FlightGear TQPanel

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FlightGear TQPanel
Started in 02/2014
Maintainer(s) repository
Contributor(s) pommeschanke
Status Under active development as of 02/2013

Pommesschranke started a python/kivy app that I plan to use to control FlightGear aircraft.

This is done with 83 lines of Kivy Code (*.kv) and one PNG made with gimp. This is multi-touch, so you can move each throttle alone or both together using 2 fingers. Kivy apps run on Linux, Windows, Mac, android, iOS

About "FGPanel without FG" I just had another Idea: Use the Blender game engine and blenderplayer - then I could use the original 3D models which are also used inside Flightgear. Just like the kivy app this would run on Platforms that can't run Flightgear like Raspberry Pi and Android for example.

With my kivy TQ I can now control flaps, speed brakes and 2 x throttle. I developed and tested on Linux and it runs without changes on Android.

Installation & Setup

Todo

  • some python code that talks UDP and/or Telnet with FlightGear
  • add more buttons and switches
  • make everything look more real

although it is not a hardware TQ I think it will be more fun to use than the keyboard. And it will be nice to have visual indicators for the position of speed brakes, throttle, flaps, gear