Client not connecting to Simulator

[Ed62 1]

Hi,

I recently purchased FS-ATC Chatter. I've installed it on the same client that I have P2ATC installed. P2ATC connects to the simulator and works fine, although I haven't set it up to use FS-ATC Chatter yet.

The problem I have is getting the FS-ATC Player to connect to the simulator. I've changed the address in the FS-ATC Simconnect.cfg  folder to the address of the server that FS2020 resides on. I left the port at 500 for now as I know it's open through the firewall. Does this folder have to be placed elsewhere or does it stay in the main FS-ATC folder?  I've also set sharing to the FS-ATC folder. I looked at the tutorial and it gave a location to show how to set up the Simconnect.xml file, so I added the example and changed the address to that of my client and the port to 500.

I still can't get a connection to the simulator so I'm asking for a little help to solve the issue I'm having. I have lots of apps on this client connecting to the simulator so I'm quite sure it's not a network issue and pretty sure that I just need a little more clarification on how to setup simconnect correctly between client and server.

Kind Regards,

Ed B.

[rcarlson1971 2]

FS-ATC-Chatter works like any other SimConnect application, so you should be able to use the same SimConnect.cfg file as you use for the other applications that run on that same computer.

Do the other SimConnect applications each have their own SimConnect.cfg file, or do you have a common SimConnect.cfg file in your Documents folder?

[Ed62 1]

Hi,

It's been such a long time since I've done anything with simconnect files. The file I altered was the simconnect.xml in the MSFS root directory as per the instructions manual that came with FS-ATC Chatter. I didn't realize there were more files in the Documents folder. I'll have a look there and see what's in there.

 

EDIT: Pretty much all my other applications connect through WideFS. I cannot find any simconnect files in my Docyments folders.

Edited December 4, 2023 by Ed62
Added information.

[markcellis 133]

There is a SimConnect-Sample.cfg file located in the root FS-ATC-Chatter folder. Per the FS-ATC-Chatter User Guide page 9 (Connecting to the Simulator), you need to rename that file to SimConnect.cfg and change its contents to point to the system that has the sim on it.

Mark

@Ed62

[Ed62 1]

45 minutes ago, markcellis said:

There is a SimConnect-Sample.cfg file located in the root FS-ATC-Chatter folder. Per the FS-ATC-Chatter User Guide page 9 (Connecting to the Simulator), you need to rename that file to SimConnect.cfg and change its contents to point to the system that has the sim on it.

Mark

@Ed62

Hi Mark,

I tried to follow the User Guide as best I could. I will start off with the first thing I did. As per User Guide I changed the name to simconnect.cfg and pointed it towards the server hosting MSFS2020. I left the port at 500. I also left the simconnect.cfg file in the folder it was in.

The first image is the changes to the simconnect.cfg. Second image is the location where it resides. Are these two items correct?

https://imgur.com/M3tnoW2

https://imgur.com/73GeJgP

 

 

https://imgur.com/7anTRJO             I added this to simconnect.xml on server and pointed it to FS-ATC client.

https://imgur.com/tqy4ihg                 This is where my simconnect.xml file resides on MSFS server

 

I had though I had followed the User Guide correctly, but obviously I have made an error somewhere. Do all of these things look ok? I'm not sure of port 500, but I have opened it to incoming and outgoing on both client and server.

 

I hope the image locations work as I was unable to use the 'Insert image from URL' button.

 

Kind Regards,

Ed

[markcellis 133]

@Ed62 I think you mentioned that you have other products that are connecting properly to the simulator. Are they still connecting properly?

One of the concerns I have is that you have two different IP addresses in the .cfg file and the .xml file. I think they both need to be the IP address of the system that your simulator is on.

Mark

[Ed62 1]

3 hours ago, markcellis said:

There is a SimConnect-Sample.cfg file located in the root FS-ATC-Chatter folder. Per the FS-ATC-Chatter User Guide page 9 (Connecting to the Simulator), you need to rename that file to SimConnect.cfg and change its contents to point to the system that has the sim on it.

Mark

@Ed62

Hi Mark, 

Yes, all the other apps are connecting to the server, but they use FSUIPC WideFS or they have there own auto connect files. This is my first attempt at using Simconnect from the client with MSFS2020. I'll double check this though, but yesterday they all connected fine.

I've just gone through all my inbound and outbound rules on server and client and all seems fine. FS-ATC is allowed through the firewall on both server and client, although I have Firewall on both client and server turned off at the moment.

 I'll  change the address on the server to match that of the simconnect.cfg on the client, maybe that's the issue. Will get back to you on how it goes. Thanks so much for your guidance.

 

Kind Regards,

Ed

[Ed62 1]

Hi Mark,

Good news!  FS-ATC Chatter is showing connected so it was probably the different IP Addresses that were causing the problem. I'm also hearing chatter related to my tuned frequency in the sim. I consider my problem solved now. Thanks very much for your help.

Kind Regards,

Ed

PS: The chat sounds great!

[markcellis 133]

@Ed62 Glad you got it working.

 

Mark