MSFS Getting temperature at a given location

[Taz5150]

Hi,

Can any of you think on a creative way of obtaining ambient temperature readings 1 NM in front of the aircraft (or a given lat/ long)? I’m asking for creative ideas since I know we can’t call simvar AMBIENT TEMPERATURE at any location.

Ideas are appreciated!

Thanks.

 

[degorap]

Weather Forecast API | Open-Meteo.com

open-meteo.com

never used, just a search...

 

[Taz5150]

Weather Forecast API | Open-Meteo.com

open-meteo.com

never used, just a search...

Thank you. Yes, I have worked with open-meteo. But I meant using in-Sim simvars.

 

[DragonflightDesign]

Well... what we used to do for creating TFR (terrain following radar) in FSX was to add an invisible aircraft (or flight of aircraft) that flew in formation directly along the heading of the user aircraft. You should be able to do something very similar in MSFS.

 

[Taz5150]

Well... what we used to do for creating TFR (terrain following radar) in FSX was to add an invisible aircraft (or flight of aircraft) that flew in formation directly along the heading of the user aircraft. You should be able to do something very similar in MSFS.

Yes, this is what I’m looking at as we speak. There are some nice implementations of sim probes out there.

Thank you!

 

[B21-soaring]

my simconnect code from a century ago: https://github.com/ijl20/msfs_probe/blob/main/Modules/sim_probe/sim_probe.cpp

I'm wondering whether this could all be done from wasm in MSFS today.

 

[degorap]

It could, but it should be adapted in many ways, initially you can't use includes like time.h and windows.h, math.h and stdio.h are OK, rest im not sure.
In some project I have "creatively" resolved not being able to use "time.h", but access to Windows definitely cannot be solved from an WASM module, thats why most add-ons need an external simconnect app.

 

[Taz5150]

my simconnect code from a century ago: https://github.com/ijl20/msfs_probe/blob/main/Modules/sim_probe/sim_probe.cpp

I'm wondering whether this could all be done from wasm in MSFS today.

I'd say yes, at least regarding the core of the code (which is what I've been working on). I even used for testing the SimProbe.mdl and it does show in the Sim So I'd say yes, with a little work probably.

It could, but it should be adapted in many ways, initially you can't use includes like time.h and windows.h, math.h and stdio.h are OK, rest im not sure.
In some project I have "creatively" resolved not being able to use "time.h", but access to Windows definitely cannot be solved from an WASM module, thats why most add-ons need an external simconnect app.

Not sure why you say that we can't use includes such as windows.h, math.h, time.h ... I am using all of them as we speak, and I don't have an issue with it. There are certain restrictions on file reading/ writing, but other stuff can be used without any problems.

 

[degorap]

Not sure why you say that we can't use includes such as windows.h, math.h, time.h ... I am using all of them as we speak, and I don't have an issue with it. There are certain restrictions on file reading/ writing, but other stuff can be used without any problems.

you mean you use them in an in-game wasm module?

 

[Taz5150]

you mean you use them in an in-game wasm module?

Yup, as part of a gauge wasm. Including chrono, cmath, string and iostream among others.

 

[Taz5150]

you mean you use them in an in-game wasm module?

Just so everyone is aware, after a few private comments with Diego, I wanted you to know that he is completely right concerning windows.h in a WASM module; it cannot be included. It works for a SimConnect module, but not WASM.

Regarding other libraries, all I can add is that at least chrono, cmath, iostream, string and time can be included.

I apologize for the misunderstanding, and thank you Diego for your feedback!

Best!

 

[DragonflightDesign]

That's an interesting piece of code...

 

[Taz5150]

Continuing with this subject, I was able to create one test probe, send it to Oslo (in order to be very far from the user aircraft) and tried to read AMBIENT TEMPERATURE from it. So far that’s been unsuccessful. I keep getting the temperature from the user aircraft position, not the new created objectID.

Any thoughts?

 

[MaxPaperno]

... concerning windows.h in a WASM module; it cannot be included.

To be more specific here, just in case it helps anyone avoid confusion, for WASM modules one would `#include <MSFS/MSFS_WindowsTypes.h>` instead of Windows.h. This is also required before trying to include "SimConnect.h" since that uses some MSVC types (mostly DWORD) but deliberately doesn't include any headers which declare them.

HTH,
-Max

 

[Taz5150]

To be more specific here, just in case it helps anyone avoid confusion, for WASM modules one would `#include <MSFS/MSFS_WindowsTypes.h>` instead of Windows.h. This is also required before trying to include "SimConnect.h" since that uses some Windows types but deliberately doesn't include any headers which declare them.

HTH,
-Max

Thank you!

 

[Taz5150]

Continuing with this subject, I was able to create one test probe, send it to Oslo (in order to be very far from the user aircraft) and tried to read AMBIENT TEMPERATURE from it. So far that’s been unsuccessful. I keep getting the temperature from the user aircraft position, not the new created objectID.

Any thoughts?

FYI, it seems AMBIENT TEMPERATURE cannot be extracted for different Objects, only for the User.