FX Unleashed v0.7.2

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 0.7.2

Updates itself from 0.5.x, 0.6.x and 0.7.x: 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

• Simagic FX support. The FX (not the FX Pro) joins the FX Pro and the GT Neo, in USB mode, with its stock firmware: nothing to
  flash. Update it to app 1.3.5 in SimPro if it runs an older one, plug its USB cable into the PC, and the plugin drives all 20 of its
  lights when a game runs:
  • the 12 button lights, the rings of the three dials and the 5 rev lights, with every light preset;
  • each car's own shift lights on the 5 rev lights (they fill in the car's own steps and are full exactly at its shift point, in its
    colours), plus the pit limiter, alerts, the spotter (each side's buttons and dial) and sleep;
  • the lights use the wheel's own 8 colours, with one brightness for the whole wheel;
  • buttons that never stick: the FX's stock firmware can stop sending its buttons now and then, until it's powered off. While the
    plugin drives the wheel, it notices within a second and starts them again.
    The settings pages show the FX, traced from Simagic's picture, with its buttons named. The FX and the FX Pro look the same to the PC;
    the plugin tells them apart by themselves.
• Shift lights without SimPro. In USB mode, each car's real shift lights no longer need SimPro running with a wheel in it (before,
  without SimPro every car fell back to the preset's pattern). Only the "your SimPro preset" pattern still reads SimPro.
• More than two wheels. With several wheels connected, the wheel chip at the top steps through them; "Copy to another wheel" on the
  Lights tab offers each of them.

The FX in standard mode keeps SimPro's own lights: per-car lights on the FX are in USB mode.

Everything else is as in 0.7.1.

Requirements

SimHub 9.11 or newer, SimPro Manager 3 (V3.2.2 tested) for standard mode, an FX Pro, GT Neo or FX. Tested by the maintainer on one FX Pro
on an Alpha EVO base. FX support is new and not yet tried on a wheel by the plugin: its lights and buttons were mapped with an FX
owner, everything else is checked offline. Please report what you find (Discord or GitHub issues).

Install and update

From 0.5.x, 0.6.x or 0.7.x: 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.