Re: [Paparazzi-devel] Paparazzi & X-Plane

[Todd Sandercock]

Well Paparazzi talks over the ivy bus which is really a great thing when you want to interface into paparazzi especially because it works multi-platform. The best way start out learning what paparazzi sends around the place is by playing with the ivy examples from http://www2.tls.cena.fr/products/ivy/ . for simplicity just start out on the same computer as paparazzi is running and learn what is being sent around.

You will want to integrate ivy into your X-Plane module which is where that ivy-c example comes in. Hacking the example should make it a lot easier to get things working faster. I couldn't get the example running in studio express but i am very much just a hacking kind of coder so i don't really know what's going on. Maybe you can get it to work.

Once you work this out then i would be a fairly simple task maybe making a module for paparazzi which receives the data from x-plane and sends back control inputs. You wont have to change much on the paparazzi side of things. You 'should' be able to get the module to do everything you want without changing any of the paparazzi code at all. Would just be including the right bits in the aircraft make section.

If you get ivy running in a X-Plane plugin i would love to check out the code :)

Todd

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From: "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
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Sent: Fri, 9 April, 2010 6:22:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Paparazzi-devel] Paparazzi & X-Plane

Hi Todd,

about a year ago I connected X-Plane to Matlab/Simulink. Back then I also
used the plugin approach (since the UDP stuff changes quite often, as you
also said). I started working with VS Express too. After a while I
switched to real VS. Though I think it was also working with VS Express.

So my problem is that I don't know where to start getting data in and out
of Paparazzi. What exactly is the ivy-c example?
I don't really know what makefiles, source code, etc. I have to change.

Werner



> Hi Werner
>
> I did some research into this a couple months ago and concluded that the
> UDP streams from X-Plane aren't really used anymore because the spec's
> change so often. The easiest way to Integrate with x-plane is a plugin. If
> you have visual studio available it should be a fairly simple exercise to
> integrate an ivy to xplane parser and have it running much more smothly
> than the hassles of UDP. I started some work on this with visual studio
> express but that was missing some stuff required to compile the ivy-c
> example so I gave up. Others on this list tried with a real version of VS
> and had no issues at all.
>
> Todd
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
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> Sent: Thu, 8 April, 2010 3:55:03 PM
> Subject: [Paparazzi-devel] Paparazzi & X-Plane
>
> Hi,
>
> we are a group of students from Munich, Germany. Currently we are flying a
> Twinstar equipped with Paparazzi.
>
> My question is, has anybody already done some work on connecting Paprazzi
> to X-Plane via UDP? Basically I would like to control an aircraft in
> X-Plane with Paparazzi to do some tuning, gain adjustment, etc.
> My problem is how to get in and out of Paparazzi (data input and output
> to/from X-Plane is no problem).
>
> Any code or hint how to get started would be appreciated. :)
>
> Regards,
> Werner
>
>
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