STEP ONE

INSTALLING DCS-BIOS ‘FLIGHT PANELS’ FOR OPEN HORNET

DOWNLOAD or CLONE THE REPOSITORY FROM THE LINK BELOW

https://github.com/DCSFlightpanels/dcs-bios

ALSO DOWNLOAD NOTEPAD++ FROM THE BELOW LINK

IF YOU DON’T ALREADY USE IT
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/

DISCLAIMER, THIS INFORMATION WAS CORRECT IN OCT 2021, ANY CHANGES TO DCS-BIOS FLIGHT PANELS THAT OCCUR POST THIS MAY NOT HAVE
BEEN CAPTURED, THE USER SHOULD ALSO CHECK FOR REGULAR UPDATES VIA GITHUB TO DCS-BIOS FLIGHT PANELS OR THE ARDUINO LIB FILE
 STEP TWO

EXTRACT THE “dcs-bios-master” FOLDER TO A TEMPORARY FOLDER OR TO WHERE YOUR DCS

GAME DRIVE IS LOCATED, TO CREATE A LOCATION TO EXTRACT THE FLIGHTPANELS FILES FROM
DISCLAIMER, THIS INFORMATION WAS CORRECT IN OCT 2021, ANY CHANGES TO DCS-BIOS FLIGHT PANELS THAT OCCUR POST THIS MAY NOT HAVE
BEEN CAPTURED, THE USER SHOULD ALSO CHECK FOR REGULAR UPDATES VIA GITHUB TO DCS-BIOS FLIGHT PANELS OR THE ARDUINO LIB FILE
 STEP THREE

COPY DCS-BIOS
FOLDER IN THE DCS SAVED GAMES

COPY THE “DCS-BIOS” FOLDER FROM THE “dcs-bios-master/Scripts” FOLDER

TO THE “DCS/Scripts” FOLDER ON YOUR MAIN DRIVE WHERE YOUR “Saved Games” ARE
LOCATED. DO NOT COPY THE “Export.lua” FILE AT THIS STAGE, SEE THE NEXT STEP

DISCLAIMER, THIS INFORMATION WAS CORRECT IN OCT 2021, ANY CHANGES TO DCS-BIOS FLIGHT PANELS THAT OCCUR POST THIS MAY NOT HAVE
BEEN CAPTURED, THE USER SHOULD ALSO CHECK FOR REGULAR UPDATES VIA GITHUB TO DCS-BIOS FLIGHT PANELS OR THE ARDUINO LIB FILE
 STEP FOUR

USING NOTEPAD++ COPY/ADD THIS

LINE INTO THE EXISTING “Export.lua”
FILE

DO NOT USE STANDARD WINDOWS NOTEPAD

TO UPDATE “Export.lua”.

IF YOU ALREADY HAVE DCS INSTALLED THERE WILL

BE AN EXISTING FILE CALLED “Export.lua” IN THE SCRIPTS DIRECTORY
USING NOTEPAD++ COPY THE - dofile(lfs.writedir()..[[Scripts\DCS-BIOS\BIOS.lua]]) - LINE INTO
THE EXISTING “Export.lua” FILE AND RESAVE THE FILE.
DISCLAIMER, THIS INFORMATION WAS CORRECT IN OCT 2021, ANY CHANGES TO DCS-BIOS FLIGHT PANELS THAT OCCUR POST THIS MAY NOT HAVE
BEEN CAPTURED, THE USER SHOULD ALSO CHECK FOR REGULAR UPDATES VIA GITHUB TO DCS-BIOS FLIGHT PANELS OR THE ARDUINO LIB FILE
 STEP FIVE

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DISCLAIMER, THIS INFORMATION WAS CORRECT IN OCT 2021, ANY CHANGES TO DCS-BIOS FLIGHT PANELS THAT OCCUR POST THIS MAY NOT HAVE
BEEN CAPTURED, THE USER SHOULD ALSO CHECK FOR REGULAR UPDATES VIA GITHUB TO DCS-BIOS FLIGHT PANELS OR THE ARDUINO LIB FILE
 STEP SIX

