Ian Dale

Might this also be the explanation as to why require(“LUACOM”) works in FSX but not in P3D? Fixing this would make Phidgets work with P3D via LUA, as we have done with FSX.

Good morning, I wondered if anything had come to mind over what might be causing this issue John? It would be amazing to get Phidgets compatible.

Hi John Sorry for the late response as we've been off site due to torrential flooding blocking access to the sim. Today I've tested the file you attached and get the same error: 9969 *** LUA Error: error loading module 'luacom' from file 'D:/WideClient/Lua/luacom.dll': D:/WideClient/Lua/luacom.dll:1: '=' expected near '' Thanks for the help on this. Ian

That’s great progress John, I will be back with the PC this is installed on over the weekend and will try the version of LUACOM you attached. The LUA is bespoke and written specifically for the project so I won’t be able to share publicly, but can PM elements to you for testing if that’s ok? Yea, we have LUARocks installed too, perhaps the issue lies in the version of LUA to make this work? it is highly likely that we’re using an older version of LUACOM. I didn’t compile it so don’t know the system used to create it and it’s been around since 2006 I believe 😮

That would be amazing John thanks, it’s attached below. Simply put our ultimate need is to get Phidget 1012 (0/16/16) Interface cards working in a P3D environment with LUA just like we can with FSX, our current planned method is via LUACOM but suggest using WideFS to run it as its 32 bit. If you know a better method to use vanilla LUA with FSUIPC (P3D) to open and run a Phidget card, we’d love to hear it. luacom.dll

Luacom drives our Phidget cards John if we use it via FSX. We want to use P3D with Phidgets, and as P3D is 64bit whereas Luacom is 32 bit the two are incompatible. As WideFS is 32 bit we are attempting that route. So far we have been unable to address the Phidget21.dll or Phidget22.dll using FSUIPC COM library lua directly although that might be lack of knowledge. Its the exact same file we are using with FSUIPC... copied and pasted.

That's interesting, I've tried changing folders to the D drive, moving LUACOM.DLL into this new WideClient folder alongside WideClient and the Lua code, have changed the LUA package.path and package.cpath to ensure they recognise this folder and now LUACOM.DLL seems to be found so that is progress thanks. But now we get a new error that doesn't appear when using FSUIPC/Lua alone only WideFS/Lua, I wonder why? Error: 2406 LUA: Path D:/WideClient/?.dll; 2406 LUA: CPath D:/WideClient/?.dll; 2406 *** LUA Error: error loading module 'luacom' from file 'D:/WideClient/luacom.dll': D:/WideClient/luacom.dll:1: '=' expected near ''

Thanks I'm giving this a go

I wondered if anyone could help. I'm having problems getting a Lua script that has been run using WideFS to find the luacom.dll file whereas Lua opened using FSX FSUIPC directly finds it fine. The command is merely require("luacom"). I've checked the package.path and package.cpath and believe the file is in the appropriate location... but the WideClient log still reports: 18734 *** LUA Error: error loading module 'luacom' from file 'C:\Users\xxx xxx\OneDrive\Desktop\WideClient\modules\lua\luacom.dll': The specified module could not be found. Does anyone know of a fix?

Lol, I don't know what you did but it's worked now you've been looking at it. That's the 8th time I've done this. Now you're going to tell me you did nothing 😉 Thanks for looking into this John

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Yes, I did search for a different forum but could only see this one being close. As far as I can see the name and emails are identical across both purchases, the keys were copied from the two purchases straight off the SimMarket page. I did reinstall FSUIPC6 with the obligatory uninstall occurring first, FSUIPC6 registered OK, but only WideFS errored. I've tried a few times without success, triple checking everything.

Hi John Help please, I've read and reread manuals, websites, PDF's and everything else and am still lost. I have FSUIPC 6 registered fine for P3D v5 Pro, but want to add WideFS. I did purchase WideFS7 previously along with FSUIPC4 for FSX. Questions: Is WideFS7 the correct version for P3Dv5 as SimMarket states it works with FSUIPC4 and P3D V3.x, P3D V4.x My old WideFS7 key purchased with FSUIPC4 isn't working when registering FSUIPC6, despite the same name and email. Do I need another key? Help Thanks Confused

Yeah, no problem. Thanks for the response.

Good afternoon John, would it be possible to get a new key please? I've just moved to P3D from FSX and my old key (everything inc Email and name copied and pasted) isn't working for some reason. My original order is 1468298 FSUIPC and WideFS. Kind Regards and thanks for the help. Ian Dale