By appliko - 10/8/2012 5:51:39 PM
Hi,
I like Skydemon. It is really a wonderful product !
I'm only missing a little thing: I like to simulate flights before to flight it, and I don't think it is strange.
I think that it should be very nice to implement a feature where you can get position/heading/time/speed/altitude input from X-Plane 10 via UDP instead of local sensors.
You could easily implement their protocol, or write something to be used via a plugin.
This will allows to flight virtually, using the Skydemon as in the real flight !
Thanks
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By appliko - 10/19/2012 8:53:09 AM
UPDATE:
I received the cable to connect serial gps to the iPad. (http://gpssimcable.com/)
It works, but it is tricky on Mac, because it looks like there is no nmea serial output on XPlane 10.
(May be something about serial ports naming on Mac, but I'm investigating on it)
It needs to
- configure XPlane to send navigation data to localhost, using udp (http://www.hanisch.com/cms/index.php/home_en/nmea_en/)
- use an utility to copy udp received data to the serial interface (http://www.hanisch.com/cms/index.php/home_en/nmea_en/)
- use the gpssimcable
then, it works.
Of course, it should be so easier if/when Skydemon will support directly something received by tcp or udp
I don't like the cable, because
- I cannot charge the iPad at the same time.
- It is a stupid purchase, having wifi
Again: it is easy to implement this feature. I hope it will be done.
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