Connecting Stratux to Foreflight as an X-Plane source about stratux HOT 11 CLOSED

And this is why I was so hesitant to include X-Plane 11 output in the first place. See the readme of this repository:

X-Plane 11 compatible output for EFBs that support simulator input (experimental, unsupported. Might make it possible to connect Garmin Pilot). Based on original work by 0x74-0x62.

I do not want to support this feature. Use it if it works for you, if it doesn't feel free to provide code to make it work, because I will not.

Anyway, I will leave this open to see if anybody will step in.

One note though: The current implementation provides the data on UDP port 49002. It works fine with Garmin Pilot and SkyDemon (even though SD doesn't support simulated traffic, only ownship position).
So in theory, this should work without issues, except if Foreflight is doing something weird that I don't know of (and won't be able to find out because I don't even have it).

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Thanks for your reply and for leaving it open so others could pitch in with ideas/suggestions.

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it also does not work for me out of box on andorid garmin pilot latest it sees it and connects but no traffic /gps just ahrs

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I just made a commit bringing the X-Plane output a bit more in line with the real simulator. At least SkyDemon seems to like this a bit more (bug in SkyDemons implementation IMO). Maybe so does GP or FF? I don't know, I don't have it. If you know how to compile yourself, feel free to try with the latest git version.

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ok compiled and gave it ago its the same issue.. No trafffic.... gps not available under connexant but do get green AHRS with simulator as source... no worries tho. uh i know this is something u dont wanna debug imma try viruspilots build real quick to see any luck there

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Just did another update.. I'm fairly conviced that this should now run in Foreflight at least - I used their spec:
https://www.foreflight.com/support/network-gps/
note that this IS different from what X-Plane actually does, but I tested it in SkyDemon, Sky-Map and Enroute, and all seemed to work fine with that (Traffic, AHRS and GPS).

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Just found this, it says it works with GP. If you want, feel free to try to replicate this in xplane.go: https://github.com/astenlund/fs2ff/blob/master/DataSender.cs

It does look at least similar to the previous version, with the longer XATT message.

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• The other apps seem to be a lot more tolerant
• the other apps don't rely on this hack, they support GDL90 and/or NMEA

If you manage to find something that works with GP, I am happy to give it a try with the others. It might just work.

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Alright, so I borrowed another Android device and installed a GP trial version.
Observations:

• GPS from Stratux works fine in current master. It's updating on the map and shows green in the Connext menu
• AHRS (SynVis) did not work, I fixed it and pushed. It's now back to how it was before, with many fields set to 0. No turn or slip indicator.
• Traffic does not work.

So I installed X-Plane to see if it works with that, and no. Garmin Pilot just doesn't seem to support traffic from simulator at all. Not much to do there.

Would be happy if a foreflight user could do some testing with current master. If I don't hear anything, I will assume this is solved and close the issue.

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