Storm of War:Battle of Britain - DevicLink Improvements

[FCIProject]

Hello

First of all I would like to thank Oleg and his team who added the DeviceLink Protocol to IL2. Over the last three years I have used this interface to learn Java and create the FCIProject software; http://www.ge-tec.co.uk/FCIProject/ Progressively sophisticated versions of my software has helped me develop my Java skills further and further.

With the up and coming release of Storm of War: Battle of Britain I am hoping there will be improvements and additions to the DeviceLink Protocol. My main hope is the removal of the restriction on using the protocol while flying online.

There are a other changes I would like to see with DeviceLink;

1) Instead of 'toggling' the state of parameters, such as the engines, it would be useful to be able to set the state on On or Off. And be able to interrogate the state of parameter. This is the other most important change I would like to see.

2) The data for the Vertical Speed Indicator should be representative of the virtual VSI. At the moment it is not and I have to 'smooth out' the telemetry. This is the same for the Slip/Turn coordinator.

3) The fuel level never goes down when reading the value from DeviceLink.

4) The fuel mixture settings are completely missing and need adding.

5) A better way of representing the time data (20) should be found. The current way seems incorrect (or I haven't figured it out properly).

There are two new sets of telemetry values I would like; Force Feedback levels and sound levels, split into separate channels. These telemetry values would be useful for motion platform systems, such as gSeat-2;

http://ge-tec.dyndns.org:8080/UKCock...s/show/11.page

I will add other enhancements and additions to this post. If anyone has used the DeviceLink Protocol and would like to add their own requirements, please do so.

I trust Oleg and his team will look at these changes to DeviceLink and add them to Battle of Britain