New free MFD/ICP app to control Falcon BMS from touch devices
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@tdr:
Hi there, I am going to buy a tablet to use this program, but a friend of mine told me that sometime the game freeze up and he must restart the game. This is very annoying when playing online. Does anybody know if this bug has been solved and is this app for sale?
Thankstdr, think twice about Huawei if you were considering that brand. See my comments above
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As long as this is an android based OS tablet, you can still install apk packages.
Meanwhile, it is true that Huawei lost their agreement to use the google play store on the latest hardware they sell.
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Yes, that is my warning. While good hardware, one can not expect to be able to install any app available on Huawei devices for the time being. Only the ones outside the play store in the form of apk’s, so not youtube, netflix etc. So this app by Kungfoo is fine, while other regular apps are not
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What’s wrong with Huawei ??? Google play is still active - yes there were rumors last year about dropping support - but! - eye spy … there would be too great consequences for . in the long run if google would have balls for such an action … pffft - all talk
So, why not Huawei??? …2c… - I’m on Hw… MediaPad T5 AGS-L09 (with sim) 1920x1200 /3GB ram /32GB flash ~ 15-20 usable… yeah they got trash… 10GB for system??! - bullshit, but, overall “great”:headb: TAB … and octacore - not quite gaming tablet - but 60fps in TGP/WPN MFD’s is NOT A PROBLEM AT ALL (via usb cable)
Of course there are better TAB’s around - this one was cheap - and all bang for buck$
IF!! and only IF google manages their balls to even smirk on Huawei - they will L00se - in how many ways I give to your imagination … do some calcs…
-Oh and APK’s … who says they “MUST” be shared via gPlay ??? - my Goooood… :nosep:- I can’t even count how many wayS to obtain even a PRO(paid) crakced app
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I bought a new Huawei device in January and was unable to access Google Play. So every app needs to be got as an .apk. For niche use it can work. I just bought it for BMS but had an idea to use it for casual entertainment too, like Netflix and the like. No go, unless you want to spend ages on shady sites wading thru p*rn links and other nice stuff. And then log on to my account using an .apk obtained that way, I do not think so. So for a hassle-free experience, look to other brands.
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Well I bought mine less then a year, and all is GO.
… Only guess that you might be scammed or something else…
Google play is active on all huawei devices We (me and….) have, and I’m talking about more then dozen phones, including my tab.
So, or you have some branded, limited, or in any other way misconfigured device, or is pure bullshit.
There is No known Google restrictions on huawei devices (at least in Europe) till today.
You are the only one. Congratulations.
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Maybe should be better ask to the Huawei Help desk if Google Playstore is active or not.
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Well I bought mine less then a year, and all is GO.
… Only guess that you might be scammed or something else…
Google play is active on all huawei devices We (me and….) have, and I’m talking about more then dozen phones, including my tab.
So, or you have some branded, limited, or in any other way misconfigured device, or is pure bullshit.
There is No known Google restrictions on huawei devices (at least in Europe) till today.
You are the only one. Congratulations.
No he is not alone. Even in the EU any Huawei Device produced after June 2019 were delivered Google Service free. So you might have purchased a Huawei device last year with Google Services activated but that only indicates that that device was manufactured before June 2019.
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You can install this app on any device, as long as you manage to download and install an *.apk from github.
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No he is not alone. Even in the EU any Huawei Device produced after June 2019 were delivered Google Service free. So you might have purchased a Huawei device last year with Google Services activated but that only indicates that that device was manufactured before June 2019.
Look, I know that ban is not a lie , I live on planet Earth, you know. But! , we/I all have devices from inside ban period and all are working with google, and all are clean, not rooted or in any way hacked.
TLDR He clearly stated “January” , 2021? …LITERALLY 2 post above
https://www.benchmarksims.org/forum/showthread.php?41013-New-free-MFD-ICP-app-to-control-Falcon-BMS-from-touch-devices&p=566493&viewfull=1#post566493
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But to who is he doing a favor, running around telling crap that Huawei devices are not worth it ? Is he on google/trump monopoly payrollDon’t like huawei, fine , go get an ice cream , return tab to seller and ask for a google friendly-ier device…
Ok, fine whatever… I choose to sysadmin, (replace with Huawei:uham:)
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How are folks getting on with this on 4.35.1?
I started off with it under Linux and found that for whatever reason, only 2/3s of the callbacks were mapped (despite using the same key file as my Windows install…), but all is good under Windows, so happy times.
Except, it couldn’t cope with HSD and FCR (and in fact, on later testing, HSD + anything) on the screen at the same time; the app would become unresponsive for several seconds, until I got rid of the HSD.
That was with the RTTServer.ini defaults.
