One of my first videos from 2012!

My old youtube channel was closed down (cyber stalker and hacker issues)

But i wanted to show how i started with connecting real bus parts to Omsi,
So i managed to get hold of one of my old videos from an archive site and am posting it here for posterity.

For those who don't know, back in 2012 i started connecting led's and gauges to Omsi, using a plugin written for me by a bloke called Thiago (on the aussieX forums)

As you can see my 'dashboard' was a piece of wood i had pasted a printout of the D92's dash texture onto, i had a few switches, led holders, a tachograph head and some old fuel gauges that i took apart and added printouts of the gauge textures from omsi to.

A handbrake lever from a random truck, plus a steering wheel from a MAN bus, which i mounted directly onto the 'shaft' of my logitec driving force GT wheel with a simple adaptor turned on a lathe (nowadays i'd 3D print it)

The wheel is heavy so the force feedback is weak but it does work, the wheel is mounted on a simple bracket screwed to the underside of the desk, this allows the wheel to point in the correct upwards direction that bus and truck wheels do.
Of course there is the usual issue of only 900 degrees rotation available, when a bus has over 2000 degrees (that can now be solved with a custom FFB setup using EMC-FFB and a 'bit' of hardware hacking)

I had the indicator / wiper stalk working and self cancelling as the wheel returns to centre under power, and the stalk is just screwed into the plastic of the wheel's 'base'

You will also spot the mechanical coin changer mechanism out of a pay table, which i added microswitches to so Omsi can read what 'coins' i am giving as change to the 'passengers'

About a year after this video was made Omsi 2 came out, which made the 'Gazz.dll / .opl' obsolete, as Komsi was available shortly after, which made getting data out of Omsi 2 a lot easier.

And by that time i had a proper dashboard, Ibis, Ticket machine, PayTable and so on.

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And yes... i talk back to the 'passengers'... i'm weird like that.
I remember comments i got back when this video was originally posted, because i say 'Wetter ist scheiße, ja?' meaning 'The weather is shit isn't it'.
I said this because it was raining, but some people claimed i was calling German people shit heads and all sorts or stuff like that!