Changelog — KPM Sim Kit

New Devices page, OBS sources, and improved editor controls

Devices brings your screen assignments into one page. Add a monitor, USB screen, phone, or tablet, choose a layout from its preview, and turn it on. Assignments, rotation, and connection details stay together here.

Monitors can show a dashboard or an overlay scene. To use a phone or tablet, scan its pairing code and choose a dashboard in Sim Kit. Paired screens follow your assignment and refresh when an update is ready.

Direct output to your wheel

Sim Kit can now send dashboards directly to supported VoCore screens, including the screen in a GSI wheel. SimHub can keep controlling the wheel's LEDs while Sim Kit handles the display. You can also add a SimHub device and let SimHub render its dashboard instead.

Your layouts in OBS

Install the plugin from Integrations > OBS, then add a Sim Kit source in OBS. Choose a dashboard or overlay from its layout list to put it in your scene.

Video works in the other direction too. An OBS video widget follows the selected OBS scene on your dashboards, overlays, and paired screens. It uses the plugin, so you no longer need Virtual Camera or an open projector window.

A more consistent editor

Data sources, typography, colors, backgrounds, borders, and shadows now use the same controls across the editors. Search for a reading, set its appearance, and reset an individual setting without clearing the rest of your work.

Undo and Redo apply only to the current layout. Arrow keys move selected dashboard widgets, and saves skip unchanged documents. Reusable widgets can also contain nested layers.

This is part of an ongoing editor cleanup. More to come.

Fixes

Conditions Visibility and timed actions follow live data, with active flag screens taking priority over other matching screens.
Timing Corrected remaining-time and remaining-lap estimates.
Telemetry Background opacity now applies to the whole telemetry panel.
Graphs Short ABS and traction-control activations stay visible on pedal traces.
Steering Fixed missing car-specific wheel artwork on customer installations, including custom iRacing install locations.
iRacing Corrected session text decoding for accented names and other non-English characters.
Backups Stalled cloud backups recover automatically or report when they need attention.

Improvements

Tables Set individual column widths and show estimated competitor sector results, with adjustable sector-square sizes.
Ratings SR and iRating columns keep their width as values update.
Timing Added lap times and delta references that include laps with incidents. Lap and sector results remain visible between sessions.
Track maps Maps can update independently of the app. Corner labels have clearer connections, and sector boundaries follow the current session.
Idle screens Use visibility conditions to keep a dashboard such as Stream Sidecar showing its normal content without iRacing running.
Backgrounds Added carbon weave, aero flow, heat haze, track contours, and checkered flag effects. Idle images also have DVD bounce, CRT, and corner-hit effects.
Desktop Added a configurable global overlay shortcut and a launch-with-Windows setting.
Performance Reduced text-layout work in overlays. Library previews load as you browse, and backups wait during races.
Updates Sim Kit automatically removes old downloaded installers and inactive app versions.

Cloud backup and restore

Recover your dashboards, overlays, themes and custom widgets from an earlier cloud backup. Profiles & backups in Settings shows completed recovery points and lets you review what will change before restoring.

Cloud backup is rolling out to invited Alpha and Pro accounts. After the first-upload notice, saved configurations and their images upload when editing has stopped. Editing and local saving continue while the backup uploads. Turn automatic backup off at any time, or choose Back up now.

Restore into a separate library to keep your current configuration, or replace it with the recovered version. Libraries have readable names, and you can rename them to keep their histories easy to find. Portable import and export stay alongside your profiles.

Cloud backup settings with a readable source library name and recovery history

More in this release

Music: Show the song, artist and album artwork from Windows now playing on this PC.
OBS: Add a silent OBS Virtual Camera preview, show stream and recording status, or use OBS audio levels in a gauge.
Conditions: Hide an entire widget, including its frame. Use live data to change a widget's background or draw its perimeter border.
Themes: Set palettes of up to ten class colors and ten sector colors in the theme builder.
Mirror: Choose separate backgrounds for the left and right spotter areas.
Integrations: Find connected services in the Integrations directory and on Home, with connected status shown in green.
Updates: Staged updates can install while Sim Kit is open and idle, outside an active session. Editor changes are saved before restarting.
Tires: Use theme colors for tire compound readings and badges.

Fixes

Overlays Fixed startup with software rendering and scene centering between grid lines.
Backups Status checks no longer interrupt a long-running upload.
Dashboards Theme changes reach open displays while live race data is running.
Dashboards Saving can finish beyond the usual request timeout.
Dashboards Open displays recover when their shared data connection stops updating.
Steering Current-car wheel artwork retries after a failed load.
Telemetry Brake traces stay visible in front of overlapping throttle traces.
Widgets Grouped previews keep their children visible. Pit-service readings no longer resize against their own height.
Community Theme previews update without the earlier lag. Cards keep their full height as the catalog scrolls, so titles and actions stay visible.
Sharing Publishing completes when it overlaps a sign-in refresh, and reports a failure if the refresh cannot finish.
Home Existing layouts are recognized without an onboarding record. Postponed setup stays postponed across navigation and reloads.
Updates Windows shortcuts keep opening the active installed version after an update.
Integrations Music, OBS and chat subscriptions release their resources when they stop, with recovery for stalled connections.

Improvements

Settings See cloud storage use, backup status and the last completed recovery point when backup is available. Status updates in place while uploads run.
Settings Profiles, local libraries and cloud history have clearer spacing and aligned controls. YAML stays under View YAML.
Profiles A saved-profile notice explains where to download the local copy made before an update.
Menus Choices use alphabetical order, with Sample widgets kept first in theme previews.
Themes Preview widgets at readable sizes. Font heights are calibrated across families, and Futuristic's shared palette controls save correctly.
Community Preview cards use sharper images, and usage counts include each creator only once.
Community Browsing keeps cached results and steady loading placeholders. Category navigation returns to the previous browsing position.
Sharing The separate Community license checkbox and notice are removed. Choosing Share applies the existing Terms.
Integrations Connection guidance explains when OBS must be open and SimHub must be closed for installation.
Conditions Appearance actions use the shared Then label, with the redundant rule-mode selector removed.