CHOOSE THE “doc” FOLDER WHERE YOU COPIED THE DCS-BIOS FOLDER TO

“Saved Games\DCS\Scripts\DCS-BIOS\doc”

CLICK “Select Folder” THE PROGRAM WILL UNPACK IN THE BACKGROUND

CLOSE THE EXTENSIONS WINDOW

DISCLAIMER, THIS INFORMATION WAS CORRECT IN OCT 2021, ANY CHANGES TO DCS-BIOS FLIGHT PANELS THAT OCCUR POST THIS MAY NOT HAVE
BEEN CAPTURED, THE USER SHOULD ALSO CHECK FOR REGULAR UPDATES VIA GITHUB TO DCS-BIOS FLIGHT PANELS OR THE ARDUINO LIB FILE
 STEP SEVEN
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DISCLAIMER, THIS INFORMATION WAS CORRECT IN OCT 2021, ANY CHANGES TO DCS-BIOS FLIGHT PANELS THAT OCCUR POST THIS MAY NOT HAVE
BEEN CAPTURED, THE USER SHOULD ALSO CHECK FOR REGULAR UPDATES VIA GITHUB TO DCS-BIOS FLIGHT PANELS OR THE ARDUINO LIB FILE
 STEP EIGHT

INSTALL THE ARDUINO LIB.

IF YOU HAVE BEEN RUNNING DCS-BIOS HUB VERSION YOU WILL NEED
TO DELETE OR OVERRIDE THE EXISTING DCS-BIOS LIBRARY

ADD THE NEW LIBRARY VIA THE ARDUINO APP

FROM THE ZIP FILE IN THE “Programs” FOLDER

DISCLAIMER, THIS INFORMATION WAS CORRECT IN OCT 2021, ANY CHANGES TO DCS-BIOS FLIGHT PANELS THAT OCCUR POST THIS MAY NOT HAVE
BEEN CAPTURED, THE USER SHOULD ALSO CHECK FOR REGULAR UPDATES VIA GITHUB TO DCS-BIOS FLIGHT PANELS OR THE ARDUINO LIB FILE
 STEP NINE
DCS TO ARDUINO INTERFACE

DEPENDING HOW MANY ARDUINO’S YOUR SIMULATOR WILL RUN A SERIAL INTERFACE TO THE
COCKPIT VIA ONE OR MORE ARDUINO CONTROLLERS.

THESE CMD FILES NEED TO BE UNZIPPED AND CORRECTLY LOCATED WITHIN THE “socat” FOLDER.

LOCATE THE “socat” FOLDER INSIDE THE “Programs” DIRECTORY, AND UNZIP AND COPY ALL THE
FILES 32 BIT OR 64 BIT FILES BACK INTO THE “socat” FOLDER

COPY ALL THE FILES 32 OR 64 BIT FILES BACK INTO THE socat FOLDER

DISCLAIMER, THIS INFORMATION WAS CORRECT IN OCT 2021, ANY CHANGES TO DCS-BIOS FLIGHT PANELS THAT OCCUR POST THIS MAY NOT HAVE
BEEN CAPTURED, THE USER SHOULD ALSO CHECK FOR REGULAR UPDATES VIA GITHUB TO DCS-BIOS FLIGHT PANELS OR THE ARDUINO LIB FILE
 RUNNING DCS-BIOS (FLIGHT PANELS VERSION)

CONNECTING TO A SINGLE ARDUINO

LOCATE THE “COM PORT NUMBER” FOR THE ARDUINO CONNECTED

TO THE PC. THIS CAN BE DONE VIA THE ARDUINO APP OR DEVICE
MANAGER.

