One page in SimHub, eight inside it
The plugin adds OpenDash to SimHub’s left menu. Behind it is a sidebar, one page per thing on the rig, and a search box that finds any setting by name. Nothing has to be set up to work; this is where you change what each screen shows.
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Home What needs fixing, what each device is showing right now, brightness and night mode.
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Rig Every screen, strip and matrix as a tile laid out like your rig, and the Preview chips that paint a flag, the spotter or the pit lane on all of them at once.
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Screens One card per screen. The selected one is drawn live by SimHub’s own renderer and set up on a picture of itself.
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LEDs One card per strip, its shape, effects and colours, and Lovely Car Data under Every strip.
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Matrix The flag box profile, one card per matrix, and the priority of what it shows.
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Shortcuts Every action a wheel button can be bound to, in one list: each screen’s zones and quick glance, the lights, the alerts.
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Settings What is the same on every screen: race data, flags, alerts, lighting, appearance and the driver.
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Updates The version and the daily check, what OpenDash has written into SimHub, Reinstall everything, Put mine back, and a support report.
A screen is set up on a picture of itself
“Zone C” means nothing until you see where zone C is. The Screens page draws each face to its own proportions, and every part of the drawing opens its settings.
- Live, from SimHub’s own renderer. The selected screen is drawn by the same engine your display uses, so what you see on the page is what the screen shows.
- Press a part to set it. The bar’s fields, a zone’s pages as a list to tick and drag into order, the rev bar, the flag display, the lap review and the quick glance. Under them, the screen’s SimHub name and folder.
- Add asks three questions. The kind, the size, and the theme where the size has one. Then one restart of SimHub, and the screen is a dashboard of its own to assign to a display.
- A themed face has its own rows. Band D lists the theme’s page after the house ones, and a Porsche face shows where its crest is fetched from, with the address yours to change or clear.
- Every screen keeps its own settings. A face on the wheel and a face beside it are set up apart, and a wheel button is bound to one of them.
The whole rig at once
The Rig page lays your screens, strips and matrices out as tiles you drag to match the desk. Under them, the Preview chips.
- Paint one moment on everything. A chip for a flag, the spotter, the pit lane, a warning or the revs puts that moment on every tile, so you can see what a yellow looks like across the rig before one is out.
- Home is the short form. What needs fixing first, then one line per device saying what it shows right now, then brightness and night mode.
Lights and the flag box
The LEDs page holds your strips, each with its shape, its effects and its colours, and the car data they light from. The Matrix page holds the flag box.
Updates that keep what you changed
The plugin checks GitHub for a newer release once a day, and replaces itself from the Updates page on the restart it asks for.
- Nothing of yours is overwritten quietly. A dashboard you edited in Dash Studio is held back; Replace anyway keeps a copy, and Put mine back restores it.
- What OpenDash wrote is listed. One row per dashboard and profile in SimHub, with its version and state, and Reinstall everything under it.
- Support is a report to paste. Versions, devices and the last lines of the log, copied for you. Nothing is sent anywhere.
What leaves your machine
An update check to GitHub once a day, which can be switched off. The car light tables when you press Download. A Porsche face’s crest, once. Nothing about you, ever.