Programmatic access to ship temperature and other telemetry

[gid]

After absent-mindedly fuel scooping a little too aggressively, I'd really like to rig up some LED strips around my monitor so an ambient red glow starts to form in the room when the ship gets hot. The electronics should be easy: a simple Arduino thing rigged up with a metre or so of LED strip. All it would require is the capability to extract some simple telemetry from the game app in real time. Any thoughts on whether this is possible with the existing game, or if it could be added? It's just a integer, so I can't imagine it'd be hard to code in.

Some other telemetry could be handy too, opening up the possibility of external dashboard gauges and dials, either in hardware or possibly as a tablet app. Anyway, in the meantime, I'd settle for just the temperature data. Maybe the LEDs could be replaced by a powerful electric heater... hmm.

 

[nightsmoke]

A lot of us would like to see stuff like this in addition to access to motion data (3 dimensional G forces, etc) and tactile feedback data (vibrations from the engine or weapons or being hit or crashing) so motion platform developers can tap into it... It can't be too much work from the Frontier side, they just have to allow reading of some numeric variables the game is already dealing with.