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  2. Difference in Lvar creation between ipc.createLvar and ipc.execCalcCode

    in FSUIPC7 MSFS

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    Hi John, 

    Is there a difference between creating a Lvar via the ipc.createLvar statement or doing it via assigning a Value to it via ipc.execCalcCode?

    To elaborate, i have the problem under MSFS2024-SU2 that sometimes my auto lua is not loaded for second or third flight.
    In investigating this problem via the FSUIPC_WASM.log i found that this always happens because the WASM module stops during the loading of Lvars.
    Most probably a MSFS2024 problem as i didn't have this in MSFS2020.

    In further analyzing this i found that if i create Lvars in my auto-lua script via ipc.createLvar all Lvars are loaded again after each Lvar creation, but strange thing is this doesn't happen if
    i create the Lvar via assignment with ipc.execCalcCode for example: ipc.execCalcCode("(A:TRANSPONDER STATE:1, number) (>L:TransponderState)")

    I included the WASM.ini, WASM.log and FSUIPC.log from one of my tests.

    ipc.createLvar  used, loading Lvars again
    Sat Jun  7 11:33:57 2025   [DEBUG]: Lvar created: 278:TransponderState = 0.000000
    Sat Jun  7 11:33:57 2025    [INFO]: Loading lvars for aircraft 'Bell 505'

    execCalcCode used NO loading of Lvars
    Sat Jun  7 11:34:07 2025   [DEBUG]: Calculator code executed: '(A:ROTOR RPM PCT:1, percent) (>L:Aircraft.Rotor.RPM.Percent)'

    In the logfile at 2211406 Requesting Input Events....  there was no autoloading of lua and i manually loaded the lua file which creates off course a lot off errors as it's refering non-existing variables.

    At the end of the WASM.log the module stops during Lvar load.

    Just to inform you if you get other reports of this kind. 
    Leo

    FSUIPC_WASM.ini FSUIPC_WASM.log FSUIPC7.log

  3. FSUIPC7 hangs when waiting for a lua event and MSFS in main menu

    in FSUIPC7 MSFS

    Posted

    Sorry John,

    Only just now i see your other questions from Yesterday so i will try to answer them here

    Why are you running luas when MSFS is in the main menu? FSUIPC7 only fully functions when you have an aircraft loaded and the camera system is out of the menu system.
    The ipcInit.lua should only be used for any one-off initialisation you need to perform, it should not wait for events.

    The ipcInit.lua just monitors Planeselection change and updates an offset that is monitored by a wideclient, but i could move this to another lua started by ipcInit.lua but i don't see the difference.
    The only thing this Wideclient does at this moment is display the many  functions of Switches of my cockpit for the selected Aircraft (which are different for each Aircraft) to give the possibillity to set switches as they should be for this Aircraft before the Aircraft is loaded and the Auto lua starts and reads those switchsettings.
    Especially important for warmstarts as you can imagine if switches are in wrong positions, the Aircraft may shutdown.
    I could reprogram the Wideclient lua's to monitor the offset "3D00" and would not use ipcInit.lua anymore, but it always worked this way.

     

    Are you doing this outside of the main menu? FSUIPC7 should not process button assignments when MSFS is in the menu system.

    Yes, i can manually load the Aircraft lua only when the Aircraft is loaded and do this when the "Checking for Aircraft auto's" doesn't load the lua which sometimes happens. The buttonmapping is in the profile file for the Aircraft which is only loaded once the Aircraft loads.
    Also used this in the past while developing the lua's to reload a modified lua after making changes without always having to go to the main menu
    If it happens again that the auto lua isn't loaded i will attach the logfiles.

    But again thanks for your help with the above problem.

    Leo

  4. FSUIPC7 hangs when waiting for a lua event and MSFS in main menu

    in FSUIPC7 MSFS

    Posted

    Hi John,

    Your advice was exactly to the point.

    I switched the WASM  LvarUpdateFrequency  back to 6Hz and removed it from the [WAPI] section of FSUIPC7.ini and now all works as before.

    No inaccessible FSUIPC7-window or very slow responses anymore and no Error entries in the FSUIPC_WASM.log.

    Don't know when this double LvarUpdateFrequency is put into the [WAPI] section of the FSUIPC7.ini but it could only be me who did it, just can't remember when and why.

