Pete Dowson

No no. the privilege level differences are between "administrator" and "elevated administrator". When did you purchase your registration? There appears to be no record of this name. I suspect the registration code you have is invalid. Delete the FSUIPC.KEY file from the FS modules folder and i think you'll find everything works. Please confirm. Pete

Strange. Maybe the info I've got from Goflight isn't quite right. The code I've put in isn't selective -- especially with the switches, which are just "plonked in". GF are sending me a SECM to test with, but I'd thought I'd be "more than ready"! ;-) You say "3 those switches (lights, the ones on top)", but in the pictures of the SECM on the GoFlight website there are no lights on top, the row of light switches are grouped bottom right. Could yours be a different model? Are there more than one type? Could you do me a favour, please, and actually list the results (button numbers) for each action (give switch label) -- both on and off (and on again) if different, and each position I can then try to match that information against the data I've got. (I've actually found some conflicting information here too, but neither explains what you are seeing!). Regards Pete

The way FSUIPC links to SimConnect dynamically can produce such entries in the Event log. they are not real errors but results of FSUIPC probing for versions of SimConnect you don't have installed. There's a write-up about this in the FSUIPC User Guide. According to Microsoft there's no way of suppressing these, so i had to document them instead. Hmmm. Maybe that's true on Vista, though I don't understand why. On my XP system my "My documents" folder is on my I: drive, whilst Windows is on C: as usual. Regards Pete

Actually the new Profile facilities are probably a much better option -- the management of aircraft specific options can get quite heavy and laborious. Most folks would only have a handful of setups of different types, and a Profile for each one works better than exact assigns for specific aircraft. Pete

I think something like that was done once, a few years ago. But Austin changes X-Plane so fast that it never worked for long (or, at least, that was the story I was told). I'm sorry, it wouldn't be me starting such a project. There's nothing wrong with someone else taking up the challenge - and in fact there is already a program of mine, licensed to Project Magenta, which can act as a Server for such a program, servicing WideClients on other PCs. It actually all happened, once, but didn't last long. I am 66 years old this year and I'm really trying to do less programming and more flying and holidaying as I get older still. It hasn't been working so far -- I had hoped SimConnect would take a load off me for FSX and ESP, but it wasn't to be. However, I'm certainly not looking to take on more work at this time. I have enough on my plate. Regards Pete

There are third party programs which do that. Look at pmSounds, It's Your Place and Flight Deck Companion. Pete

If you have FS set to run "as administrator" and then run FSUIPC applications as a normal user or ordinary administrator, Wndows (especially Vista) actually prevents FS and the other program exchanging data. If you run one side "as administator" then you must do the same with the others. These are different levels of privilege -- different access capabilities. There is nothing else I'm aware of which could stop a connection completely. However, if the code signature of the FSUIPC.DLL module is failing to check, it will cause incorrect values to be sent to client programs and they may not like that. Find the FSUIPC.LOG file, in the FS Modules folder, and show it to me. Regards Pete

No idea, sorry. I tried to locate this zone, but failed. Must be quite small. A LAt/Lon might help find it? Regards Pete Regards Pete

Maybe the side-by-side library system will be better behaved in Windows 7? Let's hope so. I'll be installing the 64-bit version of "Windows 7 Ultimate" Beta within the next week or so, to see what benefits it might provide for FSX performance -- I've heard only good things so far! But I don't think I want to try uninstalling FSX/SimConnect just to see if it gives me the same pains! I'll leave that till forced to uninstall the Beta because of expiry. Regards Pete

It sounds like the panel for that add-on aircraft has a bug in its coding, then. Have you checked for an update? Or else I think you should report it to the authors. Regards Pete

Sorry for the delay on this, but I only just received the updates on this from GoFlight. I've added support for the GF-SECM unit to the latest FSUIPC updates (see the Updates announcement above), but I've no way of testing the change here. If you are still interested, please try the update and let me know. Regards Pete

Please download FSUIPC 3.865 which I think now works okay for flap axis calibration on the PMDG aircraft. Regards Pete

Not at present there isn't. I'll take a look. If it is easy enough to do, I'll add it as another [buttons] parameter. Okay, please download the latest FSUIPC update from the Updates announcement above. There's an enhanced ButtonRepeat capability, and the default setting should meet your needs in any case. Regards Pete

Okay, version 4.425 is now available with this fix. Please see the Updates announcement above. Regards Pete

I mean that you should NOT try to find "free" offsets yourself, but either use 66C0-66FF which are specifically allocated for personal use, or apply for specific offsets for a program or product you hope to distribute. There are no "free" ones otherwise -- even if they appear to be "unused" from FSInterrogate, they may simply be in use by a program you haven't got (yet). Regards Pete

You do realise that you appear to be replying to a message from over a month ago, don't you? Is this really the same problem? Have you been away for a month? Nothing of mine has anything to do with sound, so won't affect voices. In the above paragraph you seem to contradict yourself. You say "when I open my Flight Deck Companion (FDC)....I get all the voices fine", then later "I don't get the voices". I don't understand? What is it in FDC which starts and stops these "voices". I'm afraid I don't have the FDC package and know nothing about it, so you do certainly need help from Dave March if you have any problems with it. FSUIPC is not a "publisher". If you told Windows to always trust "Peter L. Dowson" then that name will be in Internet Explorer's "trusted publishers" list, not FSUIPC. By " a few files" you mean only the DLL.XML file? That's all you showed, and that's no help. Why did you think it might be? Where's the FSUIPC4.LOG file? If you suspect an FSUIPC4 problem, that is the file you need to look at. Is there an FSUIPC entry in the FSX Modules folder? You need to check! There should be NO simconnect files anywhere you should be looking at. The only SimConnect files are in the Windows side-by-side library folder and they are binary libraries, not "gibberish". Please try to be more explicit -- name what you are looking at precisely.. No! Most certainly not! Whatever gave you that idea? Why would you expect Microsoft to know anything about third party add-ons like FDC? Regards Pete

