How to use the Corsair Xeneon Edge as a dashboard for Simracing

Option 1: Xeneon Edge SimHub Wid­get
To make your life eas­i­er, Fanatec has cre­at­ed its own wid­get that can dis­play any dash­board in SimHub on the Xeneon Edge via a wid­get. The main advan­tage is that, like any wid­get, it can be resized so that you can arrange it along­side oth­er wid­gets.

• Make sure iCUE and SimHub are installed and ful­ly updat­ed.
• Open SimHub and iCUE.



• From the iCUE home screen, hov­er your mouse over the Xeneon Edge mod­ule and click on “Wid­gets”.



• Enable “Show iCUE Wid­gets” here and click on the emp­ty “+” field in the cur­rent­ly emp­ty pre­view.



• Now scroll down in the menu on the bot­tom left until you find “SimHub” and click on it.
• After that, the wid­get will appear on the screen and you can select the size as well as the desired dash­board.

The size depends entire­ly on which dash­board you use and which oth­er wid­gets you want to dis­play next to it. You will notice that each size option in iCUE comes with a spe­cif­ic res­o­lu­tion so that every­thing fits per­fect­ly. Make a note of these if you want to cre­ate or edit a dash­board in SimHub’s Dash Stu­dio. (More on that lat­er)

To give you a start­ing point, Fanatec has cre­at­ed a com­pact dash­board specif­i­cal­ly designed for the “Medi­um” wid­get size. Down­load it below.

Xeneon Edge SimHub Dash­board Wid­get (Medi­um)

Addi­tion­al­ly, depend­ing on your cho­sen dash­board, a ver­ti­cal ori­en­ta­tion of the Xeneon Edge may be the bet­ter choice. By default, the screen rota­tion auto­mat­i­cal­ly adapts to the ori­en­ta­tion of the Xeneon Edge. Alter­na­tive­ly, you can change this man­u­al­ly by going into the set­tings, dis­abling “Auto Rota­tion,” and select­ing the desired ori­en­ta­tion from the drop­down menu.

Option 2: Using the Xeneon Edge as a sep­a­rate mon­i­tor
Since the Xeneon Edge can be used as an addi­tion­al mon­i­tor, you can place the dash­board of your favorite sim rac­ing game there if you do not want to use iCUE.

Go to the SimHub web­site and down­load the lat­est ver­sion of SimHub. Fol­low the instruc­tions and install it on your sys­tem. After that, SimHub will open and you can set up the Xeneon Edge as an out­put device.

• On the SimHub home screen, you will see the “My devices” tab. Click on “Add device”.



• Click on “Gener­ic Mon­i­tor”. This will open a menu where you can define one of your con­nect­ed mon­i­tors as the default dis­play for the SimHub dash­board.
• Here you will see a rep­re­sen­ta­tion of your mon­i­tors and their posi­tions. Select “Click to define tar­get mon­i­tor”.




• A win­dow with the same mon­i­tor overview will open. Click on the long, nar­row mon­i­tor labeled “Xeneon Edge”.

Now SimHub knows that the dash­board should be dis­played on the Xeneon Edge. There are addi­tion­al set­tings that allow you to con­trol when and how the dash­board runs on the Xeneon Edge. For exam­ple, you can have it start auto­mat­i­cal­ly when you open a spe­cif­ic game, or use dif­fer­ent dash­boards depend­ing on the game.

How to cre­ate a dash­board for the Xeneon Edge in SimHub
Since dash­boards are basi­cal­ly small appli­ca­tions that run on a screen, cre­at­ing a dash­board for the Xeneon Edge works the same way as for any oth­er mon­i­tor. Open Dash Stu­dio to cre­ate a new dash­board.

• Click on “Dash Stu­dio” on the left in SimHub and then on “New dash­board” on the right. This will open Dash Stu­dio in a new win­dow.

You will now see a new, emp­ty tem­plate. How­ev­er, due to the unusu­al size and aspect ratio of the Xeneon Edge, you need to adjust this tem­plate.

• Click on “Dash­board” in the top left and then on “Dash­board prop­er­ties …” in the sub­menu. This will open the “Dash­board Prop­er­ties” win­dow.



