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TrackIR on linux with wine Windows emulation layer

Postby backspin » Mon Nov 30, 2020 11:15 pm

I would like to use my TrackIR hardware with FlightGear on linux and also other flight sims that run under linux/wine. I hope to find a TrackIR setup that works with all these flight sims on linux.

Thanks!
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Re: TrackIR on linux with wine Windows emulation layer

Postby Johan G » Tue Dec 01, 2020 2:46 am

Quoting myself from a related topic:
Johan G wrote in Sun Nov 29, 2020 12:09 pm:I am not sure if TrackIR5 plays well with open source software. The software seem to require the "game" to be modified using a closed source SDK, rather than using some kind of defined protocol to transfer the parameters.

There are some alternatives, that unfortunately very likely do not work with the TrackIR camera, for above reasons.

I have been using opentrack with an ArUco marker and a web cam for a couple of months and is quite pleased with that (except for that the marker have to be well lit). It can be used with 3 LEDs (possibly needing web cam modification) and some other ways as well.
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