Re: Hardware cockpit instruments with round displays.
Barry Benowitz via Flightgear-devel <[email protected]> Sun, 26 Jul 2026 11:04:34 -0400 (EDT)
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--===============4764752405471856131== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_138647_236700986.1785078274522" ------=_Part_138647_236700986.1785078274522 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Flightgear supports an https interface which you can use to have a browser display the existing instruments, but I don't know if the Rasberry Pi has a built in or comes with a web browser. > On 07/26/2026 10:37 AM EDT Patrick Callahan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Has anyone done any cockpit instruments using Flightgear source materials driving 2.8" round TFT displays from raspberry pi zeros? I'm thinking in terms of a FGFS instance with no scenery, no airport, just a single instrument, driven not from the FDM, but from input fed from the main FGFS instance over USB or UDP, perhaps running independently on a Raspberry Pi Zero. Outputs for adjusting knobs back to the main fgfs via the same channel. > > -Pat > > https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256805001903002.html?spm=a2g0o.cart.0.0.491f38daKYclES&mp=1&pdp_npi=6%40dis%21USD%21USD+31.27%21USD+31.27%21%21USD+31.27%21%21%21%402103138417850754067242788e0eb6%2112000032031307056%21ct%21US%21798636471%21%211%210%21&gatewayAdapt=glo2usa > > Heading Instrument example > 1 raspberry pi zero > 1 2.8" display with hdmi board > 2 magnetic rotary encoders for Heading Bug and Card Adjust > > Is there a simpler way to drive the display than to have a full instance of flightgear running on the Pi? > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel > ------=_Part_138647_236700986.1785078274522 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!doctype html> <html> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8"> </head> <body> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif; color: #333333;"> <span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;">Flightgear supports an https interface which you can use to have a browser display the existing instruments, but I don't know if the Rasberry Pi has a built in or comes with a web browser.</span> </div> <div class="default-style" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif; color: #333333;"> </div> <div class="default-style" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif; color: #333333;"> </div> <blockquote type="cite"> <div> On 07/26/2026 10:37 AM EDT Patrick Callahan <[email protected]> wrote: </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div dir="ltr"> <div> Has anyone done any cockpit instruments using Flightgear source materials driving 2.8" round TFT displays from raspberry pi zeros? I'm thinking in terms of a FGFS instance with no scenery, no airport, just a single instrument, driven not from the FDM, but from input fed from the main FGFS instance over USB or UDP, perhaps running independently on a Raspberry Pi Zero. Outputs for adjusting knobs back to the main fgfs via the same channel. </div> <div> </div> <div> -Pat </div> <div> </div> <a href="https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256805001903002.html?spm=a2g0o.cart.0.0.491f38daKYclES&mp=1&pdp_npi=6%40dis%21USD%21USD+31.27%21USD+31.27%21%21USD+31.27%21%21%21%402103138417850754067242788e0eb6%2112000032031307056%21ct%21US%21798636471%21%211%210%21&gatewayAdapt=glo2usa">https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256805001903002.html?spm=a2g0o.cart.0.0.491f38daKYclES&mp=1&pdp_npi=6%40dis%21USD%21USD+31.27%21USD+31.27%21%21USD+31.27%21%21%21%402103138417850754067242788e0eb6%2112000032031307056%21ct%21US%21798636471%21%211%210%21&gatewayAdapt=glo2usa</a> <div> </div> <div> Heading Instrument example </div> <div> 1 raspberry pi zero </div> <div> 1 2.8" display with hdmi board </div> <div> 2 magnetic rotary encoders for Heading Bug and Card Adjust </div> <div> </div> <div> Is there a simpler way to drive the display than to have a full instance of flightgear running on the Pi? </div> </div> _______________________________________________ <br>Flightgear-devel mailing list <br>[email protected] <br>https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel </blockquote> </body> </html> ------=_Part_138647_236700986.1785078274522-- --===============4764752405471856131== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline --===============4764752405471856131== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel --===============4764752405471856131==--