Make it feel like your own

Your dashboard and overlays can share a look you can change in one place. The theme builder now has controls for shared colors, frames, typography, and the individual parts inside each widget.

Choose backgrounds, gradients, borders, shadows, spacing, and fonts. Fine-tune table dividers, class headings, driver badges, gauge markings, graph labels, and the mirror's delta panel. Click a part in the preview to edit it. You can also preview a widget from one of your own dashboards or overlays with its actual settings.

Changes save as you edit. Use Undo and Redo, compare with the version you opened, or reset an individual setting. Set a theme as your default, or choose a different theme for a dashboard, overlay scene, or widget. Add themes from Community and share your own.

The theme builder's shared palette beside Data and Gauge previews

Table class heading controls beside the selected parts in a driver table

A closer view of the track

Track maps now use a built-in catalog for iRacing's 428 current track configurations. Each map follows the exact configuration in your session. Turn numbers, corner names, sectors, and other layouts are available where the map has that data.

The new Follow car layout keeps your car, or the car followed by the camera, centered on the map. Set the zoom and choose driving direction up or a fixed track orientation. On the full map, choose your car's color and indicator, size the driver badges, and stack nearby cars.

Sector colors can show performance against your personal best, session best, or last lap. Car motion also has fixes for race and replay stutter, with closer spacing between stacked badges.

The full track map and Follow car layouts with sample race data

Edit a custom widget once

Custom widgets now save automatically. Edit a widget's source in the Library and every linked use receives the update, including dashboards and overlay scenes. You no longer need to remove and add it again.

Each use keeps its own size, position, and theme. Edit the contents, overall padding, background, and border in the source. The widget builder uses one canvas with sample-data scenarios. It replaces the separate Edit layout and Test widget tabs.

A linked widget's Edit source button and its separate theme, size, and position controls

More in this release

Fonts: See each font's appearance in the picker before choosing it. Paper Mono and Ioskeley Mono are now available.
Steering: Add a standalone steering wheel with your current car's artwork, or choose a steering angle bar.
Desktop: One system tray icon controls Sim Kit and overlays. Close or reopen the interface separately, and start, stop, show, hide, arrange, or reload overlays from its submenu.
Conditions: Compare one numeric reading with another. Trigger rules when a value increases or decreases, and set durations for visibility or appearance actions.
Chat: Set backgrounds, opacity, padding, corner radius, and spacing for individual Twitch messages. Choose message and name text sizes separately.
Widgets: Use the active driver's car class color in widget background fills.
Installer: Windows installers and app components are now signed with a verified publisher and timestamp.

Fixes

Tables Row dividers respect inner spacing on both sides.
Widgets Driver badge text keeps the theme's colors on gradients and transparent fills, with automatic text contrast on solid fills.
Graphs Live traces fill the available height when the header is hidden. Axis labels follow the theme's font, style, spacing, and size.
Overlays Mirror sector backgrounds sit behind the performance colors.
Dashboards Open dashboards refresh after runtime updates, and session recovery keeps current race data available.

Improvements

Themes Reset buttons restore inherited settings. Compact theme and custom indicators keep controls on one line.
Library Saved thumbnails load from a local image cache.
Widgets Data widgets now show readings without the old mini graphs, bars, or other visual readouts. Use Graph and Gauge widgets for those displays.

Look at this graph

Lap pace, pedal traces, race gaps, fuel use. Graph and Table widgets let you build a view around the race data you want to see.

Choose a starting point or start from scratch. Use live readings, completed laps, sectors, stints, or race events. Graphs include line and bar charts, scatter plots, heatmaps, lap distributions, and speed along your recorded track path. Compare drivers, filter pit or incident laps, and choose how to group and calculate values.

A lap pace graph and a Standings Table with class-colored rows

Data and Style controls now live in the main sidebar. The regular canvas shows each change as you edit. Changes save automatically, and Undo and Redo work without leaving the settings. Starting points stay in the creation step, so choosing one cannot replace an existing widget by accident.

This is how your laps remind you. Compare a lap with your previous or best lap, or divide it into equal sections to see where time changed. Set axis limits, colors, legends, and event markers where the selected graph supports them. Live pedal traces also show ABS and traction-control activity.

Graph data controls beside the regular widget canvas

Your race tables, in one widget

A little Rockstar treatment for your race data. Table now covers Standings, Relative, Lap table, Fuel usage, and ordinary records. Existing widgets of these four types become Tables when you open them. The update keeps their columns, headings, row settings, appearance, and placement, including widgets in groups, overlays, and saved templates.

Fuel tables keep their consumption rows, units, finish estimates, and summary metrics. Lap tables keep their selected columns and row count.

Add driver badges, names, ratings, flags, manufacturer marks, gaps, or lap data as normal columns. Reorder columns and open their settings popover to rename or hide a heading and align its content. Ordinary record tables also support display units, precision, value colors, sorting, and a footer you can hide.

Turn on class-colored row backgrounds for a subtle tint across each row. The iRating column has its own option for estimated race changes. Standings and Relative keep nearby cars, class row counts, pit filtering, and live or lap-line positions.

Standings in the Table widget with driver badges and class row highlights

Features

Live chat Connect Twitch in Integrations and show chat in a widget. Choose badges and emotes, message expiry, empty-chat visibility, text sizes, and spacing.
Overlays Choose desktop windows or a browser canvas for an overlay scene. Browser output gives OBS a transparent view with a configurable canvas size.
Home Follow setup steps for your first dashboard or overlay, start with a Community design, and skip or resume setup. New installations start with an empty Library.
Home Open your active overlay and read recent product updates from the Home page. Community designs and product updates remain visible below Get started during setup.
Driver focus Data and Gauge widgets can follow your car while driving and the camera car while spectating. You can also select a driver.
Gauges Incident gauges follow the session's warning and disqualification limits, with optional limit markers.
Track map Align the map within its widget with a nine-position control.
Telemetry Show or hide time labels on live traces.
Community Sharing shows the CC0 license and asks you to confirm your rights to share the included content.

