FX Unleashed v0.5.1

FX Unleashed is an independent community project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or supported by Simagic. Simagic and FX Pro are trademarks of their owner, used only to say which hardware this works with. The software is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind. Use it at your own risk.

FX Unleashed 0.5.1

Updates itself from 0.5.0: the banner (or the About tab) offers it, one click installs it, Roll back is there if you want the old one.

What's new

• Custom firmware. What we called the "wheel app" is now the custom firmware, everywhere. The setup guide has the right SimPro steps
  (Settings > Update > Manual Firmware Flash, then Flash on the FX PRO row), and the plugin's own texts say the same.
• Dash designer: Wheel traffic. A new pill and tab show what your dash sends to the wheel over a demo lap: the average and busiest second
  against the screen's 25 KB/s, flashing updates, which elements send the most (click one to select it), a graph, and Fix them for text on a
  border line. The same three gates the /create-dash command uses, live while you edit. It can measure with rectangles or with the RAM patch.
• Updates. The plugin looks for updates at every start and every 6 hours while SimHub is open (it was once a day), and the update banner is shorter.
• Library.
  • The dashes library opens expanded, and a dash you already have in your folder shows as installed instead of offering Install again.
  • Screensavers have their own library on the Idle tab, also open by default, and Share... on your own screensavers packages them for the library.
  • The Package dialog asks What is it? (dash or screensaver), the submit form asks the same, and the bot checks they agree.
  • The Package dialog no longer talks about pull requests or a maintainer adding it: a package that passes the checks is published on the spot.
• SimHub device. A section brightness of 0 in SimHub now means off (it left the LEDs dimly lit). The device's mapping is tested against the wheel model.
• Lights guide. New: the FX Pro in SimHub's Devices and ATSR-Hub, with the ATSR-Hub profile to download
  (it is also in this zip, renamed for FX Unleashed inside) and where each SimHub light lands on the wheel.
• The guide. The screen check says what a green card and a solid red screen mean and where to go next; the dash button is no longer called "button 40".

Everything else is as in 0.5.0.

Requirements

SimHub 9.11 or newer, SimPro Manager 3 (V3.2.2 tested) for standard mode, an FX Pro or GT Neo. Tested by the maintainer on one FX Pro on an Alpha EVO
base: other bases, wheels and games may behave differently, so please report what you find (Discord or GitHub issues).

Install and update

From 0.5.0: let it update itself (About tab). New install: close SimHub, copy User.FXProRpmSync.dll from the zip into your SimHub folder, start SimHub,
turn the plugin on. Guide: https://fxunleashed.com/start/

Custom firmware for Unleashed mode

Unleashed mode (your own dashes, all 38 lights, the dash button) needs our custom firmware for the wheel, build 9 or newer. Standard mode needs nothing.

The whole path in one guide: fxunleashed.com/start (about 15 minutes, every step says what you should see)

1. Custom firmware: download it here and flash it with SimPro (Settings > Update > Manual Firmware Flash). Please read the short notice first: it is your wheel's own program, at your own risk, and Simagic's original is always one flash away.
2. This plugin (the zip below).
3. The screen's RAM patch (picture memory): optional, but highly recommended.
4. Your dashes and lights.