IN THE “socat” FOLDER RUN “connect-serial-port” ENTER THE COM

PORT NUMBER OF THE ARDUINO THAT YOU WITH TO CONNECT TO

THIS STEP CAN BE COMPLETED BEFORE OR WHILE RUNNING DCS, IT ENTER THE COM PORT NUMBER HERE AND PRESS ENTER
CAN ALSO BE STOPPED AND STARTED WHILE THE GAME IS ACTIVE IF
YOU WITH TO MAKE A SKETCH CHANGE.

DISCLAIMER, THIS INFORMATION WAS CORRECT IN OCT 2021, ANY CHANGES TO DCS-BIOS FLIGHT PANELS THAT OCCUR POST THIS MAY NOT HAVE
BEEN CAPTURED, THE USER SHOULD ALSO CHECK FOR REGULAR UPDATES VIA GITHUB TO DCS-BIOS FLIGHT PANELS OR THE ARDUINO LIB FILE
 RUNNING DCS-BIOS (FLIGHT PANELS VERSION)

CONNECTING TO MULTIPLE ARDUINOS

LOCATE THE “COM PORT NUMBERS” FOR THE ARDUINOS CONNECTED

TO THE PC. THIS CAN BE DONE VIA THE ARDUINO APP OR DEVICE
MANAGER.

OPEN AND EDIT THE “multi-coms-ports” FILE WITH NOTEPAD++

ENTER ALL THE ARDUINO COM PORT NUMBERS YOU WISH TO
CONNECT TO AFTER “COMPORTS=” WITH A SPACE BETWEEN. SAVE
AND CLOSE NOTEPAD++

IN THE “socat” FOLDER RUN “multi-com-ports” THE PROGRAM WILL

CONNECT THE PORTS AUTOMATICALLY, AFTER COUNTING DOWN
FROM 5 SECONDS

THIS STEP CAN BE COMPLETED BEFORE OR WHILE RUNNING DCS, IT

CAN ALSO BE STOPPED AND STARTED WHILE THE GAME IS ACTIVE IF
YOU WITH TO MAKE A SKETCH CHANGE.

DO NOT USE STANDARD WINDOWS NOTEPAD TO UPDATE THE “multi-coms-ports” FILE

DISCLAIMER, THIS INFORMATION WAS CORRECT IN OCT 2021, ANY CHANGES TO DCS-BIOS FLIGHT PANELS THAT OCCUR POST THIS MAY NOT HAVE
BEEN CAPTURED, THE USER SHOULD ALSO CHECK FOR REGULAR UPDATES VIA GITHUB TO DCS-BIOS FLIGHT PANELS OR THE ARDUINO LIB FILE
 RUNNING DCS-BIOS (FLIGHT PANELS VERSION)

DCS-BIOS CONTROL REFERENCES

EITHER TYPE chrome://apps/ INTO THE COMMAND LINE

OR
CLICK ICON

You will see the DCS-BIOS CONTROL REFERENCES ICON IN THE WINDOW

OPEN THE APP

THIS STEP CAN ONLY BE COMPLETED AS REQUIRED SELECT BETWEEN

AFTER YOU ARE IN THE DCS COCKPIT, SIMPLE – SIMPLE ARDUINO CODE REFERENCES
AND MUST BE RESTARTED EACH TIME ADVANCED – ADVANCED ARDUINO CODE REFERENCES
YOU EXIT THE ACTIVE GAME OR CLOSE SELECT F/A-18C LIVE DATA – LIVE INPUT / OUTPUT AND SIMULATOR DATA
DCS. YOU DO NOT NEED THIS APP
RUNNING TO OPERATE THE GAME
WHEN FLYING, IT IS USED TO GET
DRAFT SKETCHES, OR MONITOR
OUTPUT VALUES DURING TESTING.

DISCLAIMER, THIS INFORMATION WAS CORRECT IN OCT 2021, ANY CHANGES TO DCS-BIOS FLIGHT PANELS THAT OCCUR POST THIS MAY NOT HAVE
BEEN CAPTURED, THE USER SHOULD ALSO CHECK FOR REGULAR UPDATES VIA GITHUB TO DCS-BIOS FLIGHT PANELS OR THE ARDUINO LIB FILE