cuevision Posted October 22, 2017 Report Posted October 22, 2017 Hi Pete, Never had any problems with WXR. Since last week I went to P3Dv4.1. I do not know if this could be the reason of the lack of the WXR radar on My ND. When I use the integrated weather themes from P3D like building storms or major thunderstorms, it works, but when I use ASN, it does not work. I Followed all advises as mentioned above and please have a look at the attached files. I use the WX RDR from CPFlight. Can you advise? Thanks and regards, Ed FSUIPC5.ini FSUIPC5.log
Pete Dowson Posted October 23, 2017 Report Posted October 23, 2017 14 hours ago, cuevision said: Never had any problems with WXR. Since last week I went to P3Dv4.1. I do not know if this could be the reason of the lack of the WXR radar on My ND. When I use the integrated weather themes from P3D like building storms or major thunderstorms, it works, but when I use ASN, it does not work. I Followed all advises as mentioned above and please have a look at the attached files. I use the WX RDR from CPFligh Sorry, I don't know "WX RDR". The FSUIPC facilities for ASP4 are aimed only at ProSim. Other applications do their own thing, FSUIPC is not involved. Pete
cuevision Posted October 23, 2017 Report Posted October 23, 2017 Hi Pete, Thanks for the reply. its all Prosim. CPflight is Integrated in de Prosim panels. No difference, no change. This WXR radarpanel is integrated in de pedestalpanel from Prosim. And it all worked in the previous 4 versions from FSUIPC.
Pete Dowson Posted October 23, 2017 Report Posted October 23, 2017 59 minutes ago, cuevision said: its all Prosim. CPflight is Integrated in de Prosim panels. No difference, no change. This WXR radarpanel is integrated in de pedestalpanel from Prosim. And it all worked in the previous 4 versions from FSUIPC. Have you tried just using ProSim's WXR display facilities? I've seen reports on the Prosim forum that this works. (https://prosim-ar.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=12738) Is your CPflight WX RDR program using the file generated by ActiveSky and placed in your ProSim panel, or is it making up its own image? If the latter then FSUIPC is not involved, except you should probably remove the radar file path line in the INI, as ActiveSky might not like trying to serve two clients. Pete
cuevision Posted October 23, 2017 Report Posted October 23, 2017 Again thnks Pete It was so easy in the older days. It seems all is going to fast. From (for me) P3D3 to version 4 in a fast period of time. I have sometimes the idea developers are releasing to fast. As also for the numurous of software addon developers which are not able to follow that fast road too. Because of your reply, I think ASN and Prosim are not love each other. As soon as I open ASN, the Radar.bin is created and loaded in a rainy environment. The weather radar is driven by Prosim so no own image for the WXR panel (See attachment). There is no software for this panel needed, just a driver for connecting to Prosim and use their variables. Nothing changed when I remove the radar.bin or reuse it. So I think it is not FSUIPC related. Will investigate it further, however I am a bit disapointed. For now thanks and regards, Ed
Pete Dowson Posted October 23, 2017 Report Posted October 23, 2017 3 hours ago, cuevision said: Because of your reply, I think ASN and Prosim are not love each other. As soon as I open ASN, the Radar.bin is created So if the radar.bin is created for ProSim to read, FSUIPC + ASN have done their jobs. The rest is up to ProSim. Reading the ProSim forums regularly I have seen posts saying that certai versions did mess this up. Find a version that works. There are about 90 Betas uploaded now! BTW, FSUIPC is also capable of producing its own graphic, in BMP format. You need to have another line to the FSUIPC5.INI file. I implemented that and presented both to marty, and he preferred the raw data and to make his own bitmap. Details are in the document in your FSUIPC Documents folder. Pete
