Pete Dowson

Yes, it was fixed in quite a substantial update some time ago. Thanks anyway! Regards, Pete

Thanks. Two weeks is in Cuba, a steam railway tour (I am a steam train nut as well as an aviation one! :) ). The Cuba flights go via Madrid, where our son lives. We usually go and visit him once or twice a year, for a week, in any case, so we thought we'd save some cash :wink: by visiting him on the way back! Best regards, Pete

ErI assume you mean the FS2000 path doesn't work? Odd that, It seems to here. There's more to this than meets the eye! Anyway, I'll re-check it all when I get back. It does only handle two FS paths, and they should be EITHER FS2000 and FS2002, or FS2002 and FS2004. There's really no difference between them all in any case, it is merely two paths to copy the .PLN file to. Maybe I'll change it so you can have all three in any case! :wink: Best, Pete

I'll ask Enrico. There still needs to be an "FSUIPC.ZIP" with the current version, because there are many links to it all over the place. I'll ask Enrico if he wouldn't mind duplicating the file with the version number in it too. Regards, Pete

Yes, thank you. I've passed on the details to SimMarket's manager. They take positive action on my behalf. The key will be blocked in due course, but I think SimMarket also take other actions. I am on holiday after today until March 12th, so apart from notifying SimMarket of your findings I can do little else at present. Thank you very much for telling me. Best regards, Pete

Sorry, it sounds like your ISP is one of the usual culprits. It will sort itself eventually, but I don't think anything Enrico or I can do will help it. The file is too large to attach here. You could try writing to Enrico and see if he can also put it up under a different name, perhaps "FSUIPC314.zip" -- I think some ISP servers must cache the files by name and don't check for changes in date and so on. The main file has to be called FSUIPC.zip because there are lots of links to it from all over the place, but it doesn't stop there being alternatives. Just more work and space. Regards, Pete P.S. After today I am on holiday until March 12th, so please forgive any delays in replies.

ErI've not changed that, and it doesn't do that here. I use both paths too -- one for FS2002 and one for FS2004. I'm not really able to suggest anything today, too busy preparing for holidays. If you can't sort it, can you remind me when I return on March 12th please? I'll make a note here too. Sorry. Thank you! Pete P.S. After today I am on holiday until March 12th, so please forgive any delays in replies.

[quote="PhilippeV8 It doesn't give any example code as to actually use the thing. My version here does. Thank you! Pete

FSUIPC already provides a control, which you can program on button or keypress, to set the AI traffic level or toggle it between your setting and 0. This only applies to FS2004. If you are operating through the IPC interface you can send keystrokes or buttons there too, but obviously you'd need to program the chosen method in FSUIPC's options. Regards, Pete

I am really pleased you find it useful! Makes the work on it so worthwhile. :D Regards, Pete

Sounds good. But it won't be so efficient for FS sending all of the sentences if only one or two will do. Can you find out what sentences the programs actually need? If it isn't documented, then by trial-and-error I presume. Then I'll put some details in the GPSout "read.me" for others. Oh, and the full names and web-sites for the programs too, please. Thanks & Good flying! :) Pete

Well if you mean on Enrico Schiratti's site, I know for certain that it was 3.20 since Saturday. It sounds like either your PC or your ISP are caching the file. Try flushing you browser's cache. If that doesn't work, try again, or contact your ISP and complain. I don't know of any easy solution. It seems to happen with some ISPs every time -- in fact I think Enrico put a note up about it on that very page. Did you check? It may give some advice. If it's another website then contact them please and tell them to update. I distribute to many different places, though I know they don't all upload it. I don't maintain any web-sites as such, by the way. Any problems really need to be dealt with by whatever service you choose to use. Regards, Pete

If by "my module" you mean FSUIPC, then, no. It is passive, not active. Other things interface to it, it doesn't interface to anything but FS itself. You'd need to write an interface program. see the FSUIPC SDK, available from www.schiratti.com\dowson. The only module I've written that does anything on a LAN is WideServer, which talks to WideClient using TCP/IP or IPX/SPX. But it isn't broadcasting. It uses sequential addressed protocol only -- IP or SPX. And the data is specific between those modules, both part of WideFS. I don't know. Sorry. Maybe some other readers will know. Regards, Pete

Sorry, I don't fully understand what you mean. There is a GPS implementation in FS -- are you wanting to interface to that? In FS2004 you can read out quite a lot of the GPS stuff (see the Programmer's Guide, offsets 6000 and following), but I'm not sure what happens if you try to write to that area. If you mean you want to be able to tell the FS A/P to follow a specific heading, then, yes, of course you can do that -- enable Heading hold at 07C8 and then set the Heading required at 07CC. If the A/P is enabled then it will guuide the direction of the aircraft. If not, then the Flight Director (if enabled) will hlep the pilot follow the route. Regards, Pete

