Quote from: tim arnot on November 11, 2009, 03:09:56 PM
Sorry, that's my fault for not reading the question properly.  ::) The solution I gave will make it work on the same PC, not across the network.

If you have set upSimConnect.xml on your FS PC (for beta 2) then you are halfway there.

In 0.8, the Simconnect.cfg on the client PC is no more. Instead, the settings are made in the options dialog (I referred to this in my other answer). You will need to take the values that you had in the Simconnect.cfg file, and place them in the FS Connection tab

so:

Set Network Mode to IPv4
Set FSX Computer to 192.168.0.3 (or whatever your FS PC IP address is)
Set Server Port/Pipe to 500 (or whatever you defined in the Simconnect.cfg & xml)

Me again !  ;D

Have done as above, my PlanG on the laptop works, loads the scenery, flight plans etc and when I ask it to connect it connects (simconnect) but with an error message..

'Unable to connect to remote Flight Simulator (timeout).
Check FSX is running, and that your protocol settings are correct.'


Any ideas?

Thanks.  :-[

Ooops, forgot to state the problem is that my little yellow plane doesn't show up !

Hi,

If you click on the yellow plane in the top left hand corner of PLan G, then click on the OPTIONS tab located on the bottom rail of that window, then click on the FS Display tab....

.... you should get 'User Aircraft' and 'Display' just under the TAB heading.

Sync has 3 options... Free, Sync, and Lock. If you place your cursor over them, a text will appear explaining the display properties (i.e. follow plane or keep centred etc)

That should give you the display property you were looking for.

I've only had PlanG for less than two weeks so forgive me if that was a load of tosh !!   :D

Simon C

 :-[

Forgive me if this has been dealt with in the past, I've never set up two puters before and have surprised myself by doing so first time successfully !! Anyhoo,

My netbook (with XP) is communicating/file sharing ok with my desktop (also on XP).

I have PlanG on my netbook, it has found the FSX.exe and scenery.cfg files that are on my Desktop (I have used the options tab in PlanG to tell it where they were) and PlanG has loaded fine, created the database and loads flight plans etc just fine in offline mode.

When I ask it to connect to FSX I get...

Unable to connect to Flight Simulator. (Is FS running?)
If you are using FS9, check you have FSUIPC installed
Please see the log for more details.

So, I looked at the log  :o

Right, so my eyes glazed over and my brain went a bit mushy but I spotted the following which my help those of you who are in the know !   ;D

10:59:03 FSUIPC.Connect
10:59:03 Error opening FSUIPC: FSUIPC.FSUIPCException: FSUIPC Error #2: FSUIPC_ERR_NOFS. Cannot find FSUIPC or WideFS running on this machine.
   at FSUIPC.FSUIPCConnection.Open(FlightSim RequiredFlightSimVersion)
   at FSUIPC.FSUIPCConnection.Open()
   at FS.FSUIPC.Connect()
11:00:35 RibbonButton_Click_ConnectFS
11:00:35 SimConnect.Connect
11:00:35 SimConnect.Connect - local
11:00:35 SimConnect Connect failed: BeatlesBlog.SimConnect.SimConnect+SimConnectException: Pipe Connection Failed ---> System.IO.IOException: You were not connected because a duplicate name exists on the network. Go to System in Control Panel to change the computer name and try again.

   at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)
   at System.IO.Pipes.NamedPipeClientStream.Connect(Int32 timeout)
   at BeatlesBlog.SimConnect.SimConnect.Networking.Connect()
   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
   at BeatlesBlog.SimConnect.SimConnect.Networking.Connect()
   at BeatlesBlog.SimConnect.SimConnect.OpenCommon(String strAppName)
   at BeatlesBlog.SimConnect.SimConnect.Open(String strAppName, String strHostName, String strPipeName)
   at BeatlesBlog.SimConnect.SimConnect.Open(String strAppName)
   at FS._SimConnect.Connect()
11:00:35 FSUIPC.Connect
11:00:35 Error opening FSUIPC: FSUIPC.FSUIPCException: FSUIPC Error #2: FSUIPC_ERR_NOFS. Cannot find FSUIPC or WideFS running on this machine.
   at FSUIPC.FSUIPCConnection.Open(FlightSim RequiredFlightSimVersion)
   at FSUIPC.FSUIPCConnection.Open()
   at FS.FSUIPC.Connect()

I'm guessing I need to tell it that FSX is running on the other machine (Desktop) but I thought it new and if not, how do I do it?

Is something else?

I'm affraid my programming skills stop at VB chapter one ! ::)

Oh, the 'computer name' bit confused me because my computers don't share the same name.



Thanks for any help,

Simon
G-DWMS
cix vfr club