I started down the rabbit hole of planning a home cockpit. I’m stuck at how to plan the video conections, maybe someone can help me to understand the options and the ideal.
I plan on having 3 main screens (32" at 2K) - this part I have figured out, with a good GPU…
But I also want to build a cockpit, for example the C170 with physical PFD and MFD screens, which would be 2 small 14 inch screens mounted with Arduinos to wire the buttons, and HDMI connections from the video controller to … the computer …
Where I’m stuck is, do the cockpit screens need to be on the GPU, or can they run fine if the motherboard has several HDMI ports that use the integrated graphics of the CPU? Or… should I plan on a 2nd (lower cost) GPU with a handful of HDMI ports for this purpose?
Like this one, which once you’ve built it, connects with an HDMI for video, and USB for all the control buttons and knobs:
I would love to build a Longtitude cockpit, that would require:
- PFD (HDMI)
- MFD (HDMI)
- 2 or 3 GTC touch controllers, which I supposed could be iPad mini or another touch screen… I don’t quite understand the ideal way to plan the connections for all this. A bit daunting.
If money was no object (it is, but I like to start with understanding the best first), what is the ideal way to design this?
Thanks in advance.