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General Category => General Discussions => Topic started by: bredita on November 19, 2011, 01:27:02 pm

Title: Screen Feature request + a couple of issues
Post by: bredita on November 19, 2011, 01:27:02 pm

Hi,

I received my GI-max, SPI-d, Pro Shift and SimScreen this weekend, and have it all set up and working. Great products!

I'm trying to make a lap time (last lap) graph and a position graph (I'm using iRacing).
It would be very useful to be able to plot a new data point on the graph whenever the value changes - instead of doing it every X milliseconds.
Is this possible to include in a future version?

A couple of SimScreen issues:

- It seems like the fuel in liters is different from the fuel in liters reported by iRacing. Are you converting from gallons to liters? Are you using US or UK gallons for the conversion?

- I am not able to graph the last lap time - no matter what I do I don't get anything in the graph.

Thanks,

bredo

Title: Re: Screen Feature request + a couple of issues
Post by: Cristiano on November 20, 2011, 06:37:02 pm

Hello.

Thank you for your suggestion. I think plotting a new graph point only when the values changes is possible. I will investigate that further.

I will also double check the fuel conversion.

Regard the last lap time, are you trying to plot the lap time on a x-y chart? because I don't think it is possible.
if you just display it, is it displayed correctly?

thanks
Cristiano

Title: Re: Screen Feature request + a couple of issues
Post by: bredita on November 20, 2011, 07:40:19 pm

Quote from: Cristiano on November 20, 2011, 06:37:02 pm

Hello.

Thank you for your suggestion. I think plotting a new graph point only when the values changes is possible. I will investigate that further.

I will also double check the fuel conversion.

Regard the last lap time, are you trying to plot the lap time on a x-y chart? because I don't think it is possible.
if you just display it, is it displayed correctly?

thanks
Cristiano

Hi,

Thanks for your fast reply :)

Yes, the last lap time displays fine when I print it as text.
When I assign the same data source to a X/Y chart I get nothing - just a blank graph with the X/Y lines.

(I tried both bar and line charts - also tried different update intervals - anything from 1 to 60 seconds)

I was hoping the "last lap time" that you read from the iRacing was just a large number ("last lap in milliseconds" or something like that).
It would ofcourse be a silly number to read, but plotting it on an auto-scaling graph would look OK - and it would be perfect if combinded with a "plot only when data changes". Then I could make 3-5 pixels wide bars on the chart and each bar would be one lap's time.

It's not important to me, I am more than happy with what I have now (That shift light is extremely useful, and the gear indicator has prevented 90% of the "downshifts to 1st" that has ruined several of my previous races :)))

Bredo


 

Title: Re: Screen Feature request + a couple of issues
Post by: Cristiano on November 21, 2011, 02:17:17 pm

Hello.
The lap time is not plotted because it is not a numeric value, it's a string of text.

What I am going to do is to add the lap time as a numeric value, expressed in seconds or milliseconds, so it can be plotted on a chart.

I will also add an option to add a new point in the chart only when the plotted value changes.

Cheers
Cristiano

Title: Re: Screen Feature request + a couple of issues
Post by: bredita on November 21, 2011, 10:19:32 pm

Great! fantastic service :)

I also have a dream about injecting my own number (for example # of unread emails) into the screen somehow, but thats far too much to ask.