Controlling X-Plane 11 with Arduino & MULTIPLEXERS (Home Cockpit Build Basics) 

Many thanks Mauricio for your very kind words, much appreciated :-) I hope that you find the video useful!

Many thanks Humberto, hope the video will be of help to you with your own projects :-)

Hi Jack, many thanks for your very kind comments, they are much appreciated 😎. Also a very warm welcome to the channel! Although I have spent a lot of time working with XP11 and on occasion MSFS2020, I’m planning to start working on DCS in the near future and I’ve already purchased the F/A 18C Hornet to play about with. Hopefully videos on this to follow? If you need any assistance at any time, please let me know? Kind regards Paul 😎

Glad it was helpful and good luck with your project 😎

Hi Dan (or should that be Don??) Many thanks for your kind words, very much appreciated my friend :-) It looks as though you are about to take on quite a massive project with the TBM940 cockpit, so I hope everything progresses nicely. With regard to my multiplexer sketch code, please by all means send me your re-factored version, I'm always willing to learn new ways of doing things. As I've often said in my videos, I'm certainly not a computer programmer, but have still somehow been able to 'knife and fork' all of my codes together, simply from bits and pieces I've picked up on the interweb, so this is still all very knew to me! Kind regards and thanks again :-) Paul PS where do you live in the world, I always ask people as I like to know where they come from when communicating with them :-)

@@funofflying15 Hi Paul, My nickname is Dan. There is absolutely nothing wrong with your code, as it works! I can make it more compact and hopefully easier to read. Dan

Welcome to the channel and very good luck with you home cockpit setup :-) If you need any help, then please let me know? Kind regards Paul

@@funofflying15 Here i go with the first question. Does the code that appears in the video work for the Arduino Mega 2560?.

Hi there, the only Arduino microcontrollers that work in this way are the ones based on the ATmega32u4 with USB serial support, namely the Due, MKR, Micro and Leonardo. I have always used the Leonardo in all of my videos. Hope this helps, regards Paul 😎

Hi Andy and welcome to the channel 😎 Just to let you know however, that I am currently away on a long vacation onboard my boat, so currently do not have access to my home computer. With regard to multiplexers though, I only used a few of the available pins in the video, but you should be able to use all 16 pins (channels 0-15), with the correct code, as you say. With regard to throttle controls, I haven’t yet written code for these to work through a multiplexer, so can’t at this stage confirm if it will work? However I could easily test this when I eventually get home and will let you know then. Apologies in the meantime for the delay. Kind regards Paul 😎

Hi Danny and welcome to the channel :-) I've never personally used the SSD1306 display in any of my projects, but having looked into it, I understand that it is possible to use the display with Arduino, although I'm not sure how this could be interfaced with X-Plane? Let me do a bit more research and I'll see what I can come up with? Kind regards Paul (Bedford, UK)

@@funofflying15 Sounds great! Perhaps we can share code sometime. I'm using Teensys which have Flight sim controls plugin for x plane 11. I don't know if you've explored Teenys or not. Anyways I love the channel!

Hi Klaas, very nice to hear from you and many thanks for your kind comments :-) I will of course be producing more videos, but in the meantime, please contact me by email at funofflying@gmail.com so that I can send you the sketch code for the multiplexer video. Kind regards Paul PS Where do you live, the Netherlands possibly?

@@funofflying15 I am Dutch, but living my pension already 10 years in rural Thailand, about 700km north east from Bangkok

Hi there, I very sorry but I’m now on extended vacation onboard our boat and consequently internet access is very limited. Also, I do not have access to my home computer or any of my files. I will however be going home again for a few days in three weeks time, so I may be able to assist you then? Apologies again.

Hi there, regrettably I’m now away on long term vacation for a few months and do not have access to my files, which are on my PC at home. Apologies for this🙁

Hi there and welcome to the channel! Yes of course, I can make the sketch code available (subject to copyright), although I’m currently away from home, working on a large repainting project for my boat. This obviously means that I cannot access my PC and/or send any files to you right at the moment. When I get home in a few weeks time though, I would be happy to send you the code file then. Kind regards Paul 😎

@@funofflying15 Ok thanks Paul