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vranki / ExtPlane

Plugin for X-Plane flight simulator which allows reading and writing simulation properties
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Add support for Avahi/Zeroconf auto-discovery #5

Open vranki opened 11 years ago

vranki commented 11 years ago

Currently user needs to know the IP address for computer running ExtPlane. This is annoying sometimes if IP can change. Add support for Avahi (aka ZeroConf) protocol which would allow automatic discovery of the service.

Do it in platform independent way if possible.. I don't know if there is a common library to do it.

dankrusi commented 11 years ago

I added hostname support a while ago (ie flightsim1.local, MYWINDOWSPC, flightsim.domain.com), which should theoretically allow for moving IPs. This might be sufficient for most people...?

Dimsday commented 4 years ago

http://blog.shahada.abubakar.net/post/linux-udp-network-client-library-for-x-plane-10-and-11 See: BECN

vranki commented 4 years ago

Thanks, this is cool. We could actually use this UDP networking interface to do limited pluginless ExtPlane and/or use UDP for high performance per-frame updates.