I’ve since had a bit of a play, and found that leaving RTTServer at the defaults (FPS=30, LIMIT_MBPS = 0) is good, and setting g_nRTTBatchExportSize to 4 in my bms.cfg makes all those issues go away. I have the app now set to 60/s refresh rate, compression = 80.
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You don’t really need to run the rtt export server for this app to work, but rather the falcon-bms-control server exe.
Also setting batch size to 4 and fps to 60 does not really make sense since your system would need to push 240fps for that to equal to 60fps updates. I’d recommend setting batch size to the default of 2 and the app to 30fps.
Callbacks under linux: probably the ones differentiating between left and right modifiers (shift, alt, ctrl). It could well be that linux treats those differently.
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for clarification: The app will always render the screen at 60fps, but it will only received updated frames of the mfds from the server. The server receives them whenever they are ready from bms and only sends a new frame if the content actually changed. With batch size 4, bms will update the rtt shared memory only every 4 frames and then from there it gets sent over the network. So setting the app refresh rate to 60 for the displays simply puts a bit more load on your pc, since it will check bms shared memory for new textures at 60fps.
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You don’t really need to run the rtt export server for this app to work, but rather the falcon-bms-control server exe.
Also setting batch size to 4 and fps to 60 does not really make sense since your system would need to push 240fps for that to equal to 60fps updates. I’d recommend setting batch size to the default of 2 and the app to 30fps.
Callbacks under linux: probably the ones differentiating between left and right modifiers (shift, alt, ctrl). It could well be that linux treats those differently.
I’m not running the rtt export server - am using the falcon BMS control server. But those changes in the main config file made a significant difference to the usability of the app; without it, I’m afraid the MFD page was unusable, as I mentioned above; having HSD on display at all left the whole thing unresponsive for many seconds at a time.
So I am confused as to why that would make any difference at all, given what you say (and you should know!) above. I didn’t make a note of all the combos I’d tried, so it might be that I skipped over 60fps in the app with batch size of 2. I’ll try it. 30fps/2 was, as I said, functionally not much different from printing out my HSD when on the runway and sticking it on top of the tablet.
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Okay, maybe what I wrote before did not actually clear things up:
- The app will render its UI at 60fps (always, unless the device is too slow)
- The RTT textures will be rendered whenever they arrive at the client (so independent of those 60 fps)
- The server will check if BMS has a new, changed texture ready at whatever interval you set in the app.
I am not sure what wifi you have and what device, but I can say that with 5ghz wifi, very close to the access point and only one hop of wifi (so the PC actually has a wired connection), it can run run at 60 fps update intervals on a relatively old iPad.
However: I myself run the refresh rate in BMS at g_nRTTBatchExportSize = 2, and then in the app I run 30 fps and a compression quality of 75. There simply is no perceivable difference between 75 and 80 and I’d rather save the bandwidth.
So to debug your issue:
- Set the refresh rate in the app to 30fps (which will cause the server to check BMS shared memory at 30fps)
- Set the compression quality to something lower like 55-60.
Does it run okay now? If yes, your wifi cannot sustain the data rate needed for the higher quality (can go as high as ~15mps, depending on what actually is on the screens).
There really isn’t much of a difference in compression artifacts between 60 and 80m, but a marked difference in data rate needed to run it. If you feel like there is too much artifacts to stomach, set the compression quality a bit higher, like maybe 70. There is a diminishing return of actual visible quality the higher you go and this is also the reason why the app does not even allow setting a higher value than 80. -
Thanks, kungfoo. I will give that a try in a mo; just having to do a full rebuild of Windows!
I have to say, that when it is working for me, this is a brilliant app (and server); kudos.
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Thanks, kungfoo. I will give that a try in a mo; just having to do a full rebuild of Windows!
I have to say, that when it is working for me, this is a brilliant app (and server); kudos.
Compression it is. Dropped it to 30fps, 50 compression, 2 on the batch, and it could just about keep up with TGP + WPN (Mav) at the same time, which seems like a pretty good test, particularly as the tablet is a very underpowered Fire 7. Thanks for your help!
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<hangs head=“” in=“” shame=“”>On my iPad Pro, it’s near native “in BMS” performance, even with TGP+WPN open. Amazing. Great work!</hangs>
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Good to hear it works for you. Of course the ipad pro is a very powerful tablet, but if you have one, why not use it.
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Good to hear it works for you. Of course the ipad pro is a very powerful tablet, but if you have one, why not use it.
I hadn’t considered that it would depend on the tablet performance. The reason to use the Fire 7 is because I want to mount it in a button box I’m making. Definitely don’t want to mount my 12.9” iPad in there!
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