cuevision Posted October 24, 2017 Report Posted October 24, 2017 Hello Pete, I have found it. As you said in your last reply it could be Prosim causing this. And it was. I went back to Prosim 1.48, as a test, a version that had always worked nice for me. As soon as I clicked WXR on my EFIS, weather radar started instantly. I left all settings you mentioned above and which I followed untouched and it does its work. So now I will install the latest beta of Prosim, hoping it will work with that one. I reply if what this latest beta l do in this. Thanks for all. Thanks for your patience and thanks for defending your product, which most of the time aint causing problems, like now! Best regards, Ed
PeterNielsen Posted October 31, 2017 Report Posted October 31, 2017 On 07/02/2016 at 6:09 PM, Pete Dowson said: Hi Pete. Looks like Enrico has at long last released an update to his PMGetWeather that now appears to allow for Active sky weather radar to display into the Project Magenta PFD's but as usual his instructions are vague..as this is what it says to do. FSUIPC.INI file: [General] Section ASNwxRadarBitmapPath=\\PMComputer\NetDir\myRadarFile.bmp pmGetweather.ini file: ActiveSkyFile=\\PMComputer\NetDir\myRadarFile.bmp //This is the file you have defined in the FSUIPC.INI file //For instance: ASNwxRadarBitmapPath=\\PMComputer\NetDir\myRadarFile.bmp //If it is on a networked computer then you have to specify //the filename: ActiveSkyFile=\\PMComputer\NetDir\myRadarFile.bmp I am confused and have not been able to get this to work my set up is as follows I have Prepa3d V4.1 running on a PC Called P3D2017 I have Active Sky Next on the same PC. I.e P3D2017 I have Project Magenta Captain Displays on a PC Called CPT I have Project Magenta CDU on a PC called CDU and on this PC i have the NETDIR folder So looking at the instructions above what do i need to do as i cant get it to work.. do i need also to run anything within Active Sky?? Cheers and Thanks Peter Nielsen On 07/02/2016 at 6:09 PM, Pete Dowson said: I asked Enrico to support this long ago, when I first added the WX radar support for ASN to FSUIPC. I even offered to do some of the work if he would only give me formatting information for the ND files. But alas nothing happened. He said he would get to it ...? I have switched to ProSim as of 15 moths ago. Pete
Pete Dowson Posted October 31, 2017 Report Posted October 31, 2017 2 hours ago, PeterNielsen said: I am confused and have not been able to get this to work The instructions seem clear enough. What are you confused about? 2 hours ago, PeterNielsen said: I have Active Sky Next on the same PC. I.e P3D2017 Active Sky Next won't work properly with P3D 4.1. You need the new Active Sky for P3D4! 2 hours ago, PeterNielsen said: I have Project Magenta CDU on a PC called CDU and on this PC i have the NETDIR folder So you need to change the computer name "PMcomputer" to "CDU". What's the problem with that? BTW what is wrong with PM support? Don't they have a support forum now? Pete
PeterNielsen Posted November 3, 2017 Report Posted November 3, 2017 Tks Pete, I can confirm I use Active Sky for P3D4 and also that i renamed the path or PC Name as suggested above. The result is that PMGetWeather now shows a positive in that it it saving a BMP image every 10 or so seconds called myRadarFile.bmp and indeed this bmp is saved within the NetDir, however it saves a black rectangle. no returns no nothing and i have placed the a/c in different places with rain, storm etc to test. therefore I wonder if I am missing any other command entries in different places. Tks Peter PS BTW what is wrong with PM support? Don't they have a support forum now? they have note had a support forum since 2012 or thereabouts.