Improvements

Editor Widget header text and Show header controls are in Content, with the same toggle used elsewhere in the app.
Overlays Each scene keeps its own connected or manual visibility setting. Show widget offers simple visibility choices alongside custom conditions.
Overlays Hidden scenes and inactive browser views stop unnecessary rendering, then resume with current data when shown.
Overlays Widgets keep their transparency, stacking order, glow, and shadows without clipping at scene or widget edges.
Overlays Arrange mode and widget locking keep editing input separate from racing input. Reloaded views recover their connection and motion updates.
Telemetry Traces keep the newest sample at the live edge and preserve brief input changes when reducing the points drawn.
Graphs Event labels have readable backgrounds and follow their markers. Incidents appear at their recorded position within the lap, including on stepped lines.
Tables Personal and session best lap highlights follow new completed laps. Standings fit rows to the available height while keeping leaders and nearby rivals visible.
Tables Recorded columns keep their captured values, and live driver tables no longer shorten graph history by collecting unnecessary opponent samples.
Tables Migrated tables with more than 13 columns can switch between Standings and Relative without dropping columns.
Ratings Safety rating displays truncate the final digit instead of rounding up. Compact iRating values, country flags, and manufacturer marks have corrected formatting and alignment.
Community Starting points match the selected output, and failed previews offer a retry instead of creating the wrong layout.
Integrations SimHub setup now makes clear that its plugin is for dashboards on SimHub devices. Desktop overlays work without it.
Desktop Website and Community links open in your normal browser.
Installer Updates remove leftover files from older installations and avoid starting the app twice after an automatic update.
Widgets Idle-screen backgrounds and steering-wheel artwork handle missing or unsupported images without broken previews.

A more flexible dashboard editor

The Library now has tabs for dashboards, overlays, widgets, and themes. Filter to the item you want, then choose New to start with that type. In the dashboard editor, Text adds headings or multiline notes beside live widgets such as a Gauge. Image adds theme artwork or your own pictures. Both work on dashboards and overlays.

Editor typography, condition actions, and Gauge and Text widgets

Gauge and Text widgets arranged on the dashboard canvas

Select a Data or Gauge widget to style its label and value separately. Size, alignment, and color stay in the sidebar. The typography button opens font family, weight, case, line height, and letter spacing, with a preview of the result. Individual reset buttons return a setting to the dashboard theme without clearing your other choices.

Font, weight, case, line height, and letter spacing controls

Conditions can now change background fills, text response, and gauge settings as live data changes. The action menu groups these choices with text, border, visibility, and flash effects.

Condition actions for background fill and text response

Edit the screen between sessions

The Idle screen now appears beside Main in the dashboard editor. Add, move, layer, and style widgets on it as you would on any other screen. Use an Image widget for artwork or a background, add Text for a message, or arrange a driver card from Data widgets in a group.

The Idle screen open in the dashboard editor

Existing idle images, backgrounds, and driver cards become editable widgets when you open an older dashboard. The screen still appears automatically when iRacing disconnects and gives way to your racing screen when telemetry returns.

Updates when you are finished using the app

KPM Sim Kit can now download a new release in the background and install it after you close the manager and active racing or dashboard use has stopped. You can still choose Install now in Settings when you want the update sooner.

Before switching versions, setup checks your saved dashboards and profiles and keeps a backup. If the new app cannot start, it restores the previous version and data.

More in this release

Telemetry: Choose Automatic — current car for the steering-wheel display to use artwork from your installed iRacing car files, with a generic wheel when artwork is unavailable.

Fixes

Overlays Transparent windows no longer open as black or opaque rectangles on first launch.
Overlays Outside Arrange mode, overlay windows let clicks reach iRacing instead of taking input over session controls.
Installer Setup actions stay visible at common Windows display scaling levels.
Installer Setup can continue when an app process exits while it is closing the app.
Editor Group selection and drag controls no longer move the wrong item during nested edits.

Improvements

Integrations Desktop-only updates no longer ask you to replace the separately versioned SimHub connector.
Widgets Library previews stop running live animations while you browse; effect previews still play when you edit them.
Overlays Animation follows the selected 30 or 60 Hz motion rate instead of the monitor's refresh rate.
Editor Dashboard save conflicts now present clearer recovery actions.

KPM Sim Kit gets its own Windows app

KPM Sim Kit now has a standalone desktop app for managing dashboards, widgets, overlays, and settings. It reads iRacing telemetry directly and runs its dashboard host in the background, so closing the window leaves displays active. Open it again from the tray, or use Quit KPM Sim Kit to stop the host.

SimHub is an optional connection for showing KPM dashboards on wheels, monitors, and phones. The new Integrations page finds SimHub, connects or repairs it, and shows a phone address when one is available. A local SimHub display waits for the KPM host to start before opening its dashboard.

SimHub connection status in the desktop app

The Windows setup can install the app without SimHub. When it finds an existing KPM SimHub installation, it moves dashboards and settings into the app and connects SimHub to them. When a newer version is available, the top bar offers the update and the app opens a verified setup file.

Build conditions that change how a widget looks

Add rules such as If RPM is at least 8000 and gear is greater than 2, then change text. Edit data, comparisons, and values directly from compact chips. Combine conditions with and or or, and drag rules into order. Each rule has buttons to enable, duplicate, or remove it. When rules match at the same time, later rules win for the same visual property.

Compact visual rules with inline RPM and gear conditions and removable visual changes

Rules can change text, background, border, opacity, visibility, or flash. The choices and values follow the selected data type, including named values for gear and session state. The same condition controls now drive widget, overlay, and screen visibility. Widget editors share the rule controls, and live data updates only the widgets that use a changed condition.

The data browser groups related readings into categories and variants. Search across all data, or start with the current selection, recent choices, and commonly used readings.

