Full G1000 control now with Mobiflight

If you run Just the Bezel with in a transparent panel you will see the title bar. If you embed the Bezel in a panel background (png) with a cutout for the G1000 screen then the panel will cover the title bar. There is no stable way that I am aware of to hide the tilebar. Yes there are utilities that can do it but the ones I tested all use the same deprecated windows technique and it caused FS2020 to crash within a few mins of operation. The Safe way to do it is as Xplane does. But FS2020 does not… Yet! As noted in @Crunchmeister71 post, locked, always on top and optionally clickthrough is the way to do it!

I do have the Desktop Scaling on my 4K monitor set to 200% but FS2020 Graphics output does not respect that and renders it natively making the screen out very small and then Fancyzones fixes that S#itshow right up :wink:

Oddly, I don’t run a background panel for my G1000 screens. I run them just on their own, and my title bars are tucked away under the bezels without issue.

This is my second screen for my C172 Classic. You can see the title bars for the GNS units as well as the AP and transponder are hidden by the bezels. And you can also see my Windows task bar at the bottom. There’s no background in this panel, just the instruments.

I’m going to buy the c172 premium panel when Air Manager 4.0 comes out and have one secondary screen with that panel and the second set up like yours.

They are wired backwards for sure and it was bugging me. I had to swap them to prevent myself learning some really bad habits.

Here’s a fixed copy of the G1000 Mobiflight instrument:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y5WqNnOAVFmv0xdGFg2e3opX4ZVQrn42/view?usp=sharing

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Thanks Man, I was testing again yesterday and worked out I had them wired backward I’ll push a new update tonight that will fix them.

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Many thanks for your hard work. I don’t know why more people aren’t using this tool, it is life changing with the mobiflight panels.

If anyone is interested, I had a bad experience using spacedesk to convert my android tablet into a monitor. I’m now using an app called superdisplay which is great but it’s not free. There are freeware tools around but I couldn’t get any to work on my finicky Amazon Fire 10" tablet.

I’d be curious in hearing the issues you had. I ran both an iPad and an old Android tablet as displays before I got my touch monitors. Never had an issue with either of them.

Yeah I’m interested in this too! I am thinking to see if I could run my MFD on my android Tablet due to to problems with Navigraph on it.

It works. In the very first iteration of my cockpit with AM, all I was using was my ancient Android tablet as a PFD and it worked fine. Then I found a reasonably priced 5th Gen iPad and that took over as my PFD, and the Android got demoted to MFD. Then the monitors came in 1 at a time, and the tablets got cycled out. I still use the iPad as a side screen for extra AM controls.

If I could find a proper spot, I’d likely still use the Android one as well. Perhaps some day when I set up my more permanent cockpit I’ll use both tablets as well.

I have downloaded the mobiflight event module to my community folder, and obtained Mr Barlow’s G1000 mobiflight G1000 bezels from Air manager. I’m running air manager 4 beta with the beta AM plugin going as well. My altitude and heading functions work with the knobster (in large increments, but i know that’s the fault of my alpha flight yoke). No other function works (nav, com, softkeys, baro). Is this just me? Any suggestions out there? Thanks in advance!

Russ Barlow’s bezels are made for XPlane. You’re lucky even those knobs work at all.

You need to download @XAxSys G1000 bezel made to work with Mobiflight here:

OK I have just uploaded ver0.03 of the panel to GitHub here:

This release fixes the FLC Nose UP DN functions that were inverted. It should now work as intended. The Logic.lua and a full .SIFF are available in the release. If you already have the FS2020 G1000 overlay then all you really need is to replace the Logic.lua file for the instrument.

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Thanks Phil. You’re a gentleman and a scholar. :slight_smile:

I’m thinking of adding a separate power cable to my Winmaxit monitors. With the usb hub powering it, the hub gets extremely hot which worries me. I am assuming that if I put a usb cable in the usb connection on the monitor labeled ā€œpowerā€, the monitor will draw it’s power from that connection.

If you don’t mind the extra cables, that’ll work just fine. Strange your hub heats up though. I just touched my hub and it feels cool. The power supply is barely warm.

Mine gets hot. It’s a different brand from yours. I’ll try the power port.

Spacedesk was really laggy and unresponsive but it’s probably just my fire tablet and not the app itself. Plus no USB connectivity option AFAIK The fire tablet has been a thorn in my backside for compatability.

I’ve found some cheap used touchscreen monitors but I’m stumped how to mount them in a way that won’t interfere with my time that isn’t spent flight simming.

OK, that’s what I suspected was the issue.

In the Spacedesk client on the tablet, go into the options. There are setting for both quality and frame rate. The default is 30 fps and it’s REALLY laggy. Set it to 60 fps, and then mess with the quality slider to get a more responsive experience.

It will never be 100% as good as a wired monitor, but it’s very usable once you’ve tweaked it. My old Lenovo tablet is about 4 years old, was already old when I bought it (new) and very obsolete, and I find it quite usable. Not as good as the faster iPad, but still acceptable for just tapping buttons.

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Is there any other panel that can be used to debug knobster issues? I found an issue with my diy knobster in sim and I see that it even happens when looking at the dial turn animation on XAxSys’s g1000 without the simulator attached. I move the dial clockwise very slowly and every so often it doesn’t move the dial or goes backwards a click. Moving counter clockwise has similar if not worse issues. Any way to check on another panel to remove software issues out of the equation? Though I haven’t read any complaints about it so it’s probably the knobster. The setting is at 2 pulses/detent which should be right. Thanks.