Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fwd: Generic Protocol Error --> Error opening serial device "COM27" The system cannot find the file specified.

2011-08-16 Thread Derrick Washington
OK I believe I've found the answer, its the baud rate, FG can't handle 115200, I changed the baud rate to 9600 and now it appears that the values I'm getting back for the altitude are correct. I'm going to run a more extensive test on all of the other outputs I need and see what happens. On Tu

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fwd: Generic Protocol Error --> Error opening serial device "COM27" The system cannot find the file specified.

2011-08-16 Thread Derrick Washington
OK so this is my latest test. I took the word from the UART assuming that they were integers, I took the 32bit word converted it to a string and printed that string out to a terminal. Now in my generic protocol file I am only outputting one variable now and thats the altitude. The list of numb

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASIM Comment (was New aircraft: SF-25)

2011-08-16 Thread Viktor Radnai
Hi Adrian, On 08/16/2011 12:46 PM, Adrian Musceac wrote: > Viktor, > During the long hours which have been spent by Emilian and I tweaking the > IAR80 FDM, I have found out that three tag parameters have a very heavy > influence on the solver: [approach aoa="" glide-angle=""] and [cruise glide- >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New aircraft: SF-25

2011-08-16 Thread Viktor Radnai
Hi all, I have updated the model. Please download and test again if you are interested. http://www.avatarzenekar.hu/files/sf25b.tar.bz2 Many thanks to all especially Gary aka Buckaroo for his yasim xml and explanations. List of changes: - CG supposedly closer to real CG. - More realistic sink

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fwd: Generic Protocol Error --> Error opening serial device "COM27" The system cannot find the file specified.

2011-08-16 Thread Derrick Washington
A little background would probably help here. The hardware I am using is my hardware, I designed it from start to finish, so I'm pretty sure it supports what I'm doing. Basically its like you said I just stored the float variable at the address of the UART register, and yes when its gets read its

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fwd: Generic Protocol Error --> Error opening serial device "COM27" The system cannot find the file specified.

2011-08-16 Thread Anders Gidenstam
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011, Derrick Washington wrote: > Anders > > I have included the following line in my generic xml file > > > true > network > > My C++ code looks like this now. > > float gps_vdummy, gps_xdummy, gps_ydummy, gps_zdummy; > > if ( (quik_silva_status_reg & 0x1000) != 0

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fwd: Generic Protocol Error --> Error opening serial device "COM27" The system cannot find the file specified.

2011-08-16 Thread Derrick Washington
OK So now what I am doing is taking input altitude value (gps_zdummy) converting it to a integer and sending it to a seven segment display I have on my board and the values are all over the place sometimes , but most of the time just skipping around to wild numbers. This tells me that what

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fwd: Generic Protocol Error --> Error opening serial device "COM27" The system cannot find the file specified.

2011-08-16 Thread Derrick Washington
Here is my command line set up. D:\Program Files\FlightGear\bin\Win32\fgfs.exe --fg-root=D:\Program Files\FlightGear\data --fg-scenery=D:\Program Files\FlightGear\data\Scenery;D:\Program Files\FlightGear\scenery;D:\Program Files\FlightGear\terrasync --airport=CA70 --aircraft=f-14b --cont

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] D-EEQA, the FlightGear C172

2011-08-16 Thread James J. Brennan
>transportation from the tiny airfield of Wahlstedt (EDHW) to my home. That looks like it was fun, but will it fit in the basement ! jj http://kingmont.com -- Get a FREE DOWNLOAD! and learn more about uberSVN rich sys

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fwd: Generic Protocol Error --> Error opening serial device "COM27" The system cannot find the file specified.

2011-08-16 Thread Derrick Washington
Anders I have included the following line in my generic xml file true network My C++ code looks like this now. float gps_vdummy, gps_xdummy, gps_ydummy, gps_zdummy; if ( (quik_silva_status_reg & 0x1000) != 0 ) { //CHECK TO SEE IF SIMULATOR DATA IS AVAIABLE gps_vdummy

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] D-EEQA, the FlightGear C172

2011-08-16 Thread Gene Buckle
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011, Torsten Dreyer wrote: > Hi, > just for the fun of it - here are 55 pictures of the Cessna's > transportation from the tiny airfield of Wahlstedt (EDHW) to my home. > > http://www.c172fg.de/ > That's just awesome. Thanks for the pics! :) g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 h

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fwd: Generic Protocol Error --> Error opening serial device "COM27" The system cannot find the file specified.

