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I believe you can now use System.IO.Ports to use the SerialPort, instead of using an external library.

More info: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.ports.serialport%28vs.90%29.aspx

CurrentStage and TotalStage are always calculated to be 0 and 1 respectively, no matter what vessel is loaded.

ControlPacket.mode doesn't seem to work.

Looking through code, I cant find a reference where it is used.

yikes the issue ran away before I finished typing...

Various of the VesselData members store values represented in seconds. Unfortunately they use various data formats:

• TAp (long)
• TPe (long)
• period (long)
• MissionTime (UInt32)
• deltaTime (float) - I understand the need for this one to be different
• MNTime (UInt32)

While it's not a big deal it makes writing a function that converts seconds to a readable time format (array-of-char) a bit more cumbersome. Maybe you could change that in a future version.

Whenever using the Time Warp feature to speed up the time in KSP, the plugin would also speed up the serial refresh rate (i.e on 2x time warp the plugin would send the data twice as fast).

It might have something to do with by using Unity's Time.time (which is scalable by Time.timeScale) instead of i.e Time.realtimeSinceStartup.

if ((Time.time - lastUpdate) > refreshrate && KSPSerialPort.Port.IsOpen)
{
lastUpdate = Time.time;

Time-realtimeSinceStartup

The VesselData.MNDeltaV member displays the total amount of deltaV required for a maneuver node.

Is this on purpose? I believe remaining deltaV for a maneuver node will be much more useful.

In relation to that, there doesn't seem to be a member "MNDuration" or something like that which contains the seconds required to execute a maneuver node. Is something like that planned?

If I clic on the RCS ingame button, it turns on of course, but then I can no longer use the arduino button to turn it on/off. And if I clic on it again, it turns off, and then I can use the arduino button again to control it.

Made a short video to show you what it does : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3OvMLiDWco

I think this comes from the following lines (starting at 1081) :

if (KSPSerialPort.VControls.RCS != KSPSerialPort.VControlsOld.RCS) { ActiveVessel.ActionGroups.SetGroup(KSPActionGroup.RCS, KSPSerialPort.VControls.RCS); KSPSerialPort.VControlsOld.RCS = KSPSerialPort.VControls.RCS; //ScreenMessages.PostScreenMessage("RCS: " + KSPSerialPort.VControls.RCS.ToString(), 10f, KSPIOScreenStyle); }

Hi,

This plugin looks amazing! Can you break out the Serial code into a interface so I can attempt rigging a *nix compatible serial controller?

/K

It is not clear to me how to install this mod and there doesn't seem to be any documentation

Not an issue, but I just found this thread:
http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/107815-Arduino-Direct-Serial-communications-working!-MAC-*NIX-and-possibly-WIN

Might be worth testing and starting a collaboration with.