Using Simucube wheel base in Linux - Revision history

Mtakala at 07:14, 8 June 2025

2025-06-08T07:14:05Z

Mtakala at 23:47, 7 June 2025

2025-06-07T23:47:49Z

S.R.Lemke: Some colors, make single root command more visible.

2024-11-26T09:14:59Z

Some colors, make single root command more visible.

S.R.Lemke: /* Simucube 2 on Linux */

2024-11-21T16:29:48Z

‎Simucube 2 on Linux

Mtakala at 08:18, 12 February 2024

2024-02-12T08:18:49Z

Mtakala at 08:18, 12 February 2024

2024-02-12T08:18:32Z

S.R.Lemke at 10:02, 9 February 2024

2024-02-09T10:02:36Z

S.R.Lemke: Add product id for Sport so firmware can be updated.

2024-02-09T09:58:34Z

Add product id for Sport so firmware can be updated.

Mtakala: /* This is a ‘Extraction’ from the forum topic: Driving Simulator for Vehicle Research, the credits for me being able to write this guide goes to all that commented on that thread. */

2023-06-01T16:20:22Z

‎This is a ‘Extraction’ from the forum topic: Driving Simulator for Vehicle Research, the credits for me being able to write this guide goes to all that commented on that thread.

Mtakala at 13:00, 1 June 2023

2023-06-01T13:00:08Z

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 The latest True Drive releases added some missing descriptors needed by Linux, the bellow tutorial lists the extra changes needed.
-Note: There are reports that the "old" plain wine does not work. You must use proton-wine, then it will work. Also Simucube Tuner should work for the wheelbase.
+Note: There are reports that the "old" plain wine does not work by default, but proton-wine does. Also Simucube Tuner should work for the wheelbase.
 <span style="color:red">Important: the only command to run as root on this guide is in red</span>.

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	The latest True Drive releases added some missing descriptors needed by Linux, the bellow tutorial lists the extra changes needed.		The latest True Drive releases added some missing descriptors needed by Linux, the bellow tutorial lists the extra changes needed.
		+
		+	Note: There are reports that the "old" plain wine does not work. You must use proton-wine, then it will work. Also Simucube Tuner should work for the wheelbase.

	<span style="color:red">Important: the only command to run as root on this guide is in red</span>.		<span style="color:red">Important: the only command to run as root on this guide is in red</span>.

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 The latest True Drive releases added some missing descriptors needed by Linux, the bellow tutorial lists the extra changes needed.
 {| class="wikitable"
 |-
-| Install Wine, preferably wine >= 7.17
+| Have wine installed on your distro.
 |}
 * To isolate this True Drive from the main wine setup we will use a dedicated WINEPREFIX, you can use whatever WINEPREFIX name you want, think of it as sandbox that you can delete and recreate if something goes wrong.
-* In order to avoid special character expansion problems, as users may use different shells, the next commands use username, please adapt to your username, which you can get with the command '''whoami'''
+* In order to avoid special character expansion problems, as users may use different shells, the next commands uses username, please adapt to your <span style="color:#1E90FF">username</span>, which you can get with the terminal command: '''whoami'''
 {| class="wikitable"
 |-
-| mkdir /home/username/simucube
+| mkdir /home/<span style="color:#1E90FF">username</span>/simucube
 |}
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 |-
-| WINEPREFIX="/home/username/simucube" wine regedit
+| WINEPREFIX="/home/<span style="color:#1E90FF">username</span>/simucube" wine regedit
 |}
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 |-
-| WINEPREFIX="/home/username/simucube" wine Simucube_2_True_Drive_version.exe
+| WINEPREFIX="/home/<span style="color:#1E90FF">username</span>/simucube" wine Simucube_2_True_Drive_version.exe
 |}
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-| vim /etc/udev/rules.d/72-simucube.rules
+| <span style="color:red">vim /etc/udev/rules.d/72-simucube.rules</span>
 |}
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 |}
-* Power on the Simucube 2 base, open True Drive (you probably have an icon in the wine submenu), see it if connects.
+* Power on the Simucube 2 base, open True Drive (you probably have an icon in the wine submenu).
+* Don't forget to enable high torque.
-* If you cannot open the online profiles, you probably need to import the .exe from the wineprefix used above into Steam.
-* Then set the True Drive entry created on steam to use proton (in compatibility mode), start testing with Proton 7 as this one works fine.
 This tutorial was created based on:
-OpenSUSE Leap 15.4 && 15.5, it should work also in other distros.
+OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and Slowroll, should work equally on other distros.
 [[Category:Software]]

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-| WINEPREFIX="home/username/simucube" wine Simucube_2_True_Drive_version.exe
+| WINEPREFIX="/home/username/simucube" wine Simucube_2_True_Drive_version.exe
 |}

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	KERNEL=="hidraw*", ATTRS{idVendor}=="16d0", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0d5e", MODE="0660", TAG+="uaccess"		KERNEL=="hidraw*", ATTRS{idVendor}=="16d0", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0d5e", MODE="0660", TAG+="uaccess"
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	<nowiki>#Needed for firmware upgrade (Simucube 1):</nowiki>		<nowiki>#Needed for firmware upgrade (Simucube 1):</nowiki>

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-<nowiki>#Needed for firmware upgrade(Works for all models):</nowiki>
+<nowiki>#Needed for firmware upgrade(Works for all Simucube 2 models):</nowiki>
 KERNEL=="hidraw*", ATTRS{idVendor}=="16d0", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0d5e", MODE="0660", TAG+="uaccess"
 |}

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 KERNEL=="hidraw*", ATTRS{idVendor}=="16d0", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0d61", MODE="0660", TAG+="uaccess"
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 KERNEL=="hidraw*", ATTRS{idVendor}=="16d0", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0d5f", MODE="0660", TAG+="uaccess"
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 This tutorial was created based on:
 OpenSUSE Leap 15.4 && 15.5, it should work also in other distros.
 [[Category:Software]]

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 == Simucube 2 on Linux ==
-====This is a ‘Extraction’ from the forum topic: [https://community.granitedevices.com/t/simucube-2-on-linux/10166 Driving Simulator for Vehicle Research], the credits for me being able to write this guide goes to all that commented on that thread.====
+====This is a ‘Extraction’ from the forum topic: [https://community.granitedevices.com/t/simucube-2-on-linux/10166 Driving Simulator for Vehicle Research], the credits of being able to write this guide goes to all that commented on that thread. Very special thanks to Sergio Rafael Lemke.====
 The latest True Drive releases added some missing descriptors needed by Linux, the bellow tutorial lists the extra changes needed.