Pete Dowson Posted November 6, 2017 Report Posted November 6, 2017 On 11/3/2017 at 9:45 AM, PeterNielsen said: The result is that PMGetWeather now shows a positive in that it it saving a BMP image every 10 or so seconds called myRadarFile.bmp and indeed this bmp is saved within the NetDir, however it saves a black rectangle. no returns no nothing and i have placed the a/c in different places with rain, storm etc to test. therefore I wonder if I am missing any other command entries in different places. If the bitmap is being produced then it indicates FSUIPC is receiving data from Active Sky, and using it. It may be that the Active Sky parts aren't working properly, or that the parameters you are using to request the weather are not set correctly -- eg using a downward tilt angle whilst on the ground, or setting a silly range. The parameters are set by FSUIPC offsets as documented. You can check thse by using FSUIPC's Monitor facilities on the Logging tab. Try slewing up and placing yourself in the middle of the rain cloud layer. Pete
737MaxDriver2 Posted July 8, 2020 Report Posted July 8, 2020 Hey Pete, Currently running: FSUIPC6 6.0.5 - 4/28/20 Sim-Avionics v1.97 P3dv5 Build 5.0.31.35253 ASN 5 Beta build 7487 Not getting the radar.bin or the bitmap file generated. at this point, forget SIm-A, just trying to get the files generated on the P3D computer local drive. P3d and ASN running on the same PC FSUIPC.INI: [General] UpdatedByVersion=6005 History=56M00WYAR6CG48GH50TEN AxesWrongRange=No TCASid=Flight TCASrange=40,3 AxisCalibration=No DirectAxesToCalibs=No ShowMultilineWindow=Yes SuppressSingleline=No SuppressMultilineFS=No AxisIntercepts=No DontResetAxes=No ThreadAffinityMask=x0 LuaAffinityMask=x0 InitDelay=0 GetNearestAirports=Yes LogOptionProtect=Yes TimeForLuaClosing=2 WeatherReadFactor=2 WeatherRewriteSeconds=1 TrafficStallTime=1 InitialStallTime=10 NormalStallTime=1 LuaRerunDelay=66 ComReadLoopTime=20 Console=No ConsoleWindowTopMost=No ProvideAIdata=Yes ProvideAIairports=Yes InitDelayDevicesToo=No PMDG737offsets=Auto PMDG747offsets=Auto PMDG777offsets=Auto Annotate=Yes UseSystemTime=No UseMidMouseBtn=Yes MouseWheelMove=No MouseWheelTrim=No MouseWheelTrimSpeed=1 JoystickTimeout=20 RestoreSimcWindows=No FixMachSpeedBug=No AutoScanDevices=Yes DisconnTrimForAP=No ZeroElevForAPAlt=No ThrottleSyncAll=No WhiteMessages=No ShowPMcontrols=No SpoilerIncrement=512 MagicBattery=Yes RudderSpikeRemoval=No ElevatorSpikeRemoval=No AileronSpikeRemoval=No ReversedElevatorTrim=No ClockSync=Yes ClockSyncMins=5 ClearWeatherDynamics=No TimeForSelect=4 LoadFlightMenu=No LoadPlanMenu=No PauseAfterCrash=No BrakeReleaseThreshold=75 SaveDataWithFlights=No ZapSound=firework ZapAirRange=1.50 ZapGroundRange=0.25 ZapCylinderAltDiff=0 ShortAircraftNameOk=Substring UseProfiles=Yes EnableMouseLook=No DelayedMouseLookZoom=No WideLuaGlobals=Yes LogWeather=Yes ConsoleWindow=66,811,1059,1330 ControlsListBuild=35253 ASNwxRadarPath=c:\jeffwx\radar.bin ASNwxRadarBitmapPath=C:\jeffwx\WxRadar.bmp FSVersionUsed="Lockheed Martin® Prepar3D® v5",5.0.31.35253 SimConnectUsed=5.0.0.0 [WideServer] WideFSenabled=Yes AdvertiseService=1 Port=8002 Port2=9002 [Traffic Limiter] AirportPreference=50 PlannedAirportsPreference=50 GroundPreference=50 NearerPreference=50 TargetFrameRate=0 TrafficLimit=0 [JoyNames] AutoAssignLetters=No 0=Saitek Pro Flight Combat Rudder Pedals 0.GUID={357A53D0-8A1F-11EA-8004-444553540000} 1=Saitek Pro Flight Yoke 1.GUID={35A0A080-8A1F-11EA-8005-444553540000} [JoystickCalibration] RudderBlendLowest=1 AllowSuppressForPFCquad=Yes ExcludeThrottleSet=Yes ExcludeMixtureSet=Yes ExcludePropPitchSet=Yes SepRevsJetsOnly=No ApplyHeloTrim=No UseAxisControlsForNRZ=No FlapsSetControl=0 FlapDetents=No ReverserControl=66292 Reverser1Control=66422 Reverser2Control=66425 Reverser3Control=66428 Reverser4Control=66431 MaxThrottleForReverser=256 AileronTrimControl=66731 