DCS BIOS Communicator

DCS-BIOS Communicator

a .NET library for communicating with DCS-BIOS

Table of Contents

1. Features
2. Getting Started
3. Benchmarks
4. Roadmap
5. Acknowledgments

DCS BIOS Communicator is a .net 8 library for interacting with DCS-BIOS. It parses the raw data bytes provided by DCS-BIOS and will trigger actions when it receives data.

Features

• Parses data from DCS-BIOS
• Handles pesky UTF-8 symbols
• Might buy you an ice cream sandwich if you're lucky
• Cross-platform

Usage

// create a new UDP client for talking to DCS-BIOS
var client = new BiosUdpClient(IPAddress.Parse("239.255.50.10"), 7778, 5010, logger);
client.OpenConnection();

// create your own translator class which implements IBiosTranslator
var biosListener = new BiosListener(client, translator, logger);

// register the json configuration files
var configLocation = "%userprofile%/Saved Games/DCS.openbeta/Scripts/DCS-BIOS/doc/json/";
foreach (var config in await AircraftBiosConfiguration.AllConfigurations(configLocation))
{
    biosListener.RegisterConfiguration(config);
}

// start the listener
biosListener.Start();

Benchmarks

Benchmarks are strictly for parsing data received from the UDP server and do not include network time or UDP receive time.

BenchmarkDotNet v0.13.12, Windows 11
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, 1 CPU, 24 logical and 12 physical cores
.NET SDK 8.0.206

Job=.NET 8.0  Runtime=.NET 8.0

Method	Mean	Error	StdDev	Ratio
TestString	30.043 ns	0.1793 ns	0.1677 ns	1.00
TestInt	1.290 ns	0.0114 ns	0.0106 ns	1.00

Roadmap

• Unit tests

Acknowledgements

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