frsky menu on non frsky FW

[wallaguest1]

hi,
why companion9x show the frsky menu in the virtual LCD ? i am using the er9x fw and it shows the menu like if i was using the er9x-frsky

[Rob Thomson]

I believe companion shows all the menu options avaliable. regardless of what options are compiled in.

Guess it does this for simplicity

[wallaguest1]

in the GUI okey, but in the LCD emulator makes no sense, if its reading the er9x.hex then i guess the options for frsky should not be present,

[Kilrah]

It's not reading the .hex (you don't have to choose one, and you don't even need to download it). It has it's own "internal" implementation, with all options.
That could be something, use the options in the preferences page to display things or not in the sim....

[Romolo]

Disabling option at runtime would be particularly complex and furthermore will require some patching of the original firmware code.
So all reasonable options are compiled in the simulator including heli and templates...
We do not have a real atmega/arm simulator but we recompile the firmware code for the windows/mac/linux platform.
The functionality will be the same (so it's a simulator) but does not rely on the downloaded HEX to work.