Searchable data browser with categories and suggested readings

More room to edit, with clearer controls

Editor sidebars start at a quarter of the window and remember the width you set across editors. A thin blue divider marks the resize handle. The sidebar uses one tab row, with tighter type and spacing so more settings fit without losing their hierarchy.

Text changes open a compact popover with font size, weight presets, and color swatches. Reset icons restore dashboard defaults. Border controls let you link sides or corners, or adjust them separately. Ordering controls make it easier to see and change the position of selected items.

Text change popover with font size, weight presets, and color controls

More in this release

Widgets: RPM, radar, telemetry traces, and other live widgets do less work between data updates while keeping their current readings visible.
Race context: Race control and spectator widgets can use more field data, and the RPM widget follows iRacing shift light data.

Fixes

Dashboards Local SimHub windows wait for the desktop host to become available instead of staying on a browser connection error.
Widgets Manufacturer logos keep their contrast and alignment in leaderboard and other widget layouts.
Data Gear text refits when its value changes width, and unitless metrics no longer show a unit toggle.

Improvements

Editor Removed unused menu and browser link controls from the desktop app.
Data Redline and pit limiter states can change widget text and colors.

Start with something from Community

Community expands beyond widgets to include dashboards, overlay scenes, and themes. Browse everything together or filter by type, search by name, and inspect previews before choosing Use. Staff Favorites appear first, followed by the most-used items.

Community preview alongside the theme builder

Using a Community item creates your own copy. Edit it freely: changes from its author do not replace your work. Removing the public listing does not remove your copy.

Share your own work from the top bar of each builder. Published items appear in Community immediately. The Library shows which items are private or public. You can make a listing private again from its sharing controls.

Make a theme your own

Create reusable themes with your own colors, fonts, density, corners, shadows, and glow. Start with a built-in theme and preview your changes across widgets as you edit.

Theme builder with widget previews and Appearance controls

Shared widgets use the destination's theme. Preview them in different themes before adding them to your dashboard or overlay scene.

Start from a template

Choose New, pick what you want to build, then browse built-in templates and Community designs. Use one as your starting point or start from scratch.

Choose Dashboard, Overlay scene, Theme, or Widget in the New flow

More in this release

Feedback: Open the Discord Bugs or Ideas forum from Feedback. An invite link is available for people who have not joined.
Event feed: Follow pit entries, pit exits, incidents, and overall best laps from across the field. Active-only mode shows current driver flags instead of event history.
Leaderboard: Choose live race positions or update them only when cars cross the start/finish line.
Relative: Hide cars in the pit lane or pit box from nearby driver rows.
Visibility: Use Waiting for race start during the race countdown and after qualifying ends when you leave the car.
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Fixes

Dashboards Restored live data access and rendering for phone dashboards.
Track map Use a circular map when no track layout is available, and prefer continuous layouts when multiple track recordings exist.
Leaderboard Place the divider at the gap between leading drivers and the player's nearby rows.

Improvements

Editor Combined screen tabs with undo, redo, save status, and Add widget. Add screens with the plus button and access screen settings from each tab.
Widgets Replaced Save widget with Create widget or Apply changes to distinguish creation from editing.
Leaderboard Group driver-row settings separately from visible columns.
Flags Show the striped debris flag in flag widgets and the mirror overlay.

Build a widget once, then use it anywhere

Reusable widgets now sit beside dashboards and overlay scenes in the Library. Choose Widget from the New flow and set its internal grid. Then assemble it with the same content used elsewhere in the editor.

The reusable widget creation flow and widget builder

Saved widgets appear under My widgets whenever you add content to a dashboard, overlay scene, or another reusable widget. Each insertion is an independent copy, so you can resize or edit it without changing the original.

The widget builder uses the same top bar and settings as the dashboard and overlay editors. Undo, redo, add, save, and overflow actions also stay in familiar places. Widget settings hold the reusable grid and appearance defaults. The overflow menu can delete the widget without changing copies already in use.

Find and share widgets through Community

Community has its own place in the sidebar. Browse shared widgets, search the catalog, and add one to your local collection. Installed community widgets then appear in the normal Add widget flow.

Your own widgets stay in the Library. Turn on sharing in a widget's settings to publish its YAML and referenced images. Shared assets use their content hash, so two packages can reuse the same image without storing another copy. Turning sharing off removes the public listing while keeping your local widget.

Move through Replay Lab recordings

Replay Lab now has a seek bar with elapsed time and lap markers. Drag to another point in a recording or select a lap marker to jump directly to that lap. Seeking resets replay state before playback resumes from the chosen frame.

More in this release

Widget text: Set font color and weight directly, or change either value from live data.
Widget spacing: Set one inner-spacing value for every side, then open the detail control to adjust each edge.
Local recovery: The editor writes accepted changes to a local journal. It moves them back to the SimHub host after reconnection.
Widget packages: Export and import standalone YAML or a .kpmwidget package when the widget includes images.

Fixes

Dashboards Matched widget spacing, alignment, type scale, and group layout between the editor preview and the running dashboard.
Editor grid Allowed placement and resizing on every grid row and column instead of skipping alternating positions.
Editor grid Inserted a widget at the remaining available size when its preferred footprint does not fit.
Telemetry Kept the newest trace at the live edge without the line becoming delayed, jumpy, or separated by a growing gap.
Pit window Scaled each timeline bar to one lap.
Widgets Kept long names and values inside their preview frames at smaller sizes.
Templates Allowed owners to remove and unshare their own templates after a refreshed sign-in.
Sync Reconciled accepted changes even when another change has a conflict.
Overlays Kept update failures visible and retryable instead of replacing them with a later error.

Improvements

Library Added reusable widgets to the same searchable list as dashboards and overlay scenes.
Add widget Put common choices first, with Data at the top, and added separate My widgets and Community filters.
Widget builder Moved grid and appearance settings into the top bar and kept the sidebar focused on adding and editing content.
Editor Added clear working, saved, failed, retry, cancel, and conflict states across persistence and external actions.
Profiles Kept activation, import, export, delete, and retry states in place until each action finishes.
Settings Kept Replay Lab, feedback, connection, and sign-out failures actionable without losing the current page state.

