Overview / Feature List

This is a list of all the features that are currently in MAIRA.

General Features

  • Ability to configure settings per-car and per-track
  • Ability to control most settings to various inputs (keys, knobs, buttons, hats)
  • SimHub plugin

Awesome force feedback experience – the main feature!

  • 360 Hz (upscaled to 500 Hz) force feedback for all wheelbases
  • Works for all types of wheelbases – gear driven, belt driven, and direct drive
  • Adjust the main weight separately from the high frequency details
  • Multiple FFB algorithms to choose from
  • Prediction removes up to 2 frames of latency (1/30s)
  • Wheel LFE
  • Crash and curb protection
  • Reduce forces and auto-center wheel when parked or not on track
  • Soft clipping
  • Vibrate on gear change and ABS activation

Steering effects

  • Understeer, oversteer, and seat-of-pants steering effects
  • Calibrated to each car
  • Wheel vibration, constant force, and pedal vibration effects
  • Overlay to show how your car is behaving, similar to the skid-slip indicator on aircraft

Pedal effects

  • Works with all Simagic pedal haptic devices natively
  • Works with some other brands via SimHub
  • Mix, match, and tune different effects including –
    • Gear change (separate settings for shift into gear and shift into neutral)
    • ABS activation
    • RPM (constant or vibrate when its time to shift)
    • Wheel lock and spin
    • Clutch slip
    • Understeer, oversteer, and seat-of-pants

Wind simulation

  • Works with the custom MAIRA Typhoon Wind Kit
  • Equalizer-style fine tuning of fan speeds based on car speed
  • Wind curving
  • Minimum fan speed (for those hot days)

Sounds

  • Custom sounds support (drop in your own wav files)
  • Adjust loudness and pitch (frequency shift)
  • Sound effects for –
    • ABS activation
    • Wheel lock and spin
    • Understeer, oversteer, and seat-of-pants

Speech-to-Text

  • Uses the Google Chrome STT engine to convert voice chat messages to text
  • Works with any language
  • Text is shown in an overlay window

Trading Paints

  • Downloads paints from Trading Paints
  • Notifies iRacing after paints have been downloaded (so cars are reloaded)
  • No need to run the Trading Paints app

Graph

  • Shows real time data graphs for –
    • Input torque from iRacing (360 Hz and 60 Hz)
    • Input wheel LFE from iRacing
    • Output torque from MAIRA
    • Clutch, brake, and throttle pedal haptics
    • Timer jitter

Simulator Data

  • Shows the data stream from iRacing in real time –
    • Header data
    • Session information
    • Telemetry data

App settings

  • Multiple language support! This is the list of languages supported in MAIRA and the percentage of text that has been translated for each language –
    • English
    • Deutsch (Deutschland) – German (Germany)
    • Português (Brasil) – Portuguese (Brazil)
    • Українська (Україна) – Ukrainian (Ukraine)
    • Español (España) – Spanish (Spain)
    • Français (France) – French (France)
    • Português (Portugal) – Portuguese (Portugal)
    • Русский (Россия) – Russian (Russia)
    • Polski (Polska) – Polish (Poland)
    • Dansk (Danmark) – Danish (Denmark)
    • Italiano (Italia) – Italian (Italy)
    • Nederlands (Nederland) – Dutch (Netherlands)
    • Čeština (Česko) – Czech (Czechia)
    • Հայերեն (Հայաստան) – Armenian (Armenia)
    • Türkçe (Türkiye) – Turkish (Turkey)
    • 简体中文 – Chinese (Simplified)
    • Français (Canada) – French (Canada)
    • Català (Espanya) – Catalan (Spain)
    • Magyar (Magyarország) – Hungarian (Hungary)
  • Various app window options (topmost, scaling, start minimized, etc.)
  • Checking for updates on app start

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