Phi

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Background

It runs on any device that has a web browser. So yes, if your FlightGear computer can run Firefox, Opera or alike you can run it on the same computer, too. It is not related to the "classical" way of rendering instruments within flightgear, so everything in this area works as before. Probably a video is more descriptive, here is a shot of an earlier (incomplete) version: http://youtu.be/sYM7uiWIprc You can see a FlightGear instance on the top right of the big monitor and Firefox on the left showing the EFIS. Both run on the same computer. Below the monitor are an old iPod touch (left) and a Nexus 7 (right), both running the EFIS as a web-app in full screen mode connected over WLAN. The EFIS in the FlightGear window is based on Canvas/Nasal. The other EFISes are 100% Nasal free, just HTML/SVG/CSS/JavaScript — Torsten Dreyer (2014-09-17). Re: [Flightgear-devel] Goodbye fgpanel - hello fgpanel 2.0. (powered by Instant-Cquotes)

Torsten Dreyer (2015-02-04). [Flightgear-devel] Introducing Phi - a multiplatform user interface & instructor station.

The design pattern is based on MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel). Communication with the flightgear instance is through AJAX calls and a websocket for realtime updates of property changes. It is web-app capable so you can not only run it on your mobile device but also install it to it's home screen and run it without the browser decoration. It prefers screen sizes of at least 7" (looks OK on Nexus 7 and good on iPad - looks crappy on a Nexus 4 or the iPod - looks fantastic on a 27" retina iMac). I'll try to get this into a stable and usable state during this release cycle to have a functional version for the release of 3.6 in summer this year. Feedback and comments are welcome, co-workers are more than welcome ;-) — Torsten Dreyer (2015-02-04). [Flightgear-devel] Introducing Phi - a multiplatform user interface & instructor station. (powered by Instant-Cquotes)

Web-based EFIS

for a long time, I have been dreaming of a cross-platform, simple solution to render 2d panels on a remote device. I have just succeeded with my first partial implementation of a EFIS PFD rendered in a web browser using nothing but existing web standards and a running FlightGear instance having the internal web server enabled. — Torsten Dreyer (2014-09-17). [Flightgear-devel] Goodbye fgpanel - hello fgpanel 2.0. (powered by Instant-Cquotes)

The EFIS is created from scalable vector graphics (svg), is animated by JavaScript and driven by properties from FlightGear over websockets. The same svg files that are used for the FlightGear internal canvas based instruments can also be used for the browser based display, so both instruments (that of the 3d model and that in your browser) look 100% alike. Websocket properties are exchanged at frame rate making animations as smooth as they can get. Because it uses SVG, instruments are always rendered at the highest available resolution of the device without scaling artefacts. — Torsten Dreyer (2014-09-17). [Flightgear-devel] Goodbye fgpanel - hello fgpanel 2.0. (powered by Instant-Cquotes)

Torsten Dreyer (2014-09-17). [Flightgear-devel] Goodbye fgpanel - hello fgpanel 2.0.

If you want to give it a try, make sure you have fg and fgdata from latest git HEAD. Clone my ZivkoEdge repository from git@...:t3r-fg-ac/zivkoedge.git, add the folder to your --fg-aircraft option, fire up the Edge and pick "EFIS" from the "EDGE" menu item. As always: feedback is welcome. — Torsten Dreyer (2014-09-17). [Flightgear-devel] Goodbye fgpanel - hello fgpanel 2.0. (powered by Instant-Cquotes)

Why Phi ?

Torsten Dreyer (2015-02-04). [Flightgear-devel] Introducing Phi - a multiplatform user interface & instructor station.