2011-08-16 Thread Anders Gidenstam
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011, Derrick Washington wrote: > OK so I have to specify wether or not FG should be using host or network > byte order. OK, I don't have the source code I just downloaded the > executable, so I'll have to figure out some way of checking it. OK then > once I specify this I have to

[Flightgear-devel] [OT] D-EEQA, the FlightGear C172

2011-08-16 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Hi, just for the fun of it - here are 55 pictures of the Cessna's transportation from the tiny airfield of Wahlstedt (EDHW) to my home. http://www.c172fg.de/ Hope you like it, Torsten -- uberSVN's rich system and user a

[Flightgear-devel] Two strange issues

2011-08-16 Thread thorsten . i . renk
Two things which might be worth mentioning (both with recent GIT, pulled and compiled ~ a week ago) 1) One of my rendering performance benchmark tests is to use the ufo transport it, using the location dialog, exactly 30.000 ft over the starting position (then increase FOV to 120 deg and create w

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fwd: Generic Protocol Error --> Error opening serial device "COM27" The system cannot find the file specified.

2011-08-16 Thread Derrick Washington
OK so I have to specify wether or not FG should be using host or network byte order. OK, I don't have the source code I just downloaded the executable, so I'll have to figure out some way of checking it. OK then once I specify this I have to somehow check to see exactly what that order box is usi

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fwd: Generic Protocol Error --> Error opening serial device "COM27" The system cannot find the file specified.

2011-08-16 Thread Anders Gidenstam
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011, Derrick Washington wrote: > "Btw. if your generic protocol is set to use network byte order > (endianness MSB) you have to take that into account when unpacking the > float value." > > Huh? Are you saying that if I am using --generic=socket that FG sendings > out the data MSB

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fwd: Generic Protocol Error --> Error opening serial device "COM27" The system cannot find the file specified.

2011-08-16 Thread Derrick Washington
Hi Curt I tried the two different port thing and the single port option, I don't think FG will receive data from a socket if it is not the server, it seems it has to open up the connection and port when receiving data. On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Curtis Olson wrote: > Also with sending/

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fwd: Generic Protocol Error --> Error opening serial device "COM27" The system cannot find the file specified.

2011-08-16 Thread Derrick Washington
"Btw. if your generic protocol is set to use network byte order (endianness MSB) you have to take that into account when unpacking the float value." Huh? Are you saying that if I am using --generic=socket that FG sendings out the data MSB first? Is there a discription on this anywhere so I can

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New aircraft: SF-25

2011-08-16 Thread Viktor Radnai
Haha, that was me taxiing her out for takeoff for the first time! Part of the normal taxiway was cordoned off for some kind of car tuning show (you can see that on the left) and we had to go through slightly longer grass, with some weeds sticking out. That's the great thing about a grass airfie

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fwd: Generic Protocol Error --> Error opening serial device "COM27" The system cannot find the file specified.

2011-08-16 Thread Curtis Olson
Also with sending/receiving UDP packets, you need to use different ports for the sending and receiving channels. On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 2:28 AM, Anders Gidenstam wrote: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2011, Derrick Washington wrote: > > > One last thing is there a way to ensure that FG is sending out its > out

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New aircraft: SF-25

2011-08-16 Thread Gene Buckle
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011, Viktor Radnai wrote: > http://www.avatarzenekar.hu/files/P1020617.JPG > http://www.avatarzenekar.hu/files/P1020618.JPG > Am I the only one that noticed that someone has been mowing a lawn with that prop? :) g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The onl

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASIM Comment (was New aircraft: SF-25)

2011-08-16 Thread Adrian Musceac
On Tuesday, August 16, 2011 06:23:06 Ron Jensen wrote: > I took a look at the YASim solver today, first comparing the Inertial > tensor with the inertias coming out of aeromatic. Not too far apart, but > the 2 yasim aircraft I looked at were both 50% higher than the aeromatic > numbers. > > Then I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New aircraft: SF-25

2011-08-16 Thread Viktor Radnai
Hi guys, Thanks for this. Gary, I gave your yasim xml a spin. (sorry, long mail ahead) I don't have enough experience with the plane yet to comment on everything. The real thing seems to behave a bit better on takeoff when there is no crosswind -- haven't done a crosswind takeoff or landing ye

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fwd: Generic Protocol Error --> Error opening serial device "COM27" The system cannot find the file specified.

2011-08-16 Thread Anders Gidenstam
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011, Derrick Washington wrote: > One last thing is there a way to ensure that FG is sending out its outputs > in floating point format, because I'm not sure it is, I have the generic > file setup for binary mode, but I'm not convinced that FG is transmitting > data as floats, I thi

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Default 3d clouds in Local Weather

2011-08-16 Thread thorsten . i . renk
... and yet another issue: On a first long-range test yesterday, I observed that the cloud base of my convective layer was continuously rising. At takeoff the clouds were exactly as specified, later still plausible given terrain, but by the time the cloudbase had reached my curise altitude of 20.0