    Anyway, thanks for your help, going to enjoy my flights again 😂

    Leo

  5. FSUIPC7 hangs when waiting for a lua event and MSFS in main menu

    in FSUIPC7 MSFS

    Posted

    John, tried with LvarUpdateFrequency=0  and now the FSUIPC_WASM.log doesn't contain those errors and i got no errors indicating WASM stopped in the FSUIPC7.log.  Especially did for a short flight with an Aircraft that makes a lot of Lvar reads. So far so good.

    Didn't think about testing if the FSUIPC-window was normally accessible in the main menu but will certainly test this tomorrow.

    Still wondering how these errors suddenly happen as the LvarUpdateFrequency has always been 6Hz in my configuration, but for now it works.
    Thanks for your help, hope for happy flying hours again

    cheers,

    Leo 

  6. FSUIPC7 hangs when waiting for a lua event and MSFS in main menu

    in FSUIPC7 MSFS

    Posted

    Hi John,

    Used as sugested LvarUpdateFrequency=0  but no change.
    Started MSFS and created flight from KLAS to KLAS, so far all good.
    BUT after: 185250 10080 Lvars/Hvars received - checking aircraft autos....  nothing happened anymore so i had to load the Aircraft lua manually again
    via a buttonmapping in the ini file.
    After that everything seemed to work correct up to 1161516  4548  [ERROR]: SimConnect_RequestClientData for lvars failed!!!!
    Also the 5 second regular check for transponderstate by using DataCalculatorCode failed, for me an indication that WASM was not running anymore.

    So i had to Disable and re-Enable WASM again through the Add-on menu after which everything worked fine again.
    Also noticed that the FSUIPC_WASM.log again had almost 6000 entries of  [ERROR]: Ignoring request to update LVARs as updated internally  
    So nothing changed so far i can see.  This is something from the last versions as i had this never before and my configuration didn't change.
    Will try another flight but now with another Aircraft although i don't see how thwt could help but doing nothing is also no option.
    Hope this will help to pinpoint the problem.

    EDIT Sorry, just see that i  i set the LvarScanFrequency=0  instead of the  LvarUpdateFrequency=0  My mistake, so forget about this post,
    will try another one with correct settings

    Leo

    Logs.zip

  7. FSUIPC7 hangs when waiting for a lua event and MSFS in main menu

    in FSUIPC7 MSFS

    Posted

    1 hour ago, John Dowson said:

      The log file shows that the WASM ran and exited as expected.

    However, it does look like you have a WAPI client set to update Can you please set
        LvarUpdateFrequency=0
    in all of your WAPI clients, including FSUIPC7. Allowing the WAPI to request lvar updates was something I thought would be useful, but this is really of no use and you should let the WASM update and push-out lvar updates, I will remove this option at some point.

    You need to get rid of these errors before we look at anything else.

     You cannot disable completely. You need to stop those errors.

    I moved your comments from the beta release thread to here where they belong. Please use this thread for your issues, as they are nothing to do with the latest beta release.

    John

    John if i look in the logs then i see 

       647719 23128  [ERROR]: SimConnect_RequestClientData for lvars failed!!!!
       647828  7668  [ERROR]: Error setting Client Data Calculator Code [-1073741648]: '(A:TRANSPONDER STATE:1, number) (>L:TransponderState)'

    if i then Disable and re-Enable the WASM again via the Add-ons-menu, (see 658563 and 920828) everything worked again.
    in the last FSUIPC7.log i had to do this twice, after which all calculator code worked again and I could normally end my flight.
    This indicates to me that the WASM stopped and had to be started again which was the original bug you repaired or do i see this wrong?

    The only WAPI client i have is FSUIPC, i dont use any other modules that query the FSUIPC_WASM and the setting in the FSUIPC_WASM.ini was -2, so once every 2 seconds. But i will try  with LvarUpdateFrequency=0 

    Will report back to you after that.

     

  9. FSUIPC7 hangs when waiting for a lua event and MSFS in main menu

    in FSUIPC7 MSFS

    Posted

    Hi John,

    Problem of WASM stop still present, see logs.

    My other problem (FSUIPC-Window not accessible), still present, but only when in main menu, during Flight this is accessible normal.
    Have seen that FSUIPC_WASM.log contains about 5000 lines "[ERROR]: Ignoring request to update LVARs as updated internally" for a short flight.

    Although it's logged to an SSD drive could that be the culprit of FSUIPC-window not accessible? and when so, why then only in main menu?

