Showing off new features for my home cockpit: Priority alerts, sounds and more status indicators

This uses my X4-SimPit extension for X4: Foundations, that sends ship telemetry via a socket to my node-red plumbing pipeline, which in turn forwards data to Websockets, SocketIO and MQTT. Various subscriber listen on the new messages to run blinken lights and my HUD app. I’m using the well known message format also used by Elite Dangerous so it’s compatible with that game as well.

Pick your poison: https://makertube.net/w/nUoG2ZPeAW1QhT3A2BXRrM / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp1PkVhH9cc

Oh yeah… and on Linux PC

Let me know what you think!

X4-SimPit code (pending changes) is here: https://github.com/bekopharm/x4-simpit
The cockpit panel has a dedicated project page here: https://simpit.dev/

https://beko.famkos.net/2025/03/12/showing-off-new-features-for-my-home-cockpit-priority-alerts-sounds-and-more-status-indicators/

Pluto TV started airing episodes of the original Battlestar Galactica recently, so I've been on a kick. Here's a Cylon! #battlestargalactica #pixelart

Dr. Erin Macdonald, science consultant for Star Trek, joins Vera Wylde and @jessiegender on the Frak This podcast to discuss #BSG's first proper episode, 33. https://councilofgeeks.libsyn.com/frak-this-podcast-3-33

Oh wow. Baz has a new video on his 1:1 DIY Colonial Viper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kB9ErWMM7Tk

Watching #BattlestarGalactica (new series) season 2 finale. As the army of #DARPA bots (#Elon's army) marches onto #NewCaprica! Ugh! Too close to home?

Happy Birthday to Dirk Benedict. Hard to believe (at least it is for me), but Starbuck is 80 yahrens old today!

#bgstatsapp #boardgame grid for February 2025

A few #boardgames were brought out after 10+ years to see if they still work. Hamburgum and Redneck Life still hit the spot for vastly different reasons.

The cylons are on a winning steak in #battlestargalactica. Time to tweak our house rules in favour of the humans? Too soon to tell tbh. BSG is still a fun and challenging game after 1000+ plays.
#sosayweall

Some Battlestar related art.

Enjoy.

Some Battlestar related art.

Enjoy.

Some Battlestar related art.

Enjoy.

How to enrage* nerds.

Step 1, attached.

There is no Step 2.

* Or perhaps amuse.

#humor #startrek #starwars #firefly #stargate #dune #spaceballs #battlestargalactica
#scifi #DoctorWho

Don't tell anyone, but I just got a little choked up when #Starbuck made it back home. #BattlestarGalactica #BSG

Somedays you just want to render huge images of the mighty Galactica. #Lightwave3d #BattlestarGalactica #scifi

Meme liberated from Facebook.

#BattlestarGalactica, #Meme

Some Battlestar related art.

Enjoy.

God! I love complicated launch sequences for weapons in sci-fi. Currently watching #BattlestarGalactica for the first time and the sequence for firing the nuclear missiles from the Galactica is sooooo good. How Captain Adama has to give the command to load the missiles into the tubes. Ltd Gator has to open each tube with a physical knob. There is a separate button to prime the warheads. Captain and first officer both have to enter their launch codes and a physical key must be inserted. And after all that you can finally launch a nuke.

I am reminded of the ship "Battlestar Galactica" in the show #BattlestarGalactica, which survived an all-out attack on our humanity by disconnecting from the other networks -- and only staying connected where it counts.

If You Know You Know #IYKYK
Focus your connections -- get Secure.

The Fleet Scouts made it to the core of a Cylon Basestar, only to find a dying AI whose demise will trigger a ship-wide self-destruct. Now they have to flee, only an open door and catwalk beyond reveals a trio of Mark 1 Centurions waiting!

They've also learned that the Cylons use organic brains to help them jump, thus explaining why there were comatose humans in a storeroom and a brain floating in a large globe with star system graphics all around it.