• Set the “Dash­board base width” to 2560.
• Set the “Dash­board base height” to 720.
• Then enter title, author, etc. and click on “Ok”.

Note: If you want to cre­ate a dash­board for use as a SimHub wid­get in iCUE (instead of as a mon­i­tor), the width and height dif­fer depend­ing on the wid­get size:

• SimHub Wid­get S: 840x344 (hor­i­zon­tal) or 696x416 (ver­ti­cal)
• SimHub Wid­get M: 840x696 (hor­i­zon­tal) or 696x840 (ver­ti­cal)
• SimHub Wid­get L: 1688x696 (hor­i­zon­tal) or 696x1688 (ver­ti­cal)
• SimHub Wid­get XL: 2536x696 (hor­i­zon­tal) or 696x2536 (ver­ti­cal)

Now your tem­plate has the per­fect size for the Xeneon Edge and you can use the tool­box on the left to add ele­ments and cre­ate your own dash­board. A good place to start is to choose one of the pre-made dash­boards from the Dash Stu­dio main menu.

Click on “MORE” on a dash­board and then on “Edit Dash­board”. This will open it in Dash Stu­dio and allow you to adjust the size accord­ing­ly.

This shows you how many pos­si­bil­i­ties there are for cre­at­ing a dash­board, and the addi­tion­al width of the Xeneon Edge offers sig­nif­i­cant­ly more func­tion­al­i­ty and cre­ativ­i­ty than a typ­i­cal 16:9 mon­i­tor.

Cre­at­ing a But­ton Box for the Xeneon Edge
Thanks to the 5‑point capac­i­tive touch­screen, the Xeneon Edge can also be used as a but­ton box. And in a much more ver­sa­tile way than usu­al, since you can posi­tion but­tons freely and cus­tomize them depend­ing on the game.

Cre­at­ing a but­ton lay­out in SimHub can be demand­ing, but it is worth it. But­ton box­es can be real game chang­ers and offer you a prac­ti­cal interface—especially since sim rac­ing games have an enor­mous num­ber of key bind­ings. We will not even get start­ed on flight sim­u­la­tors.

Xeneon Edge Asset­to Cor­sa Com­pe­tizione SimHub Tem­plate

Fanatec has already cre­at­ed a tem­plate for Asset­to Cor­sa that you can use as a start­ing point. Due to its width, the Xeneon Edge works best as a but­ton box in ver­ti­cal mode.

How­ev­er, since SimHub pro­files work dif­fer­ent­ly, this tem­plate is not com­plete­ly plug-and-play. You need to link the inputs in the pro­file your­self with the key bind­ings in the game. This applies both to your own tem­plates and to this one, since these bind­ings are sys­tem- and user-spe­cif­ic.

How to con­nect SimHub con­trols to in-game key­binds
Using Asset­to Cor­sa and the tem­plate as an exam­ple:

• Open SimHub and go to “Dash Stu­dio”. Click on “Import Dash­board” on the right and select the down­loaded file.

It can be help­ful to open the game at the same time to check the key bindings—ideally on a sec­ond mon­i­tor.

At the top right you will see the “Screen Hier­ar­chy” tab (sim­i­lar to “Lay­ers” in Adobe Pho­to­shop). This can con­tain a very large num­ber of ele­ments, so it is advis­able to orga­nize every­thing into fold­ers.

• Open the “Tog­gle But­tons” fold­er. Ignore every­thing with­out “(But­ton)” for now.
• When you click on a but­ton, the “Prop­er­ties” tab will appear at the bot­tom. Scroll to the “But­ton” sec­tion.



• Two options are impor­tant: “Sim­u­lateKey” (check­box) and “Sim­u­lat­ed­Key” (key assign­ment). First enable “Sim­u­lateKey”. This makes the but­ton behave like a key press (sim­i­lar to a macro). Then click in “Sim­u­lat­ed­Key” and press the key or key com­bi­na­tion that is already assigned in the game to the desired func­tion.

If you now press the but­ton, that key press will be simulated—the game will rec­og­nize it like a nor­mal key press.

Please note: If you lat­er change the key bind­ings in the game, you will need to adjust the map­ping in the SimHub pro­file again.

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