Would some one be willing to take some time to walk me through networking Plan G

[brettxw]

Apparently I have no idea what I am doing. Is some one willing to help me out? I am willing to pay for their time to walk me through the steps to get this running. I have FSX on desktop with Win 7 and have Plan G on laptop with Win Vista x64. Please let me know if you can help out.

Thanks guys.

[phxflyboy]

I believe I'm in the same boat here.  I THOUGHT I knew what I was doing but am having no success.  While Plan-G is obviously not necessary, I very much like the program and would love to have it networked.

So anyone willing to help out a couple of clueless "Plan-G'ers", it would be greatly appreciated.

phxflyboy

[jschall]

@brettxw, @phxflyboy, check your PMs.

I'm not sure I'm the best person to help, because I can't connect my laptop to my FSX PC with SimConnect. But I can connect using FSUIPC4 and WideFS.

Maybe somebody else could also volunteer?

- Jeff

[rochewf]

brettxw,

Here is what I did to get Plan G working on a netbook/laptop with Windows 7 and on a desktop with Windows 7 and FSX. I used SimConnect to connect Plan-G from my netbook/laptop to FSX on my desktop.
After you have Plan-G loaded on your netbook/laptop and have built the FSX data base you will need to access FSX to do this, left click the yellow plane (top left), left click options, and left click FS Connection tab. In this window I have chosen SimConnect and SimConnect Settings, Network Mode = IPv4, FSX Computer = 192.169.0.5 and Server Port/Pipe = 4506.
You can find your FSX computer address by going to your desktop FSX computer and clicking on
Start/All Programs/Accessories/Command Prompt then type ipconfig and hit Enter. In here you should see your IPv4 Address something like 192.168.0.5. Write it down you need it in the options above and two more times in the SimConnect.xml file below.

Next on your desktop FSX computer you need to create or modify the SimConnect.xml file. The SimConnect.xml file on my desktop FSX computer was in C:/Users/Bill/AppData/Roaming/Microsoft/FSX. Right click on this file and use open with, notepad. I made the required change with notepad so it looked like this when I was done.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1252"?>
<SimBase.Document Type="SimConnect" version="1,0">
<Descr>SimConnect</Descr>
<Filename>SimConnect.xml</Filename>
<SimConnect.Comm>
<Disabled>False</Disabled>
<Protocol>Auto</Protocol>
<Scope>local</Scope>
<Address>192.168.0.5</Address>
<MaxClients>64</MaxClients>
<Port>4506</Port>
<MaxRecvSize>4096</MaxRecvSize>
<DisableNagle>False</DisableNagle>
</SimConnect.Comm>
<SimConnect.Comm>
<Disabled>False</Disabled>
<Protocol>IPv4</Protocol>
<Scope>global</Scope>
<Address>192.168.0.5</Address>
<MaxClients>64</MaxClients>
<Port>4506</Port>
<MaxRecvSize>4096</MaxRecvSize>
<DisableNagle>False</DisableNagle>
</SimConnect.Comm>
</SimBase.Document>

Save this file and close note pad. If you had FSX running you will need to restart it.
Start FSX on your desktop and Plan-G on your netbook/laptop. In Plan-G left click the Connect icon and your plane and the airport it is located at should show up with a yellow plane symbol.
Hope this helps et you going,

Bill

[phxflyboy]

At what point do you build the database on the netbook?  And how do I do this if I can't get them to connect?

Also, is that your ENTIRE xml file you posted or just what you added to what was already there?

phxflyboy

[jschall]

At what point do you build the database on the netbook?  And how do I do this if I can't get them to connect?

The very first thing to do is set up sharing on your FSX PC, so that you can open the Flight Simulator X directory, and the directory containing your scenery.cfg file, from the laptop.

Then, fill in the Locations boxes in Plan-G on the laptop. See section 6.2 in the manual for an example from Windows XP. Windows 7 is different...

At that point, if the sharing is set up correctly, you can build the database on the laptop. You may have to restart Plan-G on the laptop before it will let you click on "FSX Database".

The next step is creating simconnect.xml on the FSX PC (in the same directory as your FSX.cfg file), and the corresponding entries in the FS Connection dialogue in Plan-G.

NOW you should be able to click on the  "Connect" button.

Good luck!

- Jeff

[brettxw]

Huge thanks goes to Jeff who walked me through the steps on MSN to get Plan G up and running!! I def. would not have been able to figure it all out with out his assistance! Thanks Jeff!