Multiple displays on Simhub or DashPanel

[NetLawMan]

Hi.
these little USB monitors are terrific. I have built a great custom speedometer in DashPanel. I would like to add a few more to show other Telemetry data. I can’t figure out how to have multiple monitors in Simhub or DashPanel. Any help would be appreciated.

thx.

 

[NetLawMan]

To clarify the question, can I have two or more telemetry driven screens at the same time?

 

[Michael Krone]

Yea its possible. How are you connecting them? Wifi?

I have 3 running on wifi. All you have to do is input your IP info.

Sometimes you have to get your ipconfig data from command prompt.

 

[Pyrofrog]

Hello,

What kind of USB screens are you using?
If they are the kind that simply extend your desktop or USBD480 you can launch multiple DashPanel instances.
See this guide:

Steam Community :: Guide :: Multiple instances

Steps for running multiple instances on PC...

steamcommunity.com

PFS

 

[Michael Krone]

Yea wow im blind, sry.

 

[NetLawMan]

Hello,

What kind of USB screens are you using?
If they are the kind that simply extend your desktop or USBD480 you can launch multiple DashPanel instances.
See this guide:

Steam Community :: Guide :: Multiple instances

Steps for running multiple instances on PC...

steamcommunity.com

PFS

Hi. They are usb-c displays. I could change if that would help. It just seems like perhaps the usbd480 stuff is fairly old tech. I am happy to hear advice. What if each screen had a raspberry pi, so it could do its own processing?

 

[NetLawMan]

So I have both windows arm and rasbianOS (Linux) on different raspberry Pi based lcds. It would be great to understand my dashpanel or other options in terms of multiple screens showing different data. Note that while I could easily connect these via usb-c or HDMI’s to my gaming rig, I am hoping this is a better option to avoid a hit to my gaming fps. This is especially the case given the fact that simhub and Dashpanel both connect to the client “screens” via network anyway (typically 127.0.0.1).

 

[Pyrofrog]

So I have both windows arm and rasbianOS (Linux) on different raspberry Pi based lcds. It would be great to understand my dashpanel or other options in terms of multiple screens showing different data. Note that while I could easily connect these via usb-c or HDMI’s to my gaming rig, I am hoping this is a better option to avoid a hit to my gaming fps. This is especially the case given the fact that simhub and Dashpanel both connect to the client “screens” via network anyway (typically 127.0.0.1).

For DashPanel the only option is to connect them to the main rig.
I've looked into running on Raspberry Pi but Unity doesn't currently offer any way to build for Linux on ARM CPU so out of luck there.

Running two local DashPanel clients at 640x480 on my PC is using about 1-2% CPU and 1-2% GPU while running Assetto Corsa so the performance hit is as minimal as possible.

Running on:
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz 4.00 GHz
MSI GTX 970

I would advise to run it that way with the DashPanelServer option to set the games priority to Above Normal. This would ensure the game gets all the resources it needs with only the spare capacity going to the dashboards.

Obviously offloading the rendering to a phone or tablet will work better as the server usually shows 0-0.1% CPU usage.

Good luck

 

[NetLawMan]

I ran into OS issues and decided to try Samsung Tab 7 lites instead. I will give it a shot this weekend and let you know.

 

[Pyrofrog]

I looked into the Raspberry Pi issue again and one work around could be to run Android on the Pi.
No idea if the app will work and it certainly doesn't look trivial to get everything going with Google Play but it could be an option to look at:

https://raspberrytips.com/android-raspberry-pi-4/

 

[NetLawMan]

Ok. For now sticking with android tablets. Thank you.