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ollyau / EFBConnect

A utility that shares Microsoft Flight Simulator position, attitude, and traffic information with ForeFlight.
MIT License
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Update ForeFlightUdp.cs #6

Closed 22AVX22 closed 1 year ago

22AVX22 commented 1 year ago

Good day, I have absolutely no knowledge of programming. How would you be able to change the port. I would like to use it on a different application called Helios Horizon that uses Xplane format for UDP but send data from MSFS 2020 instead.

I have downloaded the .exe for EFBConnect, however there in no way to change the UDP port.

ollyau commented 1 year ago

I took a brief look at the documentation for Helios Horizon and it looks like their software expects UDP data from flight simulators in a particular format (either X-Plane's data output or FlightGear's binary communication protocol). Simply changing the port number won't be sufficient, as Helios Horizon won't understand the messages that EFB Connect sends.

However, I did notice that Helios Horizon supports the GDL90 protocol (generally used by real-world avionics). You may want to try this project instead: https://github.com/jeffdamp-wave/fs2ff. I haven't tried it (and I'm unaffiliated with its author), but it sounds like it's supposed to support sending MSFS data to EFBs using GDL90.