I am trying to build an interface to a control panel that uses joysticks to interface to KSP via the KRPC. I have everything working, reading the joystick values into a raspberry pi, and then having the pi connect to the KRPC server. I am trying to achieve a 10Hz or better rate for the controls. For my python code, I execute the calls on a loop.
while(True):
GetJoyStick()
start = time.time()
vessel.control.pitch = joystick_pitch
vessel.control.yaw = joystick_yaw
vessel.control.roll = joystick_roll
vessel.control.thottle y= 1
vessel.control.forward = 0
vessel.control.right = 0
vessel.control.up = 0
end = time.time()
print(end-start)
I played around with some different settings in KRPC advanced settings in the KRPC interface, the best I could get was 45 RPC/sec. Here is a print statement of time for the update to occur as shown in the code above.
Starting Controls///
0.439182043076
0.435542106628
0.437279939651
0.441950798035
0.443905830383
0.400623083115
0.742579936981
0.438502073288
0.443440198898
0.435302972794
0.439296007156
0.623143196106
0.461045980453
0.442525863647
0.43900513649
0.439331054688
0.47675204277
0.439754962921
I am wondering if this is the best approach that I am taking. For a bank of switches, the rates are fine, but for joystick control, it can be a little laggy. Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Tom
