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MSFS20 Simconnect across a network?

Tim_A

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I'm trying to connect an app to FS2020 across a LAN. I'm using FSX RTM simconnect. It connects perfectly if the app is running locally. It also connects happily to both FSX and P3D4.5 across the LAN.
I've checked the simconnect log (via simconnect.ini, on verbose settings), and there's not a peep.
I'm using the same simconnect.xml settings as for the other sims, adding the values to the file that's already created in <...>\LocalCache:

XML: 
    <SimConnect.Comm>
        <Disabled>False</Disabled>
        <Protocol>IPv4</Protocol>
        <Scope>global</Scope>
        <MaxClients>64</MaxClients>
        <Address>192.168.1.2</Address>
        <Port>4504</Port>
        <MaxRecvSize>4096</MaxRecvSize>
    </SimConnect.Comm>

The port is acknowledged in the log at startup, but that's all:

Code: 
0.00000 SimConnect version 11.0.62651.3

0.00264 Server: Scope=local, Protocol=IPv4, Address=127.0.0.1, Port=500, MaxClients=64
0.01043 Server: Scope=local, Protocol=IPv6, Address=::1, Port=501, MaxClients=64
0.04135 Server: Scope=local, Protocol=Pipe, Name=\\.\pipe\Custom\SimConnect, MaxClients=64
0.12013 Server: Scope=local, Protocol=IPv4, Address=127.0.0.1, Port=56358, MaxClients=64
0.18201 Server: Scope=local, Protocol=IPv6, Address=::1, Port=56359, MaxClients=64
0.37110 Server: Scope=local, Protocol=Pipe, Name=\\.\pipe\Microsoft Flight Simulator\SimConnect, MaxClients=64
0.57074 Server: Scope=global, Protocol=IPv4, Address=192.168.1.2, Port=4504, MaxClients=64

Has anyone got networked Simconnect to work? Am I maybe missing something obvious? (I've checked the firewall settings, and even turned it off)
 
Same issue.
The simconnect.cfg is overwritten with default local and localhost parameters, each time I call the library !
 
It is my understanding that FS2020 doesn't support SimConnect over a network... probably something about security.
 
WarpD said:
It is my understanding that FS2020 doesn't support SimConnect over a network... probably something about security.
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I'm using Plan-G across a network, via FSX & P3D Simconnects. Works fine, but I do have to turn off the firewall on the FS PC
 
Uh... your OP is asking how to get it to work over a network with FS2020... and nowhere in this thread do you state you have it working with FS2020 over a network. I do not know that their version of SimConnect will support networks because it violates the security requirements that Microsoft is wanting. If you have it working over a network with FS2020... you should at least have updated this thread to indicate you no longer needed assistance and that it was working.
 
Hello,

I have the same issue (cannot connect my add-on to MSFS 2020 SimConnect from a networked computer, but it works from the MSFS computer). If anyone has the solution or an answer it would be very kind to help.

Best regards,
Jean-philippe
 
I've had "some" success with turning the firewall off, but it's inconsistent. First 3 days it didn't want to know at all. The weekend it was fine (I did a reset on the firewall, so everything had to seek permission again). Monday I didn't try it, and today it's back to not working again. This applies to FSUIPC with WideFS as well, so it's not just legacy SimConnects. But I know it *CAN* work... When I get a chance I'm going to do a reinstall, in case something got borked during the install (it was chaos during those firs hours, after all!). But that might not be for some days.
 
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