Thanks rich. ...that was the vid that inspired me to order the parts....that was 3 weeks ago but still not delivered. Hopefully not too much longer to wait
Got around to assembling mine today and the display is dead. bummer. The Arduino works though so I'll reorder the display.
Well, I cant get this working. The arduino seems to work, and the software has installed okay....it connects to rf2 but no lights are showing on the LED board, not having any of it. So, Ive downloaded dash meter pro for my tablet. Installed in minutes and didnt take 4 weeks to get delivered
I fluffed up in the video, the Arduino sketch doesn't work with that wiring picture. I have put an annotation and a link in the video pointing to a download for a revised Arduino sketch that you need to load on to your Arduino device. Hopefully it works, it has with me and three others. I'm really sorry https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23109749/sketch_TM1638v1_1.zip
Big "Thank You" to Rich Goodwin for hanging in there and helping me get this done. I actually thought my display was dead. I'm 'stoked' and loving it. @Andy...try it again, you won't regret it. There are also differences in pin out designations depending on who's sketch is used. Bottom line: If you use Rich's wiring layout...use Rich's Arduino sketch. Pin7 & Pin9 are inverted between Rich's sketch and those found at batrako-blogspot. Pin9 is also switched to STB0 in Rich's wiring as opposed to STB1 at batrako-blogspot. If you decide to assembled it, you'll need to fully load rFactor (i.e...Your car ontrack). Once there, you need to turn on the display by either pressing button S7 (On/Fuel) or S8 (On/Gear+Speed). S1 turns off the display when on track only.
View attachment 13791 View attachment 13792 I did a bit more research and found that the pin-outs on the diagram at blogspot vary just a bit from what was posted. Power and ground are the same for either diagram, regardless of if you use Rich's (Pitlanes) or Ivan's (blogspot). The connections which I found to work for the dash released by Ivan... Pin#7 from Arduino must attach to pin STB0 at the display. Pin#8 from Arduino must attach to pin DI0 at the display. Pin#9 from Arduino must attach to pin CLK at the display. It worked perfectly for me in Rfactor and AC. It still needs a new plugin for any version of RF2 using 64 bit. I've yet to get it working in PCARS, which is not a big deal as I hardly use that game.
Does anyone develop more of this dashboard thing? I've got the hardware...and it's working...but only can see [1] Gear and Speed + [2] Fuel does anyone developed the DLL file to give more info to dashboard?