     

    Leo

    Logs.zip

  10. FSUIPC7 hangs when waiting for a lua event and MSFS in main menu

    in FSUIPC7 MSFS

    Posted

    Hi John,
    Have a flight logged with examples of this FSUIPC7 hanging

    Started MSFS and when in main menu selected another Aircraft (Schweizer) as seen at 144297 BUT ipcInit.lua doesn't execute the plane change

    Did some screenshots of Taskmanager, FSUIPC window and Console and as you can see from taskmanager FSUIPC is at more than 10% and this for minutes long
    while the CPU is barely around 36%.

    Only when lost focus to MSPaint for saving a screenshot suddenly ipcInit executed the planechange

    Then when starting a flight at 731234 FSUIPC  all looked normal until Checking for Aitcraft lua's which did not load.
    I also have seen this several times with older versions.

    After waiting for 118 seconds i loaded the Schweizer.lua manually from a Buttonbinding in the ini file and as this worked, it's an indication that
    FSUIPC is alive, but (maybe doing other tasks until interupted???)
    From there on everything looked correct but i finnished to save the logs.
    btw i provided an exit in all Aircraft luas when Plane parked and OnGround because if not autostarted it will also not be killed.

    Above description happened several times last days 
    and fwiw i got the feeling the problems always happen if FSUIPC is idle for some time 
    but that's only a feeling.

    For completeness i also included the ipcInit.lua, the Schweizer.lua and the Schweizer.ini

    Leo
     

    FSUIPC SLOW.zip

  11. WASM stops FSUIPC version 7.4.13

    in FSUIPC7 MSFS

    Posted

    Hi John,

    I have a problem that my WASM stops during flight.
    I have seen it before and cannot be certain it started with this latest version but this time i have it logged with the Extra logging option.
    Noticed it because i could switch on the wipers via calculator code and some time later couldn't switch them OFF.

    Looking at the FSUIPC-Console i found a lot of errors indicating that the WASM was not running anymore, so to test this i disabled and re-enabled it via the menu and the errors ceased and all started working again.

    I attach the FSUIPC7 and WASM logs.

    Another thing i have seen in the past days is that FSUIPC menu's are sometimes not accessible and FSUIPC seems to hang when in the main menu, and then after some time starts working again, but i have no clean logs when that happened as i tried several things to get it working again which might confuse the matter, but thought to mention it as i am not sure if it's related,

    If it happens again i also will provide those logs

    Leo

     

    Logs.zip

  15. On MSFS start, Wideclient button screen not available before first plane loaded because Wideserver is not started

    in FSUIPC7 MSFS

    Posted

    John,

    I am sorry but also this last version has caused the [Buttona] section of the FSUIPC7.ini to be missing.
    also here there is a button with line 1000 detected at the very begin but at the end the buttonsection was gone again.

    I attached the FSUIPC&.ini and log files.
    First flight with the H145 went well, then selecting the Cabri end at the end was missing the section again.

    Leo

    FSUIPC7.log FSUIPC7.ini

  18. On MSFS start, Wideclient button screen not available before first plane loaded because Wideserver is not started

    in FSUIPC7 MSFS

    Posted

    John,

    Yes the Schweizer was from the last flight Yesterday evening and today i switched to the Bell407.

    No Assignment window opened at all.

    When i mention during flight i really meant to say "somewhere before end of the flight"

    As i use only a few buttons from the buttonscreen which are captured by an Buttonevent in the lua script.
    In the FSUIPC7.ini i mostly have buttons assigned which are used before any lua script is running and a few others seldom used ones.
    So i found out at the end of the flight when i tried to end the flight with the Esc and End buttons from the buttonscreen who are defined in the FSUIPC7.ini

    Is it a possibillity to make the FSUIPC7.ini and profile files ReadOnly which should then generate an error for a write attempt so we have an indication where it happens.
    I realise i can't make any assignments then but this is anyway something i do only when modifying something?

  19. On MSFS start, Wideclient button screen not available before first plane loaded because Wideserver is not started

    in FSUIPC7 MSFS

    Posted

    Hi John,

    Problem of clearing [Button] section still present. Did yesterday evening two flights which went well.

