Add air speed to the telemetry output

[Roons]

Just posting this here for more awareness since many don't know about adding fans that can increase immersion in flight sims. Its amazing to use them in DCS. Hopefully IL-2 will add support one day for exporting air speed to telemetry data. I use static fans right now, but the idea of feeling the true wind speed in IL-2 would be amazing!!

 

Type of improvement: Add air speed to the telemetry output for motion simulators. 

 

Explanation of proposals:  Adding the air speed of an aircraft to the telemetry output utilized by motion software such as SimTools, SimRacingStudio, and other programs would enable the use of fan kits to simulate wind. Utilizing the output per the Motion Support for IL-2 thread here, the addition of a UDP message that includes the airspeed would allow fan kits to speed up or slow down depending on the airspeed of the aircraft. Acc_x, Acc_y, and Acc_z are not able to be utilized for fan kits as those variables are utilized for XYZ movement depending on g-force. 

 

Benefits: Utilizing a fan/wind kit with motion simulators or even a static environment in VR or flat screen is incredibly immersive. Below are a couple of reviews of wind kits that are currently commercially available. Wind kits are very popular in racing sims; however, DCS, War Thunder, and even Elite Dangerous currently output speed and are amazing with a fan/wind kit. 
 

 

 

[Floppy_Sock]

Would be nice for external gauges too.

[aero-mess]

I have built the wind simulator by this video:

 

 

It is cheap and almost everyone can build that. You will get another dimension of virtual flying. For example it works nice with War Thunder and SimHub software: https://www.simhubdash.com/

 

I wanted to place a request, but I saw this thread. So you can see there is demand for this feature. Developers, can you make accessible flight data or at least connect with developers of SimHub to make these things reallity?

 

War Thunder exports these data (like API) which can be found when the game is active on http://127.0.0.1:8111/state or http://127.0.0.1:8111/indicators :

INDICATORS

altitude_10k: 9192.435547
altitude_hour: 9192.435547
altitude_min: 192.435547
aviahorizon_pitch: -14.951449
aviahorizon_roll: 0.368666
bank: 0.134459
clock_hour: 10.616667
clock_min: 37
clock_sec: 17
compass: 101.270905
flaps: 0
fuel: 319.206757
gears: 0
gears_lamp: 1
manifold_pressure: 1.287475
oil_pressure: 69.804596
oil_temperature: 69.804596
pedals1: 0.118656
pedals2: 0.118656
pedals3: 0.118656
pedals4: 0.118656
prop_pitch: 1
radiator: 0.909804
rpm: 3699.984619
speed: 78.666588
stick_ailerons: 0.003143
stick_elevator: 0.113651
supercharger: 0
throttle: 1
trimmer: 0.118998
turn: -0.001285
type: "typhoon_mk1b_late"
valid: true
vario: 17.614487
water_temperature: 113.774384
weapon2: 0
weapon3: 0

STATES
AoA, deg: 3.7
AoS, deg: -0.1
IAS, km/h: 284
M: 0.27
Ny: 0.96
RPM 1: 3700
RPM throttle 1, %: 100
TAS, km/h: 326
Vy, m/s: 17.6
Wx, deg/s: 0
aileron, %: 0
compressor stage 1: 1
efficiency 1, %: 86
elevator, %: 11
flaps, %: 0
gear, %: 0
magneto 1: 3
manifold pressure 1, atm: 1.29
oil temp 1, C: 70
pitch 1, deg: 32.8
power 1, hp: 1808
radiator 1, %: 91
rudder, %: 12
throttle 1, %: 100
thrust 1, kgs: 1301
valid: true
water temp 1, C: 114

[Floppy_Sock]

Man that would be awesome if we had access to something similar. But given what Jason said in this thread 

An API to the public is not going to happen. ?

[Roons]

1 hour ago, Floppy_Sock said:

Man that would be awesome if we had access to something similar. But given what Jason said in this thread 

An API to the public is not going to happen. ?

That is from a very old thread in 2016 and they actually now do support telemetry output as of 2019. 

Here is the main thread: 

 

We just need them to add air speed to the telemetry output along with the XYZ axis and acceleration (used for heave and surge). Air speed needs its own output for gauges and wind kits.

 

[Floppy_Sock]

I'm fairly sure that telemetry output no longer works.

 

There's a UDP output for simshaker but I'm fairly sure it's output is encrypted in some manner or at least it's output doesn't match the spec sheet that's attached in that forum thread you linked

Edited April 23, 2020 by Floppy_Sock

[Roons]

Telemetry output works. I'm using it in my DOF Reality P3 motion rig now with SimRacingStudio software. The guys at SimRacingStudio advised that 1C just needs to add air speed to their telemetry output to add fan support. It also works with SimTools. 

 

[Floppy_Sock]

Ah yes I see now that it works. Very strange. Must have been my mistake. 

[Roons]

Bump - since this is still needed for those of us using wind kits with IL-2.

[Dutch2]

Great but I do hope 1C will make it an open system so freeware like simhub can be hooked on and not only the commercial parties or hardware sponsors. 

Same btw is counting for the chair shaking telemetry. 

 

 

Edited November 30, 2020 by Dutch2