I have tried to get Simconnect to work with P3D but failed. I have followed the instructions given here and in ASN manual. Only thing which seems to work is that Simconnect window opens up in server computer when P3D is launched. If I launch Traffic.exe in client computer it also opens up but will disappear soon. I have also done the following troubleshooting:

• checked that the client computer has read/write access to required folders of the server computer
• turned off firewalls of the client and server computers
• checked that simconnect.ini, xml and cfg files are in correct folders (However, I’m not 100% sure that I have made correct modifications to them…)

Before I go further in troubleshooting I would like check is Simconnect compatible with Windows 10? I’m using my W7 computer as a server and W10 laptop as a client. I have installed all simconnect.msi files shared with P3D to W10 client laptop and at least installation went OK.

 

Thanks for help in advance!

I have installed and use several Simconnect versions with Prepar3d3 running between two Win 10 machines. No issues.

 

Kind regards, Michael

It is important to have the simconnect.xml correct as this will kill anything, for that get this program..SimConnect_Config_Tool_1.0_Beta_1..

 

Jorge

OK, it wouldn’t be a surprise to find out mistakes from the files as I don’t really understand the function of every row… Great if somebody could check these files!

 

simconnect.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1252"?>

 

<SimBase.Document Type="SimConnect" version="1,0">

  <Descr>SimConnect Server Configuration</Descr>

  <Filename>SimConnect.xml</Filename>

  <Disabled>False</Disabled>

 

  <!-- Example Global (remote) Pipe Server Configuration-->

  <SimConnect.Comm>

    <Disabled>False</Disabled>

    <Protocol>Pipe</Protocol>

    <Scope>global</Scope>

    <MaxClients>64</MaxClients>

    <Port>REPLACE_WITH_PORT_NAME</Port>

  </SimConnect.Comm>

 

  <!-- Example Global (remote) IPv6 Server Configuration-->

  <SimConnect.Comm>

    <Disabled>False</Disabled>

    <Protocol>IPv6</Protocol>

    <Scope>global</Scope>

    <MaxClients>64</MaxClients>

    <Address>::</Address>

    <Port>REPLACE_WITH_PORT_NUMBER</Port>

  </SimConnect.Comm>

 

  <!-- Example Global (remote) IPv4 Server Configuration-->

  <SimConnect.Comm>

    <Disabled>False</Disabled>

    <Protocol>IPv4</Protocol>

    <Scope>global</Scope>

    <MaxClients>64</MaxClients>

    <Address>192.168.0.10</Address>

    <Port>9017</Port>

  </SimConnect.Comm>

 

  <!-- Example Local Pipe Server Configuration-->

  <SimConnect.Comm>

    <Disabled>False</Disabled>

    <Protocol>Pipe</Protocol>

    <Scope>local</Scope>

    <MaxClients>64</MaxClients>

    <Port>REPLACE_WITH_PORT_NAME</Port>

  </SimConnect.Comm>

 

  <!-- Example Local IPv6 Server Configuration-->

  <SimConnect.Comm>

    <Disabled>False</Disabled>

    <Protocol>IPv6</Protocol>

    <Scope>local</Scope>

    <MaxClients>64</MaxClients>

    <Address>::1</Address>

    <Port>REPLACE_WITH_PORT_NUMBER</Port>

  </SimConnect.Comm>

 

  <!-- Example Local IPv4 Server Configuration-->

  <SimConnect.Comm>

    <Disabled>False</Disabled>

    <Protocol>IPv4</Protocol>

    <Scope>local</Scope>

    <MaxClients>64</MaxClients>

    <Address>127.0.0.1</Address>

    <Port>9017</Port>

  </SimConnect.Comm>

 

</SimBase.Document>

 

simconnect.cfg

; Example SimConnect client configurations

 

[simConnect]

Protocol=Auto

Address=

Port=

MaxReceiveSize=

DisableNagle=

 

[simConnect.1]

Protocol=Pipe

Address=.

 

[simConnect.2]

Protocol=Ipv6

Address=::1

 

[simConnect.3]

Protocol=Ipv4

Address=127.0.0.1

Port=9017

 

[simConnect.4]

Protocol=Pipe

Address=<remote computer address or name here>

Port=<remote computer pipe name (matches Port name given in SimConnect.xml)>

 

[simConnect.5]

Protocol=IPv6

Address=<remote computer address or name here>

Port=<remote computer port number here>

 

[simConnect.6]

Protocol=IPv4

Address=192.168.0.10

Port=9017

 

simconnect.ini

[simConnect]

level=verbose

console=1

;RedirectStdOutToConsole=1

;OutputDebugString=1

;file=c:\simconnect%03u.log

;file_next_index=0

;file_max_index=9

Just to add some more information for checking…

 

This is what I got by using Simconnect config tool:

 

 

 

And here is a list of simconnect.msi files installed to the client computer:

 

The instructions for simconnect  setup provided by ProATC is very good. And same port setting work for ProATC and ASN.

 

I say ProATC Simconnect network instructions good also cause it includes xml code you just copy paste change to your ip address done.

 

Also I installed all the versions of simconnect  found in p3d {redist } folder on both server and client side. Just copied redist to laptop, installed all simconnect version.

 

And that's it.

Helps a lot to use instructions with code to copy paste rather than horsing around with the code sample from p3d sdk as a starting point , cause that sample is very long and intimidating for new  xml user.

Thank you very much! The problem was with file codes. I have tried many of them; this one finally worked!

So can you tell me what the file code was that you changed. I've been having the same problem and I'm pretty sure that everything should be correct

 

Thanks