More control over your dashboard

Choose what each widget shows, which driver it follows, and how the content fits its frame. Backgrounds can grow with live data or change color across the whole widget.

Data controls, the Battle timing dashboard, and radar proximity zones

Build a compact position number, a large driver badge, or a lap comparison that changes between red and green. Set a fixed text size or let the content fit its frame. Theme colors, gradients, opacity, and response curves control the final result.

The Battle timing template places two driver groups around a center position readout. It includes badges, names, ratings, gaps, and lap times. Every part remains a widget that you can move, resize, or replace.

Battle timing with two driver panels and a center position readout

The template keeps its relative-driver choices and background settings. Each group can follow a different driver, while a child can inherit that Context or choose its own. New dashboards receive an independent copy, so later catalog updates do not overwrite their edits.

Select the data and driver

The Data widget puts numeric readings and driver visuals in one content picker. Choose a reading such as position, lap time, gap, or rating. You can also show a name, badge, country flag, manufacturer logo, car number, or class chip.

Related readings share a category. A second control selects the wheel, sector, or comparison reference when the reading needs one.

Position controls with optional values and a relative-driver Context

Context selects the driver. Choose the current driver, camera driver, a relative car, a standings position, or the fastest lap.

Relative positions accept positive and negative numbers. +1 selects the next driver ahead. -1 selects the next driver behind. Filters can include all drivers, the current class, or other classes.

A group can set one Context for its supported children. Each child shows whether it inherits the group value or uses an override.

A child widget that uses the group Context

Sector data remains limited to the current driver because it does not support another driver subject.

Control background size and color with data

A background can grow with a value or cover the frame with one data-driven color. Use a growing fill for proximity, fuel, or progress. Use full-frame color for a red or green lap delta.

For a lap comparison:

Select Last lap vs you as the data source.
Select Full frame for the fill area.
Select Positive / negative for colors.
Set Above zero to Critical.
Set Below zero to Positive.
Select a separate color for Zero.

This reading subtracts the Context driver's last lap from your last lap. A positive value means you were slower. A negative value means you were faster. Text adjusts for contrast when the data color covers the frame at full opacity.

Full-frame color controls for Last lap vs you

Growing fills can start at any edge. Choose one tint, a two-color gradient, or custom gradient stops. Each stop has its own position and optional opacity.

Range & response controls can use fixed limits or the limits from the selected data. Reverse the fill when a smaller value should produce a larger background. Linear, logarithmic, exponential, and S-curve responses shape how the fill moves through the range.

A reversed fill with fixed limits and a logarithmic response curve

See pit service state in one place

Pit service shows fuel to add, fuel after the stop, selected tires, tire compound, tear-off, and fast repair. Choose a compact or vertical layout, then show only the details you need. These settings change the display, not the pit selections in your simulator.

Pit service with fuel estimates, tire selections, tear-off, and fast repair

Tune the radar to your view

The radar has proximity zones and car markers. Set its range, show or hide guides, and hide the radar when the track is clear.

Radar proximity zones with cars alongside and nearby

Customize text, badges, and spacing

Text sizes use numbered presets from 6 to 512 instead of size names. Keep Theme default or select Auto-fit text. Numeric sizes use relative units, so they follow the selected theme and font family.

Set content alignment, label size, label placement, and spacing separately. Hide a label when the value should stand alone. The same Data content can fit a small dashboard cell or a large display.

Text size, alignment, label visibility, and label layout controls

Scale whole badge changes the complete badge without altering its proportions. Auto-fit text changes only the text size. Inner spacing can follow the theme or allow edge-to-edge content.

Position can show the field size and position change, or only the position number. Similar controls hide session totals, lap deltas, and sector deltas.

Find and edit the right control

Group rows show the content name and effective driver Context. The second line identifies group inheritance or a widget override.

Named group widgets with their inherited driver Context

Data controls put content, display style, and optional values together. Basic typography remains visible, while detailed label layout starts closed.

Background controls separate the base background from the data effect. Advanced range and response controls also start closed.

More in this release

Data widgets: Gap to you and Last lap vs you can use the selected driver Context.
Pit service: Added separate readings for tear-off, fast repair, fuel after the stop, and fuel-to-end status.
Driver names: Added full names, short names, and initials.

Fixes

Backgrounds Custom proximity fills use gap magnitude for drivers ahead and behind. A negative gap no longer fills the frame.
Context Relative-position steppers accept negative values, skip zero, and select drivers behind you.
Data widgets Long text truncates when the frame has no room for another line.
Driver ratings Safety-rating and iRating text follow automatic sizing, and compact badges fit smaller frames.
Data widgets Changing away from a complete driver badge selects a compatible sizing mode.
Data widgets Selecting the same category again preserves its selected variant.
Backgrounds Switching color modes preserves positive and negative colors.
Backgrounds Moving a gradient stop keeps the active control in place.
Radar Positioning preserves a known side during close passes and clears old side data after cars move away.
Authentication Recovery keeps a usable refreshed session when refresh-token recovery fails.
Updates Update checks support the previous release host and the current Sim Kit release host.

Improvements

Data widgets Added independent controls for label size, placement, alignment, spacing, and optional values.
Driver badges Added separate whole-badge scaling and text auto-fit modes.
Inspector Kept basic typography visible and placed detailed label layout in a closed section.
Inspector Separated base backgrounds from data effects and kept advanced response controls closed.
Groups Showed the content name and effective Context for each child row.
Migration Preserved saved settings while converting older metric widgets, driver details, and named text sizes to Data widgets.

Build layouts with groups

Keep related widgets together in a Group on dashboards and overlays. Give the group a label, border, and background, then drag widgets into or out of it on the canvas. Select an item to move, resize, and edit it with the same controls used for other widgets. Groups arrange their contents into rows and columns as their available space changes.

