Weather and Terrain Radar in AM

[Sling]

Hello Derk

we can't do this,
it's only on AM/AP side with additional piece of code, not already there, to relay supplemental data extract from XP

Regards
Gilles

In theory it would be possible to implement this with an Ethernet shield connected to an Arduino running message port.

Tony

[jedeen]

Hey Keith,

Do they allow for winds aloft, echo tops, lightning alert etc?

Read this doc:

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YourHD:\X-Plane 11\Instructions\X-Plane SPECS from Austin\Weather in X-Plane.rtf

Gilles:

it's only on AM/AP side with additional piece of code, not already there

You are right only with additional code it will be possible. But in that way, as Ralph already stated, AM stays independent
And I agree with that statement of Ralph.

Further more, there is already something like "ext_variable_subscribe" in the pro version of AM, maybe that can be expanded?
Right now I am trying to get my VisulStudio up and running again, just to explore the possibility of making a plugin to communicate with AM.
Also there is a possibility to write data to a .txt file and AM can already read those files, so let's explore that also.
After all I don't understand the send data quite now and one has to begin somewhere.
I know for sure that Corjan is reading this post to.

And further more I still have a lot of work to do with the ND....this is just a side step for me now
But eventually, that weather and terrain radar has to be a part of the ND.

Have fun
Derk

[Ralph]

For us I think it's something for a >3.6 version. We first want to have navigation implemented and would like to have a vector graphics map. Then after that all has been decently implemented, we can look at these features.

Maybe there's a quick win with the UDP stream implementation, but that's up to Corjan.

[jedeen]

Maybe there's a quick win with the UDP stream implementation, but that's up to Corjan.

Yep
And learn to understand such a stream:

68 65 84 65 60 18 0 0 0 171 103 81 191 187 243 46 190 103 246 45 67 156 246 26 67 47 231 26 67 0 192 121 196 0 192 121 196 85 254 151 193

The first four are just ASCI........but never mind........that's for later.
Thanks Ralph,
Have fun
Derk

[brodhaq]

Hello,
I have noticed today, that in SASL there is a LUA function "probeTerrain(x, y, z)" (with local opengl coordinates as arguments) which seems to return PROBE_HIT_TERRAIN – terrain found at specified location and more information available as
additional return value: locationX, locationY, locationZ, normalX, normalY, normalZ, velocityX, velocityY, vlocityZ, isWet. Location is localtion of terrain point hit in local coordinates, normal is normal vector of terrain found, velocity is velocity vector of terrain found, isWet equals to true if sea found. More at: https://1-sim.com/files/SASL3Manual.pdf It is probably a direct SDK implementation into the easier interface of SASL.

Would somebody be so skilled to create a small SASL script which would scan the terrain around the aircraft (some grid up to few miles away) and save the measured terrain elevations into an array dataref? We could then easily subscribe to that dataref with AM and plot the terrain into our instruments. It should be quite straightforward, but I am absolutely not experienced at SASL (however it is still LUA, it is much harder than AM).

Pavel

[brodhaq]

Nobody?

[Ralph]

Did you try the x-plane.org forums with this question? Probably more chance to find someone there.

[Keith Baxter]

I am going to dump this here for thought.


https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/radar-data
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/r ... play-tools
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/satellite-data

Keith

[Keith Baxter]

This one is the most interesting.

https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/wct/formats.php

Keith