Downloads

Firmware and software

Every firmware release we have published, with the changes listed for each one, and the SimHub template a board needs to follow a game. Downloads are free. No account is required.

Software

SimHub template

How to install it

p1lot-simhub.zipWindows

2 files12 KB

The JavaScript that turns what your game reports into what the instruments show. Paste it into SimHub once. It covers every game SimHub reads, and a signal a game does not report simply stays where it was. Everything worth changing sits at the top of the file with a line saying what it does, and README.txt beside it has the SimHub settings.

DownloadZipped so your browser does not block it. Unzip, open the .js, copy all of it.

Step by step, with what you should see at each point. the setup walk-through

Software

P1LOT Link

What it does

The window a board is set up in. One file, nothing to install and no account. It opens, finds the board on its own and shows what is plugged in.

It is needed twice. Once when the rig is new, to describe what it is built from, and again if something needs checking. It reads the board rather than describing it, so firmware that gains a setting gains it here with no new download.

My setup. Tick what is on the harness, such as a dashboard, rotary controller, gear selector or steering wheel, and which pair of wires each one sits on. Under every part it lists the jobs that part took: volume, tracks, the menus. Two parts that cannot share a wire can both be ticked, so the conflict is visible before either is removed.

Test bench. Every button you press, listed as you press it, and the connector read five times a second. This is the page that answers “is it the cable or is it me”. It writes the same telemetry line a game does, so every needle, lamp and readout can be moved with nothing else running.

Update. Puts the board into its updater and steps through copying the new firmware across. The manual procedure above does the same thing.

It talks to the board over the same USB cable a game uses and shares it, so a rig can be configured while a game drives the dashboard. Windows will not hand one COM port to two programs, so stop the device in SimHub first.

Windows1.0.2

10.8 MBzip

Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit

DownloadUnzip it anywhere and open it. Nothing is installed and nothing is written outside the folder you put it in.

SHA-256ca10c75929d4be62c89b9b490d48eca350a0c2af2e5ca206fd256e03c52a33d4

macOS1.0.2

11.0 MBzip

Apple silicon, macOS 11 Big Sur and later

DownloadUnzip it anywhere and open it. Nothing is installed and nothing is written outside the folder you put it in.

SHA-256174d35a6749015c5ba960511f395ec09decd26ea73d3152b99292b664f9d7350

Firmware

Updating a board

Put the board in update mode. With USB connected, hold the button on the board for three seconds, or type dfu on its console.

A drive named P1LOT appears. Open INFO.TXT on it to read the version the board is running now. HELP.URLbeside it opens this product’s page.

Copy the downloaded file onto that drive. It ejects itself and restarts when the copy finishes.

An interrupted update cannot brick the board. The running firmware is replaced only after the whole file has arrived and been checked, so a cable pulled halfway through leaves the old version in place. If a board ever does refuse to start, its update drive still appears. Send us what INFO.TXT reports and we will send back a recovery file.

Car electronics interface

P1LOT One

Product page

0.0.13Current

Sep 24, 2026166 KB

Gauges and pedals keep their settings, and a dashboard no longer wakes up showing warnings it was never given.

Added

A pedal or stick wired either way round. Take the resting end and the travel runs that way.
An output frame you shorten is kept. A digital servo will take 200 Hz.

Fixed

The shift light came on at startup against an idle engine, on both BMW panels.
A speed limit sign showed before any road had one.
One damaged gauge record put both outputs back to off.
The updater left the supply rails and two status LEDs to settle wherever they liked.
Bus rates of 83333 and 33333 are accepted instead of refused.
The self-test runs one pass again.

Known issues

Tested against one unit of each panel we have.

Download p1lot-0.0.13.rfuSHA-25600c0e2f7234dcf3a100bcfa9004c37129f8d59cc78e97558059bd9030a327603

What these files are. Firmware written by us, for our own hardware, free to download whether or not you bought your board from us directly. A production unit accepts only builds carrying our signature, so a file from anywhere else is refused by the board rather than installed and discovered later.

Built for a desk, not a road. P1LOT hardware drives a cluster mounted on a rig or a bench. It does not go back into a vehicle, and nothing published here may be used to touch a mileage or service record. See the terms.