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 <anders-...@gidenstam.org>wrote: > 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 think it might actually be transmitting data as > integers > > or something else. I make this observation because the data I did get > cause > > an action in my algorithm which didn't make sense. The auto pilot > switched > > to flight mode while still on the ground, it wasn't susposed to do that > > until it reached 1800 feet, so thats why I'am assuming that the output it > > received from FG as the altitude couldn't have been in floating point > format > > it must have been an integer or maybe a double, or something but whatever > it > > was it wasn't a float. > > The good way to verify if the transmission of float values work is to > print the value in your receiver and compare that to the value of the > property you transmit in FG. > 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. > > > I looked at the perferences file in the FG directory, and I changed all > the > > double types to float, should that do it? I loaded it under the > > configuration option in the advanced options menu, but when I started FG > > back up and hit the "/" key and looked at the outputs the values still > said > > double. > > No, don't do that. It should have no influence on this issue. The sender > code converts the property value to float before encoding it. > > Cheers, > > Anders > -- > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Anders Gidenstam > WWW: http://www.gidenstam.org/FlightGear/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > uberSVN's rich system and user administration capabilities and model > configuration take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and > the tools developers use with it. Learn more about uberSVN and get a free > download at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel > -- Curtis Olson: http://www.atiak.com - http://aem.umn.edu/~uav/ http://www.flightgear.org - http://gallinazo.flightgear.org
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