RudderTrimControl=66732 CowlFlaps1Control=66162 CowlFlaps2Control=66163 CowlFlaps3Control=66164 CowlFlaps4Control=66165 SteeringTillerControl=0 MaxSteerSpeed=60 Aileron=-16380,-512,512,16380 Elevator=-16380,-512,512,16380 LeftBrake=-16380,16380/16 RightBrake=-16380,16380/16 [Axes] PollInterval=10 RangeRepeatRate=10 0=0X,1,D,7,0,0,0 -{ DIRECT: LeftBrake }- 1=0Y,256,D,8,0,0,0 -{ DIRECT: RightBrake }- 2=0R,256,D,3,0,0,0 -{ DIRECT: Rudder }- 3=1X,1,D,1,0,0,0 -{ DIRECT: Aileron }- 4=1Y,256,D,2,0,0,0 -{ DIRECT: Elevator }- [Buttons] PollInterval=25 ButtonRepeat=20,10 1=R1,2,Cx010053F4,x02 -{offset byte set, offset 53F4}- 2=R1,3,Cx010053F4,x01 -{offset byte set, offset 53F4}- 3=U1,2,Cx010053F4,x00 -{offset byte set, offset 53F4}- 4=U1,3,Cx010053F4,x00 -{offset byte set, offset 53F4}- 7=P1,36,Cx020053DB,x0227 -{offset word set, offset 53DB}- [AutoSave] Interval=60 Files=10 SaveOnGround=No AutoSaveEnabled=No [GPSout] GPSoutEnabled=No Port=COM1 Speed=4800 Interval=2000 PosTo6Decimal=No SimModeIndicator=No Sentences= [GPSout2] GPSoutEnabled=No Port=<none set> Speed=4800 Interval=2000 PosTo6Decimal=No SimModeIndicator=No Sentences= [Sounds] Path=C:\Program Files\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D v5\Sound\ Device1=Primary Sound Driver Device2=Speakers (Realtek(R) Audio) Device3=Optoma 1080P (2- NVIDIA High Definition Audio) Device4=Realtek Digital Output (Realtek(R) Audio) Device5=Headphones (FSX DUAL) Device6=CABLE Input (VB-Audio Virtual Cable) [ClientNames] 1=AVIONICS 2=DESKTOP-EDKLH5O 3=MIP [AutoSaveFilesV5] Next=1 FSUIPC6.LOG: FSUIPC6 Key is provided WideFS7 Key is provided 1182078 System time = 08/07/2020 15:21:20, Simulator time = 19:12:07 (02:12Z) 1182078 FLT UNC path = "C:\Users\Sim\Documents\Prepar3D v5 Files\" [Continuation log requested by user] Running inside Prepar3D v5 on Windows 10 Module base=7FFE0BE80000 1182656 Weather Read request (At Aircrft) to area 4: Lat=47.44, Lon=-122.30, Alt=134.5, Req=2 1182687 Weather Received (type 4 request, Interpolated): "????&A0 260212Z 00000KT&D609NG 100KM&B-457&D5029 CLR 14/04 Q1013 " 1182687 WX Received in (31 mSecs), WX request type 4, Lat=47.4418, Lon=-122.3045, Alt=134.5m 1186828 === Closing session: waiting for DLLStop to be called ... 1199218 === DLLStop called ... 1199218 === Closing external processes we started ... 1200218 === About to kill any Lua plug-ins still running ... 1200375 === Closing global Lua thread 1201390 === About to kill my timers ... 1201578 === Restoring window procs ... 1201578 === Unloading libraries ... 1201578 === stopping other threads ... 1201578 === ... Button scanning ... 1201687 === ... Axis scanning ... 1201781 === Releasing joystick devices ... 1201781 === Freeing macro memory 1201781 === Removing any offset overrides 1201781 === Closing all WideFS threads 1203140 === Clearing any displays left 1203140 === NOTE: not calling SimConnect_Close ... 1203140 === AI slots deleted! 1203140 === Freeing button memory ... 1203140 === Deleting wxstationlist.bin file ... 1203140 === Closing my Windows ... 1203140 === Freeing FS libraries ... 1204140 === Closing devices ... 1204140 === Closing the Log ... Bye Bye! ... 1204140 System time = 08/07/2020 15:21:42, Simulator time = 19:12:09 (02:12Z) 1204140 *** FSUIPC log file being closed Minimum frame rate was 21.8 fps, Maximum was 30.0 fps Average frame rate for running time of 1076 secs = 28.0 fps Maximum AI traffic for session was 0 aircraft Memory managed: 500 Allocs, 499 Freed ********* FSUIPC Log file closed ***********
John Dowson Posted July 9, 2020 Report Posted July 9, 2020 Please update to the latest version, v6.0.9. There was an update in v6.0.8 for P3Dv5 Active Sky compatibility - see John
737MaxDriver2 Posted July 9, 2020 Report Posted July 9, 2020 Ba-Da-Bing... Ba-Da-Boom.... Problem solved ! ! ! ! Thanks, John!!!
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