In testing. Redline Dashboard has run in the game on our own XENEON EDGE and is being readied for the Elgato Marketplace. This page will link to the listing when it is up.
What it shows
The Dash
The gear big, ten shift lights that fill green, yellow and red and flash at your shift point, speed, a rev bar with the shift point marked, boost, fuel, power, your car's class and PI, and the four tires coloured by temperature. On the bigger sizes the pedals and G-force join in.
The pages
- Race: position, lap, laps done, the current, last and best lap, race time, and the delta to your best lap, worked out by the widget as you drive: green when you are ahead, red when you are behind.
- Tires: a car drawn from above with each tire's temperature, grip and spring travel, in words as well as colours (working, sliding, grip lost, bottoming).
- G-Force: the load as a dot inside rings at 1 g and 2 g, with a fading trail of the last 3 seconds and this session's peaks.
- Inputs: throttle and brake over the last 10 seconds, with clutch, handbrake and steering.
- Track: the road you drove this session, drawn from your position, with the car on it. There is no map, only where you have been. Tap it to clear the line.
- Session: top speed, peak G, best lap, distance driven, your car's class, PI, drivetrain and engine, and the Data Out connection.
When something is missing
The widget says what is missing instead of going blank, and comes back by itself once the figures flow again.
- Waiting for Redline: nothing has written the file yet. After a minute it says what to start (see the FAQ).
- Waiting for Forza Horizon 6: Redline Link or Redline Deck is running but no telemetry has arrived. It shows the Data Out settings to use.
- Paused: you are in a menu or paused. Your session's figures stay, and the Track and Session pages keep showing.
- Redline Link stopped or Stream Deck closed: the program writing the file was quit.
- Port 5605 is in use: another program holds the port the game sends to.
What you need
- A Corsair XENEON EDGE, on Windows.
- iCUE 5.51 or newer. Earlier versions cannot let a widget read a file.
- One of these on the same PC:
- Redline Link, a small Windows program for people without a Stream Deck; or
- Redline Deck, our Stream Deck plugin.
- Forza Horizon 6 with Data Out on: Settings, HUD and
Gameplay, Data Out On, IP address
127.0.0.1, port5605(or the port you set in Redline Link or Redline Deck).
Feeding it
Forza Horizon 6 sends its telemetry, one packet a frame, to one port on your PC. A widget cannot receive that
itself, so a program on your PC does, and writes what it reads to one file,
%APPDATA%\, about ten times a second while you drive. The widget draws
from that file. Two programs can write it, in the same format:
- Redline Link, which sits in the notification area. It also serves the same figures as a live stream on this PC, which the widget uses for the smoothest updates. Download it and set it up on the Redline Deck page.
- Redline Deck, our plugin for Stream Deck, with its Write the dashboard file setting on (the default).
If both run, Redline Link writes the file and the plugin steps aside. Only one of them can receive the game's port, so let one forward to the other: Running Redline Link and Redline Deck together.
Start Redline Link or Redline Deck once before you add the widget in iCUE. That makes the folder the widget reads, and iCUE only watches a folder that existed when the widget was added. If you placed the widget first, remove it and add it again, or restart iCUE.
What it reads
The widget reads one folder, %APPDATA%\, where Redline Link or Redline Deck writes
its file. When Redline Link wrote the file, and the setting Use the live stream of Redline Link
is on, it also listens to Redline Link's stream on this PC, at localhost port 5605. That is all: no
other folder, no other address, and it only reads. The file works on its own without the stream.
Sizes and settings
You choose the size in iCUE when you place the widget: Small, Medium, Large or Extra Large, across or upright. Every page is laid out for every size; small sizes leave out the least needed panels instead of shrinking the type.
In the widget's settings in iCUE you can:
- Show every page with touch tabs, or one page per widget, so you can place several Redline Dashboard widgets side by side;
- turn to Race when a race starts (with tabs): a race turns it to the Race page and driving outside a race turns it back. A tab you tap stays put;
- set your shift point, 85 to 98% of the rev limit (92% unless you change it);
- pick the speed, tire temperature, boost and power units, or follow the ones set in Redline Link or Redline Deck;
- switch Redline Link's live stream off, to use the file alone;
- set the text, accent and background colours, and the background transparency.
What it can and cannot do
- It reads one folder on your PC and Redline Link's stream on this PC. It sends nothing, stores nothing and writes nothing. Nothing you drive leaves your PC from the widget.
- It changes nothing in the game. Taps only change what the widget shows.
Frequently asked
Do I need a Stream Deck?
No. Redline Link is a small Windows program that writes the same file as the Stream Deck plugin. It needs no administrator rights and nothing to install: unzip it and run it.
Can I use it with the Stream Deck plugin at the same time?
Yes. Redline Deck writes the file the widget reads, so with a Stream Deck you need nothing else. If you also run Redline Link, it writes the file and the plugin steps aside; set them up as in Running Redline Link and Redline Deck together.
It says Still waiting for Redline.
Start Redline Link, or Stream Deck with Redline Deck. iCUE can only watch a folder that already exists, so if you added the widget before either program had ever run, remove the widget and add it again, or restart iCUE.
It says Waiting for Forza Horizon 6.
Check the game's Data Out settings in HUD and Gameplay (On, 127.0.0.1, 5605), then
drive: the game sends nothing in its menus.
Why does the Race page not say lap 3 of 5?
The game's telemetry does not include the number of laps in the race, so the page shows the lap and the laps done.
Is this made by Playground Games, Microsoft or Corsair?
No. Redline Dashboard is an unofficial project made by TeaTime, not affiliated with or endorsed by Playground Games, Microsoft, Xbox Game Studios or Corsair. Forza Horizon is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation, and XENEON EDGE and iCUE are trademarks of Corsair. No game logo, artwork, font or screenshot is used: every picture is drawn in code, with panels, bars, lights, a plain car outline and the traces.
Something is still wrong.
Email support@teatimeservers.ca and tell us what the widget says.