Post by miquelbb on Oct 30, 2017 14:58:15 GMT
Dear Shaul,
In the Uni Stuttgart we've got a pretty awesome FFB Joystick, 3DOF, that we intend to integrate to a spaceflight simulator for academic and research purposes. This Joystick has been developed by a company called Wittenstein and, unfortunately, it doesn't comply with any typical HID standards. By now it can't be connected to a normal Windows computer because the communication happens via TCP/IP protocols that aren't linked to any driver. My first idea was to develop a windows driver from scratch, but luckily I found your outstanding development of vJoy. I am not an experienced programmer so here I write some descriptions and guesses that might be the next steps to take:
- As you see in the attachment, the joystick communicates using TCP/IP protocols (defined by the manufacturer) and can be configurated by using a so-called Aktiv8 Toolkit that allows the user to define manually some parameters like angle limits, forces, vibrations, etc. The module SCM is an industrial computer that controls the motors and drivers of the actual joystick and communicates with the exterior.
- My goal is to develop a connection that allows us to connect this joystick with the Ethernet cable to a computer, but still being able to use it as a standard FFB Joystick. Therefore vJoy is so useful, because it opens up the possibility of creating a virtual joystick which actually communicates with the SCM used as feeder.
- My guess is that with the vJoy Feeder SDK I can code an application that allows me to communicate with the Joystick, still using vJoy so that I don't have to program a whole driver.
how feasible do you think it is?
Do you have any recommendations on that matter?
Looking forward to all the community's answers
Thank you!
Miquel
In the Uni Stuttgart we've got a pretty awesome FFB Joystick, 3DOF, that we intend to integrate to a spaceflight simulator for academic and research purposes. This Joystick has been developed by a company called Wittenstein and, unfortunately, it doesn't comply with any typical HID standards. By now it can't be connected to a normal Windows computer because the communication happens via TCP/IP protocols that aren't linked to any driver. My first idea was to develop a windows driver from scratch, but luckily I found your outstanding development of vJoy. I am not an experienced programmer so here I write some descriptions and guesses that might be the next steps to take:
- As you see in the attachment, the joystick communicates using TCP/IP protocols (defined by the manufacturer) and can be configurated by using a so-called Aktiv8 Toolkit that allows the user to define manually some parameters like angle limits, forces, vibrations, etc. The module SCM is an industrial computer that controls the motors and drivers of the actual joystick and communicates with the exterior.
- My goal is to develop a connection that allows us to connect this joystick with the Ethernet cable to a computer, but still being able to use it as a standard FFB Joystick. Therefore vJoy is so useful, because it opens up the possibility of creating a virtual joystick which actually communicates with the SCM used as feeder.
- My guess is that with the vJoy Feeder SDK I can code an application that allows me to communicate with the Joystick, still using vJoy so that I don't have to program a whole driver.
how feasible do you think it is?
Do you have any recommendations on that matter?
Looking forward to all the community's answers
Thank you!Miquel
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