Connecting DCS BIOS to the ios application via the WebSocket server

[WiNkY51]

Bios does not respond to udp requests from the server, when I try to make changes to Export.lua, the utility stops working, how can I configure the utility so that I can transmit requests and receive data using my server?

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[charliefoxtwo]

You can configure the tcp and udp connections for bios in BiosConfig.

The udp server in bios is not set up to handle the websocket protocol. It is not a websocket server. It just blindly broadcasts data over udp multicast to anyone listening. There is no handshake, heartbeat, or anything else.

[WiNkY51]

I know this, I don't understand in what format to send requests to dcs bios and how to configure the configuration correctly, I set up my server on Python, which makes an appeal through the udp protocol, but there is no reaction.

[WiNkY51]

Is it even possible to control the plane through the application and not the arduino?

[charliefoxtwo]

Yes, it's possible - see Bort as an example of this.

UDP by definition will not respond to any packet sent. Again, there's no handshake. You just send packets into the void, and the server may or may not receive it. If you want a handshake, I'd suggest using TCP instead.

You can read more about the protocol in the Developer Guide

[WiNkY51]

I connected via the tsp protocol and receive binary data, how can I control the helicopter or is it possible only through the udp protocol?

[charliefoxtwo]

https://github.com/DCS-Skunkworks/dcs-bios/blob/main/Scripts/DCS-BIOS/doc/developerguide.adoc#the-dcs-bios-import-protocol

e.g. MASTER_ARM 1\n to turn on a switch called MASTER_ARM. You can use Bort to figure out what values to send and what the control names are.

[WiNkY51]

I can't send commands to dcs bios via udp protocol

[WiNkY51]

I connected via the tsp protocol and receive binary data, how can I control the helicopter or is it possible only through the udp protocol?

[WiNkY51]

Hooray! Dcs reacts to commands from the tablet, now I do not understand how to decrypt the transmitted binary data to read the state of the switches and put them on the screen, I apologize for such a lack of understanding and I am very grateful for your explanation!

[charliefoxtwo]

Again, it's all in the developer guide linked above. You can also see this example I wrote in C# or, since you're using Python, perhaps check out this example of reading dcs-bios data in Python.