Trixter.XDream.TestController - what's that?

[drmason789]

Bascially, it's an X-Dream bike emulator. It's got a rather rough UI - not intended for deployment to the general user base.

Install a virtual COM port utility such as com0com and set up a virtual COM port pair, with one port being the one the client software reads from (see below) and a different one such as COM15 (the server port is configurable from 2022-04-12).

This lets you send commands to the client application, like riding the bike, but with the mouse.

Client Ports:

• The X-Dream Test console application looks on COM2.
• The X-Dream mountain biking simulation looks on the port defined in whichever Scripts\main*.txt it uses for configuration (see X-Dream Configuration File #106). If the original Trixter X-Dream Test console app is working for you, it's probably COM2.

The Trixter.XDream.TestController sends commands to the selected port, then com0com sends the data out COM2 to be picked up by the client. It works the opposite way too. The client tells the server how much resistance to provide and the server does it - for about 50ms - the client has to keep sending this.

Here's a screenshot from a video of using the test controller to drive the simulation, which is running on a Windows 10 machine in DxWnd.