SimDeck by Jad Berro

Drives home-cockpit instrument panels from Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. One Windows service reads the sim and streams values over Wi-Fi to small ESP32 panels that each draw one instrument. First instrument: the Airbus A320 accumulator / brake pressure triple indicator, from the Fenix A320.

Building or using it? Read START-HERE.md.

Taking over development? Read HANDOVER.md, then docs/decisions.md. Those two are the whole context.

Documentation

HANDOVER.md	picking the project up cold: state, pitfalls, next work
START-HERE.md	build, install, connect, find variables
docs/architecture.md	how the pieces fit, and the one rule that matters
docs/protocol.md	the wire format, byte by byte
docs/decisions.md	why things are the way they are - read before changing anything odd
docs/hardware.md	the panel board, its wiring, and instrument dimensions
docs/artwork.md	how the face and geometry are produced
docs/simconnect.md	reading LVARs directly, and the measurements that led there
docs/sharing.md	giving a build to someone else
docs/troubleshooting.md	by symptom
docs/status.md	what works, what does not, what is next
docs/history/	superseded designs, kept for the reasoning they record

Layout

src/        SimDeck.Core (engine, cross-platform) and SimDeck.App (WPF)
tests/      83 checks, no test framework needed: dotnet run --project tests/SimDeck.Core.Tests
installer/  Inno Setup script
firmware/   ESP32 client library and the first panel sketch
artwork/    face extraction, geometry measurement, calibration renders
fonts/      Routed Gothic (OFL)
lib/        native SimConnect.dll, copied beside the exe at build
bench-tools/ Python reference hub, same protocol byte-for-byte
tools/      preflight.py - stands in for the compiler on non-Windows machines

Licence

Code: MIT (see LICENSE). Routed Gothic: SIL OFL 1.1 (fonts/LICENSE.md). SimConnect.dll is Microsoft's, from the MSFS SDK - check its terms before public redistribution. The dial artwork is the author's.