Okayplease let us know if you do. there may be others interested too! Regards, Pete

It sounds like you've connected your PCs as a Network. There are no IP addresses used in a one-to-one serial connection. It's just three wires -- read, write and common, with the read and write crossed over. GPSout and FliteStar connect by serial cable. there is no GPS input to FliteStar other than on a serial port as far as I know. Did you check? The README file I supply clearly says "connect your flying PC to your moving map PC with a serial "null modem" cable (ie send and receive crossed over), and configure your map program accordingly.". I do not know of any NMEA standard for GPS connection via Network, whether Ethernet or USB or any other means. I think it only works with a simple dedicated COM port (serial) connection. If you know of a moving map application which can receive standard GPS input by any other means please let me have full details, and also the GPS devices which can provide such output. Have you checked the FliteStar documentation to see how it wants the connection? My FliteMap only allows COM ports to be selected, with selectable line speed. You can run it in test mode to see what is arriving and whether it is accepted. Sorry, I have no idea. I didn't realise you could get Palm PDAs with ordinary COM ports -- my Garmin iQue 3600 (using Palm OS 5) has only got the usual USB connection for HotSync. Regards, Pete

Just overwrite the DLLs (and the WideClient.EXE's). The registrations are kept in the FSUIPC.KEY file, for both. Keep a copy of that safe, print it as well. The INI files only contain your preferences and settings. Regards, Pete

Sorry, no, I have no idea how to deal with that then --- it seems a rather odd of Microsoft to supply a control to reload aircraft if it doesn't actually reload from the files. Maybe it is only relaoding the AIR file or the performance data from the CFG file? Maybe it's for those who design aircraft who need to keep tweaking parameters and re-testing the flight characteristics. I can only hope that someone who knows about these things can chip in and help. Maybe there's an aircraft designers forum or newsgroup some place? Otherwise, it is looking as if you will have to resort to reloading the flight after all, isn't it? Regards Pete

Ah, sorry. I didn't see you said "I registered WideFS - version 5.50". I should have corrected you there. There was NO registration, no payment at all, for FSUIPC before version 3 nor for WideFS before version 6. There's no registration which you could have made for 5.50 which will carry over to version 6.xx. Sorry to have misled you. But if you were running with FSUIPC 3.11 before you couldn't have been using WideFS 5.50 in any case -- only WideFS 6.xx works with FSUIPC 3.xx. Regards, Pete

Only that FSUIPC will recognise GoFlight buttons and dials, so you can assign to those any of the keypresses or controls listed in FSUIPC's keys or buttons pages. Please read the User Guide on this, I did try to explain. It is probably of more interest to users of Project Magenta and other non-FS cockpits. Only if those products accept keystrokes or can be controlled through documented FSUIPC offsets (PM is one of the latter -- althogh it accepts keystrokes too). Note, however, that FSUIPC does not drive GoFlight displays or indicators. I'm not sure what to do about those yet. Maybe another add-on later. Regards, Pete

Yes, of course. I dare not take things out once put in. Folks would complain and not upgrade. I cannot support old versions. Pete

No, certainly not. Your registrations last the life of FSUIPC 3.xx and WideFS 6.xx respectively, at least. I don't want folks using old versions. I cannot support old versions! Regards, Pete

The FSUIPC facility only adjusts the seconds to keep the SAME difference between FS time and the system time all the way through the session (well, until you load a flight with a new time, or change the time yourself). Please just re-read the User Guide on this option: If you want the FS time to be equal to the system time, I think that's an FS flight-loading option, although mainly I find I have to go into the Time menu and set it. Regards, Pete

Almost all external applications which use FSUIPC to talk to FS will work on a WideFS client too. There is a list on the right-hand side of the page at http://www.schiratti.com/dowson. Some of those will be aircraft or FS panels, so they won't work that way, but the rest should. It's unusual to come into WideFS in this way -- it's more usual to have a need, and use WideFS as part of the solution! :lol: There are moving maps like Ted Wright's NAV3, which is a real good candidate for this. Of course my own WeatherSet and TrafficLook. Any of the external weather programs like FSMeteo or ActiveSky. Fancy instrumentation such as that from Project Magenta.et cetera. Regards. Pete

There's only ever one proper valid current version of FSUIPC, and at present that is 3.20. Get it from http://www.schiratti.com/dowson. Please check the announcements at the top of this forum for more details of versions. Regards, Pete