Atlas-like application on Android

[Michat]

Notice that for the suggested map by @wlbragg user have to add --httpd=8080

[wlbragg]

Notice that for the suggested map by @wlbragg user have to add --httpd=8080

In fact you can use any open port you like, but they have to match in the browser and the port you add to the options. Note I used 5500 in both.

I got in the habit of avoiding 8080 as some ISP block that port for some types of IO and it is also a popular port for other application. However using localhost that shouldn't matter.

[wkitty42]

wlbragg has it right... any port as long as both FG and the browser know about it and it isn't already in use for something else... i've been using 5500 because that's what FGRun used and i learned FG command options from FGRun... i've not seen any need to change it and, in fact, have added more for other services (eg: ATC)...

[rooman]

FlightGearMap

The beauty of this idea is the instruments/map/etc available on a seperate Android device thus freeing up the main screen and giving more of a real simulation experiance.

Trying to put the map in a browser window slows down FG by half a dozen fps and just gives the error Localhost does not authorize this connexion...

[Hooray]

http://wiki.flightgear.org/FlightGearMap

[wkitty42]

and just gives the error Localhost does not authorize this connexion...

what is your FG command line that sets up the internal web server?
what is the URL you are putting in your browser's address bar?
what is your localhost address? generally it is 127.0.0.1 but some systems set it up differently...

[rooman]

I've just realised that I forgot to insert --httpd=8080 in settings! Of course it works fine now tks.

But FlightgearMap can put the instruments on any android device increasing realism and I still have recurrent connection timeouts!
any idea how to debug this prob?
I can ping the phones/tablet from the pc with no loss,
FG settings have the right lines inserted,
andtlas.xml is copied over,
udp and tcp ports are open in firewall,

It did actually work really well before, I've no idea what happened.

[Hooray]

I don't even know what kind of protocols/connectivity it is using - so it's hard to troubleshoot this, unless someone steps in who's more familiar with the tools involved here.

[rooman]

last system updates wiped out the andatlas.xml file which must be in the FG_ROOT folder!

[wlbragg]

But FlightgearMap can put the instruments on any android device increasing realism and I still have recurrent connection timeouts!

Do you mean it works sometimes and then other times it times out? Or it times out and never works?

Not trying to turn you off of FGMap, but the built in one works on any Android tablet that runs a web browser.

Edit:
To be sure, I tested FGMap and used the following settings

--generic=socket,out,10,192.168.0.8,5501,udp,andatlas
--telnet=socket,in,20,,9000,tcp

included andatlas.xml in the fgdata/Protocol folder and it worked fine on my Android device.