    Today my first flight worked EXCEP: Buttons defined in FSUIPC.ini didn't work
    In short: TEST 4
    MSFS started
    Aircraft Bell407 selected
    Aircraft Bell407 loaded
    ALL SEEMS TO WORK WELL EXCEPT: 
    Buttonscreen buttons defined in FSUIPC7.ini NOT WORKING
    ButtonScreen buttons captured by Bell407.lua WORK
    CAUSE: [Buttons] section from FSUIPC.ini gone
    MUST HAPPENED DURING FLIGHT AS:
    Here still present
        63703 25912 Button changed: bRef=0, Joy=6 (M), Btn=28, Pressed
        63703 25912 [Buttons] 1000=PM,28,C1003,31
        63703 25912 FSUIPC Control Action: Ctrl=1003, Param=31
    At Ending Flight with Esc/End buttons from ButtonScreen (defined in FSUIPC7.ini) NO ACTION
    Research found [Button] section missing from FSUIPC7.ini

    Leo

    FSUIPC7.ini FSUIPC7.log

  20. On MSFS start, Wideclient button screen not available before first plane loaded because Wideserver is not started

    in FSUIPC7 MSFS

    Posted

    1 hour ago, John Dowson said:

    I think this may have been caused by an issue in the 7.4.7b release (a string termination was missing) that was fixed in the final release. The same issue could also prevent auto luas being started.

    Please restore your buttons in your Schweizer.ini file (by backup, if possible) and continue testing. Post your files if you have an issue.

    Its also strange that the lua auto issue has gone...

     

    Restored all from Backup and had another testflight with latest version.
    All worked normal so will continue flights with this versions logging enabled and will post the logfile if the problem happens again

    cheers

  21. On MSFS start, Wideclient button screen not available before first plane loaded because Wideserver is not started

    in FSUIPC7 MSFS

    Posted

    1 minute ago, John Dowson said:

    Btw, are all your devices attached to the server PC, or do you have some attached to the client PC?

    When the profile buttons are not working, are these in a device attached to the server PC or the client?

    At this moment the client has only the button screen.
    Buttons in the profile are all on the server machine, the device connected on the client died some time ago and was disconnected and not replaced anymore.
    About the 2 joystick devices those are not in use anymore and detached.
    At this moment i hesitate to make any changes that may complicate troubleshooting as it has always worked this way, but i definitely cleanup my ini file one of these days

  23. On MSFS start, Wideclient button screen not available before first plane loaded because Wideserver is not started

    in FSUIPC7 MSFS

    Posted

    OK here are the profile files i used during testing.
    All button linenumbers above 1000 for buttondefinitions come from FSUIPC7.ini 
    Lower than 1000 come from profile files.

    I have anyway the idea that it's intermittend as the first flight with the Schweizer worked and the last flight didn't and if you say this version 7.4.8a only added additional logging
    then the other conditions are the same. Also because yesterday the main problem was that profile auto lua's were not loaded and i have never seen that today.
    Now the main problem seems to be that buttondefinitions from the profile files are not loaded.

     

    FSUIPC7.ini CabriG2.ini Schweizer.ini Bell206.ini

  24. On MSFS start, Wideclient button screen not available before first plane loaded because Wideserver is not started

    in FSUIPC7 MSFS

    Posted

    Yes, i switched Aircraft several times to see if it was Aircraft specifioc.
    I don't have the logfiles from earlier flights anymore but i past you my Journal with notes that i kept since the additional debugging options.

    TESTS WITH DEBUG EXTRA OPTION
    ===============================
    TEST 1 
    MSFS started
    ButtonScreen  use
    Aircraft Schweizer selected
    Aircraft Schweizer loaded
    EVERYTHING WORKS

    TEST 2
    MSFS started
    ButtonScreen  use
    Aircraft Cabri selected
    Aircraft Cabri loaded
    EVERYTHING WORKS

    TEST 3
    MSFS started
    ButtonScreen use
    Aircraft Bell206 slected
    Aircraft Bell206 loaded
    Lua Loaded as Arduino's are initialized
    Buttons defined in Bell206.ini Don't work 
    BUT Bell206.ini is loaded as [Auto] Bell206.lua is loaded
    Several times Button & Switches reload from menu without result
    AT END when pressing ESC and END buttons from Buttonscreen (Defined in FSUIPC7.ini): these work
    Also enormous amount of Axis data in log, could this hinder Button detection???
    Have seen that when i enable lua logging, it is almost impossible to use the simulator

    NEW Version of FSUIPC7.4.8a
    ============================
    TEST 1
    MSFS started
    ButtonScreen use
    Aircraft Schweizer selected
    Aircraft Schweizer loaded
    Lua Loaded as Arduino's initialized
    Buttons defined in Schweizer.ini NOT working
    Buttons defined in FSUIPC7.ini working
    Buttons from buttonscreen working
      Enabled lualogging from one of those and to see if enabled switched some undefined commands 
      in the homecockpit on and off. Do find this in the logging: RECEIVED: ZZ696720   NOT RECOGNISED/EXECUTED
    btw. all buttons above 1000 are defined in the FSUIPC7.ini, those work

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