by dhudach » Sun Jun 23, 2019 2:31 pm
I may be taking the 'scenic' route to explain this .... But, my goal is to implement numerous instruments in webpanel for the SenecaII. I currently have fgpanel set up with quite a few instruments and I want to see if I can get the same instruments and behavior on webpanel. For the SenecaII, there are only a few instruments implemented in the webpanel directory, pretty much enough to demonstrate the capability of webpanel: AI,ALT,ASI,HSI,RPM,TC,VSI. I'm starting off looking at some of the other instruments used in the SenecaII panel, adf, clock and others that are in Aircraft/Instruments-3d.
The short answer is that I'm not exactly sure which ones I want to implement. As I work my way through it could be any or almost all of the ones on the panel. I'm currently working on the manifold pressure gauge. I started with the rgb images, converted them to svg and am using inkscape to create the needles. If I can get this working in webpanel, it lays the foundation for me to do others. And so at this point, I'm ok if I can't convert .ac to .svg. But it would be nice to be able to open up the .ac file to see what it looks like much the same way I have the manifold pressure gauge rgb file open as a reference as I work on the .svg.
The goal is to use fgpanel or webpanel to render my cockpit instruments, most likely using Raspberry Pi. Webpanel is an attractive solution because it doesn't force me to build fgpanel on the Pi device and configuration and layout can occur within FG rather than dropping configuration files onto the Raspberry Pi for fgpanel changes.
Ok, I guess that really wasn't the short answer ... !!
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