Control IL2 from android tablet

[MaD88]

Very Nice - a 1st step.
After some time we probably will have something similar to the old touchbuddy profiles or even better?!
I'd like to see this on playstore or here.

[John'Mad'Doe]

Hello

I didn't knew touch buddy but that's the same idea.

The main difference is that here the program communicates with IL2 via the devicelink procedure. It's not a keyboard emulation.

All keys are not available, only those provided by the DeviceLink. On the other hand, the program has access to the information sent by IL2: speed, heading, altitude, flap positions, ...

You can find my program for test, (it has a limited time life of about 1 month) , here: http://www.mediafire.com/?968yot5j01t9mgn

I have to find how I will make it avalaible on an android store (probably it won't be google play store)

PS: remember it's for a tablet with a resolution of 800 x 480

[MaxGunz]

This uses bluetooth or a cable?

[Pfeil]

It probably uses Wifi. Using a LAN setup is the easiest method because Devicelink communicates using UDP.

[John'Mad'Doe]

Yes , it uses WIFI

[Extreme_One]

Looks great!
I'm looking forward to the English version.

I have struggled in the past (long, long ago) to get Devicelink working so I hope there will be some good English instructions even an idiot can follow

Will it work OK on a tablet with higher resolution (mine is 1280x800) ?

[MaxGunz]

I have devices that use USB CDC (Arduino) but am network-illiterate. I need to get some other things done before going back to trying to talk devicelink with that and one of those is bluetooth module.

I have a library that's supposed to let me talk to COM with C++ and have from a member here C++ devicelink code but haven't got the time to sit and work that out -just yet maybe for weeks- and I've seen another possible path using Java. The BT does some Wifi so maybe I will have another alternate route once I get that working.

It just bothers me that CDC can set up a COM port that I can see in a console window and hyperterminal and various standard apps yet can't seem to address in a simple way like I could before XP. It's there. Windows knows it. Why should I need a library at all? I should be able to stream a COM channel that's already set up, directly!

Oh well. I'll climb that hill soon enough.

If you ever want to play with Arduino, let me know. I'll set you up with links, etc, and if I can be any help then I'll do my best there too.

[John'Mad'Doe]

My next priority will be to do the translation in english.

After , to make the application to match any size of screen it's a lot of work and it will take some time. but I will do it.


To make devicelink running is quite simple , you have to add 2 lines in the conf.ini and you have also to know the IP adress of the computer that is running IL2.

[John'Mad'Doe]

Hello

My application to manage IL2 from an android tablet (or smartphone) is now ready.

You can find it here: http://www.mediafire.com/?yzb468bjvpb77n5

If you need information to configure IL2 to allow the communication with an other device , have a look to the file named DeviceLink.txt in your IL2 folder.


John

[John'Mad'Doe]

I have updated the pictures.

As you can see it's quite different of your application.

I had plan to add some gauges , but I don't have to much time to do it , so it won't be in this version.

John