Widget groups, an editable lap timing template, and the updated mirror overlay

A selected group on the dashboard canvas with its label and widget controls

Start from a template and make it yours

Browse dashboard templates in the Library or choose one during creation. The Lap timing template includes eight individual widgets that you can move, resize, replace, or remove. It replaces the old Lap Timing cluster in the widget picker. Existing saved clusters still render.

The template catalog loads once at SimHub startup. Updates to the catalog never overwrite dashboards you have already created.

Lap timing template with eight editable widgets

Make the idle screen your own

Add a logo or other image, drag it into position, and adjust its size. Choose a solid color, gradient, or shader behind it. KPM Sim Kit stores JPG, PNG, WebP, and supported static SVG images locally while preserving transparency. Turning off background animation keeps a still shader visible.

Custom idle image with size, position, and background controls

More in this release

Library: Enable or disable dashboards and overlay scenes without losing their settings or edit access.
Mirror overlay: Choose separate comparison references for sector colors and the center delta, including Last lap.
Dashboards: Drag screen tabs to reorder them and rename the selected screen from its tab.
Editor: Add widgets to a full grid, then arrange the overlap or move the widgets into a group.

Fixes

Dashboards Screen changes retain current telemetry and time-loss history instead of showing stale or empty data.
Telemetry Removed the artificial flat extension at the newest end of the trace and stabilized shift flashes.
Lap timing An invalid first lap can become the delta reference when no valid reference exists.
Sectors Previous-lap colors stay tied to the reference used when each sector completed.
Sectors Personal comparisons reset between qualifying and the race without extra flashes or relabeled splits.
Sessions Qualifying countdowns continue while valid session time remains, and delayed lap updates no longer duplicate history.
Time loss Graphs use collected samples and actual sector boundaries without cooldown data overwriting the scored lap.
Idle screens Custom image uploads update the preview when switching from name and number.
Mirror overlay Removed sector clipping, flag gaps, and misaligned readouts across themes.
Groups Child widgets select their own controls and support movement, resizing, and overlapping placement into a group.
Dashboards Screen tabs can move to the end of the list, and deleting a dashboard returns to the Library.
Templates Copies no longer inherit the source disabled state or theme, and publishing rejects local-only image references.

Improvements

Creation Added more space, a dedicated starting-point step, and visible progress from the first screen.
Widget Studio Made the whole card open its widget and added a clear hover state.
Settings Moved overlay visibility rules and the show-or-hide shortcut into main Settings.
Widgets Chose a starting layout and size that fits when the default is too large.
Mirror overlay Connected sector cells, aligned readouts, and moved the flag below the frame.
Telemetry Enlarged and centered gear and speed while preserving the steering angle readout.
Telemetry Added theme-aware flashes for upshifts, downshifts, and redline.
Event Feed Aligned flags and text, kept car numbers near titles, and truncated long names.
Driver ratings Truncated compact iRating values instead of rounding them up.
Errors Dismissed toasts automatically and added an X close button.

The right screen at the right moment

Dashboard screens can now switch automatically for driving, pit lane, session, and flag conditions. Show a flag screen while a warning is active, or return after a set number of seconds. Your previous screen returns when the conditions end, and timed screens wait for a new activation before appearing again.

Automatic screen conditions, the revised Battle cluster, and compact mirror sector results

Clearer battles and sector results

The Battle cluster gives nearby drivers more room, adds safety rating and iRating, and makes last-lap comparisons easier to read. The mirror has smaller sector squares and delta text in a less-rounded center panel, aligned with its bottom border. First completed sectors establish a personal-best baseline instead of appearing yellow because no earlier lap exists.

Battle cluster with driver ratings and last-lap comparisons

Steadier live telemetry

Fixed a mismatch when joining a session that could leave telemetry, gear, and steering readings updating too slowly. Telemetry traces now scroll between incoming samples.

More in this release

Overlays: Choose visibility from driving, location, session, and race-phase conditions.
Overlays: Set a show-or-hide shortcut. The default is Ctrl+Shift+H.
Units: Mix units independently across speed, fuel, temperature, distance, motion, energy, and other measurements.
Widgets: Choose backgrounds from theme colors, custom colors, images, gradients, or 19 shader effects.
Editor: Lock individual dashboard and overlay widgets in place.
Sectors: Add one widget that arranges all track sectors to fit its space.
Flags: Choose which flags flash when activated.

Fixes

Widgets Kept cluster readings inside their frames across themes, including 90s Digital values and Battle driver ratings.
Widgets Standard text, secondary labels, and monochrome icons adapt to supported background colors.
Editor Removed blur from dashboard and overlay content while zooming.
Mirror overlay Removed flag-band gaps and kept a dark backing behind the flashing color.
Backgrounds An unfinished image upload no longer replaces a newer background choice.
Sectors Kept valid comparisons when the source briefly omits a personal best or reports zero.

Improvements

Layers Remembered the panel height and expanded state while reserving space only when open.
Editor Added panning from empty canvas space and kept zoom shortcuts within the canvas.
Previews Showed triggered widgets such as radar even when their live trigger is inactive.
Time loss Added turn markers, sector boundaries, and sector shading while retaining faint previous-lap data.
Sectors Flashed completed sectors three times and faded older mirror results after the next lap starts.
Lap timing Added an option to hide the bottom row and give the graph more space.
Fuel usage Added configurable rows, columns, and optional finish, time-left, and saving summaries.
Pit lane Added black-flag and repair indicators beside drivers.
Inspector Reduced repeated headings and added compact All widgets navigation.

A complete lap-timing screen from reusable widgets

The new Lap Timing cluster combines predicted lap time, live delta, sector results, a time-loss graph, and lap benchmarks. Its 800 by 480 layout adapts to every Sim Kit theme and tracks with up to 12 sectors.

Lap Timing cluster in KPM Sim Kit and 90s Digital themes

More in this release

Lap timing: Added predicted lap time, delta, sector results, time-loss history, and four lap references in one cluster.
Time loss: Added a standalone graph for custom dashboards and groups.
Dashboards: Added alternate screens on one physical display, with touch, keyboard, and SimHub-mapped switching.
Pit lane: Added a standalone widget with vertical and horizontal layouts.
Sectors: Added individual metrics for tracks with up to 12 sectors.

