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DVA12057
Captain, B737-800
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784 legs, 1,851.6 hours
567 legs, 1,208.9 hours online
776 legs, 1,814.1 hours ACARS
49 legs, 95.2 hours event
17 legs dispatched, 35.9 hours

Posted onPost created on December 13 2015 14:04 ET by Armand Delalla

I am trying to network active sky next from my laptop to my desktop, ive set up sim connect opened ports used the forums from hifi for help and i cant seem to get active sky next to connect, i keep getting waiting for simulator. can some one help me please

Armand Delalla (DVA12057)

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104 legs, 160.6 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on December 13 2015 20:19 ET by Dwight Heyer

Hi Armand, I had a tough time getting Active Sky 2012 networked. I imagine ASN would be similar. This video helped me a lot. Are you running W7?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOkJ0U9eHIY

Dwight Heyer

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267 legs, 584.6 hours online
292 legs, 681.8 hours ACARS
36 legs, 78.6 hours event

Posted onPost created on December 13 2015 21:27 ET by Tom Stallings

Armand,

I have done this a few time, I would do this to test. 1, cut off your firewall on both machines to test. If it then works, then something with a port. Second, I would map a network drive on your laptop to the file location of your simulator. Try creating and deleting any file to make sure read and write works. When you open up ASN, make sure you put the correct paths into the settings. (this is where a network drive to users and FSX/P3S main folder is easier.) You would select X:/users/.....etc

Tom Stallings

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623 legs, 2,427.1 hours
483 legs, 1,679.9 hours online
619 legs, 2,380.7 hours ACARS
5 legs, 12.7 hours event

Posted onPost created on December 14 2015 10:18 ET by Kris Greenough

Ugh. More simconnect issues. It's a protocol that needs to die. I gave up on this long ago. There are so many different versions of simconnect that certain software require. Anytime I run into this issue I all but cry because it's almost certainly doomed to fail. Many developers are moving away from sim-connect due to lag issues too. AvilaSoft EFB for instance in their next version will talk to the sim with FSUIPC. I've also found that simconnect is too slow to talk to the sim over wifi. I have a decent home network and I had to hardwire my flight sim computers together because I was getting simconnect lag all over the place, especially with the EFB. ASN does not really do anything special out of the flight deck really. Sure it gives you a half heated radar, but honestly just enter the flight plan in it and that's about it. Leave it local and count your blessings it works.

Kris Greenough

Senior Captain, B777-200

Posted onPost created on December 14 2015 10:19 ET by Armand Delalla

i am using windows 10 and i will try your method tom with the fire wall later, I know that my network mapping works because i have sent fiels between the two machines, and thanks for the video dwight i will also check that out

Armand Delalla (DVA12057)

Posted onPost created on December 14 2015 19:54 ET by Tom Stallings

Let us know!

Tom Stallings

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240 legs, 553.9 hours online
1,965 legs, 8,085.7 hours ACARS
75 legs, 196.3 hours event
2,343 legs, 9,427.5 hours total
91 legs dispatched, 66.4 hours

Posted onPost created on December 14 2015 20:09 ET by Luke Kolin

Kris Greenough wrote:

There are so many different versions of simconnect that certain software require.

You should blame that on the software authors, not Simconnect. Good software should not depend on a specific version, but a minimum version and above. If it doesn't, it's broken and you should demand either a refund or complain vigorously in public and demand better.

Many developers are moving away from sim-connect due to lag issues too. AvilaSoft EFB for instance in their next version will talk to the sim with FSUIPC.

You realize that FSUIPC talks to FSX and P3D via SimConnect, right? If one complains about lag via SimConnect, I'm not sure how providing an extra abstraction and translation layer is going to improve lag. It won't.

The reason why people go to FSUIPC is the same reason I haven't moved to a native SimConnect interface - it's a nice clean abstraction layer that supports multiple versions of the sim in the same way, and has great language support in languages other than C. SimConnect is great, until you start switching outside of C++ and then it's a living hell. But that doesn't mean it's a bad interface; it's actually pretty good. It may be a little over-complicated, but it's an event-driven interface into the sim that works consistently across remote or local implementations. The language and library support is atrocious.

(It's worth pointing out that Pete Dowson has been able to get a single version of FSUIPC to talk to pretty much every SimConnect version in existence. If he can, in a free version of his software, other software publishers can too.)

I've also found that simconnect is too slow to talk to the sim over wifi.

That may say more about your wifi than SimConnect. wink

Again, don't get me wrong. It's half-baked and needed work. But many of the problems relate to poor language support and asking people who don't know much about networking to setup TCP/IP connections between machines.

Cheers!

Luke Kolin

Senior Captain, MD-11

Posted onPost created on December 18 2015 13:52 ET by Armand Delalla

i finally got it to work, I found a program called sim connect config tool and used that once i put the right info into the program everything magically worked smile

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