FSInterrogate will say whatever the particular FSI data file used with it tells it to say. The data file I supply with FSInterrogate only covers offsets being populated or assigned in FSUIPC itself. The two places you mention are part of a region which is assigned to third-party addons. You should be referring to the FSUIPC offset tables in the SDK in any case, as it contains more information, and in particular shows that those offsets are reserved for applications. Sorry, I don't know what all that means. What's BCD4T? I know BCD, but what does adding 4T to it mean? If you want offsets for private use, use the ones allocated for this -- 66C0 - 66FF, as listed for general use in the FSUIPC offset table. If you need offsets assigning for use in a program which others will also use, you should apply for an allocation. It is important for different programs to use separate offsets so that users and authors don't get some nasty shocks when two conflicting programs are run together. Regards Pete

Really? Are you saying that the radios are actively using the new frequencies, yet the (default?) FS gauges aren't updating to show them? If so that really sounds like a problem in the panel or the FS installation. The radio gauge most certainly gets its values from the same place as the part which detects reception. In older versions of FS, after changing the frequencies, you had to write values to one of the offsets 0388, 0389 or 038A -- but that was to make it re-scan the database to locate the radio transmitters, not to update the gauges. The latter are supposed to get updates automatically, at the frame rate or better. No. How are you actually determining that the new frequencies are actually being used? It sounds to me that you are not actually sending the Swap commands. Can you log the IPC writes to check what you are doing? I've just tried all 4 standby radio offsets here, and swapped them all both individually AND together via 3123. I am using FSInterrogate2, and the default FS9 737, with the radio stack showing. Even writing all 5 offsets together, setting and swapping en bulk works fine. Please also ALWAYS state the version number of FSUIPC when asking questions about it. If you are not using at least 3.85, please update. You may want to also check the version I am using, available in the Updates announcement above. Regards Pete

I'd need to see the logging. Set IPC read and write logging and also Weather logging. Do one test which doesn't work, and show me, or send me (petedowson@btconnect.com) the ZIPPED log. First, with the logging enabled, try reading a specific ICAO of your choice using WeatherSet2. That uses the NWI. (WeatherSet, the original, uses the older AWI). Sorry, before I look at anything at all, please update your FSUIPC to a supported version. 4.40 is the minimum I will deal with -- that's been available since the middle of November 2008. However, just a quickie: your read request for EGLL seems to have been recognised. but fails to get any response from SimConnect: 24315766 Weather Read request (At Station) to area 3: ICAO="EGLL", Req=0 24319453 WX Error: timed out, WX request type 3, ICAO=EGLL Not seen one of those errors for a long time -- FSX Simconnect since SP2/Acceleration has been pretty responsive. Pete

I've been poring through the part of FS which processes the mouse clicking, and I think I've discovered a way which may well solve your problem with mouse macros and the APU switch. I'm working on it now and should have an update for you to try this weekend, probably tomorrow (Sunday). Please look out for it, then try it out. Try programming the APU switch (yet again). I'd like to see the resulting Macro file entries whether it works or not, please. [LATER] Okay, the latest FSUIPC updates, in the Updates Announcement, may enable you to get that APU switch working with mouse macros. Please let me know. Regards Pete

A few months ago? Maybe it was for an older version? You should at least be on version 4.40 (FSX) or 3.85 (FS9). There are later versions above, as I said, with newer facilities which may suit your needs better. Pete

Ah, sorry. I hadn't realised that PMDG had used something different there as well. Ok, good. Another way possible usually with PMDG panels is to program a mouse macro in FSUIPC for that function, and then assign that. This works for virtually all ops on the overhead -- I do know that -- so I assume it should work for other parts of the cockpit. Regards Pete

The answer is in the documentation supplied with FSUIPC. Yes. Please refer to the documentation. In particular check the Appendix to the Advanced User's guide entitled "About the Aircraft specific option ....". You might find it better in the long run to use the new Profile system, developed recently. This enables you to establish a profile of settings, with a name assigned by yourself, and assign aircraft to it as you need. To use this facility, please download the latest update from the "Updates" announcement above and read the short document about it included. Regards Pete

Saying "latest version" isn't helpful I'm afraid. It only means the latest you've seen and I don't know where you looked. Please always state version NUMBERS. They aren't hard to find, after all. My FSMeteo Version 7.0 quit downloading (froze during TAF portion of download) after I installed FSUIPC update ... What is best way to correct this problem Pete? No idea, sorry. There's nothing in any of the facilities FSMeteo uses that have changed in years. If you are using FSMeteo from a WideFS client for the first time, then possibly your Network isn't working as well as you'd hoped? Check the WideServer and WideClient Logs for errors. If you are using FSUIPC4 (for FSX -- you don't even mention what version of FS you are using!) then possibly you have SimConnect problems. Look in the FSUIPC4 log file too. Pete

Missing numbers don't matter much in these files, so you can just omit the line. There is a maximum number (999 I think in Macro files), that's all. The only restrictions on missing numbers so far are in the new [Profile. ...] sections of the INI. This is because all of those are scanned every time a flight or aircraft is loaded so scanning to a maximum number would affect performance more noticeably. The other stuff tends to be loaded either only once, or when requested in the Options, or only singly rather than all at once. Regards Pete