Fixes

Lap history Completed laps appear at the finish line instead of waiting for the following lap.
Sectors Colors distinguish personal best, session best, and no improvement.
Live data Corrected delayed player lap values so timing widgets update at the finish line.

Improvements

Sectors Kept the previous lap result visible until the same sector completes on the new lap.
Lap table Used green and red for faster and slower laps, matched delta-to-best colors, and shortened the Fuel heading.
Dashboards Migrated documents when new schema settings appear, so existing layouts open without manual YAML edits.
Data widgets Opened layout controls by default.
Lap timing Scaled typography and spacing across all themes, including the 90s Digital display font.

Put every overlay detail under your control

KPM Sim Kit 0.0.13 showing the mirror overlay, telemetry widget, and driver tag settings

Telemetry and mirror overlays now fit the information you want around the car. Hide complete telemetry sections and configure each pedal bar and percentage. You can also turn off ABS or traction-control treatment and show sector results under any supported mirror delta.

Keep high-rate widgets on the live feed

High-rate widgets now consume the native 30 Hz motion feed directly. Removing the second rate-limit timer keeps telemetry traces, steering, radar, and clusters responsive without adding more polling work to SimHub.

Edit without losing your place

Dashboard editing is safer across autosave and profile changes. Successful saves preserve undo history. Profile activation carries the correct revision forward. Published documents include the telemetry demand from active dashboards and overlays.

More in this release

Overlays: Control full widget opacity separately from background opacity.
Driver tags: Choose initials or three letters of the last name, with a live badge preview in Settings.
Mirror overlay: Show labeled sector results under delta metrics with personal-best, no-improvement, and session-best colors.
Telemetry: Hide the trace, gear and speed, or steering independently, and configure each pedal bar and percentage.
Telemetry: Turn off ABS and traction-control treatment when you do not want trace highlights or activity indicators.

Fixes

Telemetry Steering graphics move in the same direction as the real wheel.
Radar Cars from isolated lone-qualifying sessions no longer appear as live targets.
Editor A successful autosave no longer erases undo history.
Profiles Activation and later autosaves use the same dashboard revision, which prevents immediate save conflicts.
Telemetry Hidden sections no longer reserve space or show controls for another layout.
Overlays Full-widget opacity is no longer applied twice with lower background opacity.

Improvements

Live data Kept telemetry, radar, mirror, and cluster motion aligned with the native 30 Hz feed.
GT clusters Showed placeholders for unavailable metrics before the first timed lap.
Mirror overlay Integrated active flags into the lower frame and hid the band when race control is clear.
Mirror overlay Scaled sector labels on tracks with many timing sectors.
Installer Restored managed dashboard wrappers to the packaged runtime without replacing user dashboard documents.

Faster live data with finer overlay control

KPM Sim Kit now requests high-frequency telemetry only for widgets on active dashboards and overlays. A separate path handles fast motion data without rebuilding slower session updates. Pedal traces, relatives, spotter state, and other live widgets stay current.

The refined telemetry and mirror overlays beside the new scene layers panel.

Shape telemetry around your view

Show or hide clutch, brake, and throttle readouts, then arrange their bars horizontally below the trace or vertically beside it. The trace now moves more smoothly, clutch input follows the physical pedal, and steering follows the standard on-screen direction.

The telemetry widget with pedal traces, pedal readouts, steering, gear, and speed.

Build a mirror overlay that belongs around the mirror

The mirror overlay has a tighter frame across every theme. Configure metrics at the left, center, and right, with spotter rails at both sides. Active flags take over the lower frame and disappear when race control is clear.

The mirror overlay with a green active-flag frame, side spotter rails, and configurable metrics.

More in this release

Overlays: Show each widget always, only while driving, or only outside the car.
Editor: Use the Layers panel to select covered widgets and change their front-to-back order.
Editor: Nudge the selected overlay widget one pixel at a time with the arrow keys.
Widget Studio: Preview clear track, nearby traffic, flags, and repairs-required states for the mirror overlay.

Fixes

Overlays Starting overlays creates and shows their windows while preserving normal game-window behavior.
Telemetry Relative and session values continue to update while high-frequency telemetry is active.
Telemetry Clutch input follows pedal movement on hardware with an inverted raw axis.
Overlays Layer order remains stable when a scene includes widgets on a disconnected display.
90s Digital Kept mirror position, lap, and delta text inside the frame.

Improvements

Telemetry Active dashboards and overlays request only the iRacing fields they use.
Overlays Multiple scenes share one live feed, while fast telemetry avoids rebuilding slower session and driver data.
Editor Alignment guides snap widgets to the scene center and neighboring edges while dragging.
Mirror overlay Frame metrics use the same catalog as individual data widgets, including local time.

See nearby traffic at a glance

The new proximity radar shows cars ahead, alongside, and behind your own car in a compact transparent overlay. Its rings and center lines make direction and distance easy to read without covering the track.

The proximity radar, mirror overlay, and race-control feed shown together at full size.

Build information around the virtual mirror

The new mirror overlay wraps iRacing's virtual mirror with a resizable frame. Place spotter indicators at either side and keep the lap delta directly below the mirror without covering the reflected view.

The resizable mirror overlay with left and right spotter indicators and a lap delta.

Follow race-control events as they happen

The new event feed records slowdowns, black flags, repair flags, and disqualifications with the affected driver, lap, and session time. Compact flag marks also appear in timing tables so penalties stay visible without crowding the driver row.

The event feed showing slowdown, black-flag, repair, and disqualification events.

More in this release

Widgets: Add radar, mirror overlay, and event feed widgets to dashboards or overlay scenes.
Data widgets: Display more iRacing values, including weather, pit repairs, incident limits, DRS, energy systems, and tire readings.
Driver tags: Choose first and last initials or three letters from the last name.
Telemetry: Configure iRacing to transmit data for up to 64 cars without changing the number of rendered cars.

Fixes

Overlays Manual and automatic startup choices persist instead of reverting.
Data widgets Metric widgets respond to every frame style, including a frameless presentation without a background or border.
Lap charts Graphs fill the available widget height.
Previews Dashboard previews match the rendered display, with a direct control for the name-and-number animation.
Editor Dragging and resizing in scaled previews keeps widgets under the pointer, including near the bottom edge.

Improvements

Overlays Windows follow the iRacing game window in the desktop stack and stop covering other apps after focus changes.
Inspector Added compact, theme-aware controls for frames, typography, labels, spacing, and visibility.
Data widgets Expanded metric search and kept category headings fixed while browsing.

See every input, your way

Add live pedal traces, steering, speed, gear, ABS, and traction control to a dashboard or overlay. Choose a compact or wide layout and set the history window. Hide readings you do not need, then show a generic wheel or supported wheel artwork.

Telemetry widget layouts across the KPM, Futuristic, Modern Speed, and 90s Digital themes.

Review each completed lap

The new lap table keeps the most useful lap data together. Choose how many laps to show. Arrange columns for lap time, fuel use, incidents, pit stops, and the gap to your best lap. Another column shows gained or lost positions.

More in this release

Dashboards: Add an image behind a dashboard alongside solid-color and gradient backgrounds.
Editor: Choose free-form or grid placement for each dashboard and overlay scene.
Widgets: Set background opacity, remove the frame, and hide the label when only the content should float over the sim.

Fixes

Widgets No-frame styling removes theme backgrounds and borders across widget types.
Editor Dragging or resizing at a non-default zoom keeps the pointer and widget aligned, including near the bottom edge.
Data widgets Label, icon, and value sizes stay consistent when stack order or spacing changes.
90s Digital Kept large metric values inside their widgets.
Editor Theme names remain visible, and sticky metric headings no longer leave a gap above them.
Previews Dashboard previews use the same background and idle-screen presentation as the rendered display.

Improvements

Inspector Added compact sections and shared controls for themes, frames, alignment, labels, and visibility.
Data widgets Opened metric selection in a larger searchable menu with categories and descriptions.
Editor Added canvas guides that snap widgets to the center and nearby edges.
Widget library Added search across widget names, descriptions, and metrics such as RPM.
Errors Added dismissible error toasts in the bottom-right corner.
Idle screens Added a direct control to keep the driver name and number static.

Put race data over the sim

Build an overlay scene with the same widgets used in dashboards. Place widgets across selected Windows displays, then start the scene in a transparent, click-through overlay host.

KPM standings and track map widgets placed over an iRacing cockpit.

More in this release

Library: Create dashboards and overlay scenes from one place, with previews and clear type tags.
Overlays: Select Windows displays and arrange widgets across their real desktop positions.
Editor: Pan and zoom dashboard and overlay canvases while resize handles remain usable at every zoom level.
Overlays: Start or stop a scene and toggle its placement lock from the editor toolbar.

Fixes

Editor Clicking empty workspace below a canvas now clears the active widget selection.
Overlays Display placement follows the coordinates and stacking reported by Windows.
Overlays Controls use consistent sizes, and Start overlays opens the configured scene.
Dashboards Dashboard state survives brief host-feed gaps without clearing the lap chart.

Improvements

Editor Dashboard and overlay editors use the same toolbar, inspector, zoom controls, and widget library.
Navigation Widened the sidebar and gave the active item stronger text contrast.

Make each theme your own

Set the main theme colors for the whole dashboard, then override them for one widget when needed. Optional idle screen effects use those colors while keeping the driver name and number readable.

Theme selection and color controls in Sim Kit settings.

Keep session history through brief disconnects

The dashboard holds the last valid session state when SimHub briefly drops data. Lap history stays on screen and resumes from the same session when the connection returns.

More in this release

Feedback: Send feedback from the plugin and attach the active dashboard YAML when a problem needs reproduction.
Profiles: Create, switch, import, and delete dashboard profiles from Profiles & sharing.
Idle screens: Choose animated effects for each theme or turn them off for a static background.

Fixes

Sessions Short SimHub connection gaps no longer clear the lap chart or reset the active session state.
Sessions Session time handles timed, lap-limited, and unlimited sessions without invalid progress text.
Relative Relative gaps use the same distance and lap reference rules across tables, battle clusters, and other relative views.
Fuel usage Filled the refuel and finish balance fields when source data is available.
90s Digital Kept metric text, rating badges, manufacturer marks, and track sector labels inside their containers.
Incidents Centered the count and bar with or without a visible label.
GT clusters Flashed the existing gear readout at redline without drawing a second number over it.

Improvements

Data widgets Used explicit font steps for each theme across compact and full layouts.
Battle cluster Gave driver names more room, aligned each side toward its driver, and added blue proximity cues for blue-flag traffic.
Timing tables Kept useful columns visible until the table runs out of usable width.
Driver data Used the same source for country flags, class colors, badges, and manufacturer marks across widgets.
Settings Grouped resolution, grid, theme, background, and idle-screen controls into one editing flow.
Replay Lab Stored the complete normalized dashboard snapshot on every frame for closer session reproduction.

Shape the dashboard around your screen

Edit the full dashboard and each widget from one workspace. Resize widgets, tune table columns, and compare themes while the full screen stays visible.

The KPM Sim Kit builder shows a top monitor dashboard beside its widget settings.

More in this release

Lap charts: Show incidents, position changes, pit events, and personal bests on the lap where they occurred.

Fixes

Telemetry Fast motion updates no longer calculate a different relative gap from the main dashboard update.
Lap charts Compact charts reserve enough room for event labels instead of cutting them off.

Improvements

Timing tables Kept configured columns visible until the table reaches its usable width.
Data widgets Used the available widget space while keeping long readings inside their containers.
Track map Kept corner labels clear of the circuit line, sector markers, and track title.
Relative Used track position and reference lap time across the start line.