winwing_mcdu

Use winwing mcdu on Linuc and Mac for X-Plane Toliss Airbus.

Status

The scripts fetsches all necessery data from mcdu and displays a mcdu unit in the console and prints all text on winwing mcdu. From V1.4 on, the scripts polls for new versions from github and displays it after startup if a new version is available.

For Discussions use https://forums.x-plane.org/forums/topic/324814-winwing-mcdu-on-x-plane-for-mac-studio-and-linux/

Installation

Debian based system

1. clone the repo where you want
2. copy udev/71-winwing.rules to /etc/udev/rules.d
sudo cp udev/71-winwing.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/
3. install dependencies (on debian based systems)
   sudo aptitide install python3-hid libhidapi-hidraw0
4. start script (with udev rule no sudo needed): python3 ./winwing_mcdu.py when X-Plane with Toliss aircraft is loaded.

MAC-OS

1. clone the repo where you want
2. change into the directory cd winwing_mcdu
3. install homebrew
4. install dependencies python3 -m pip install hid python3 -m pip install requests
5. brew install hidapi
6. let hid find hidapi: ln -s /opt/homebrew/lib/libhidapi.dylib .
7. start script with sudo: sudo python3 ./winwing_mcdu.py when X-Plane with Toliss aircraft is loaded.

Use MCDU

1. start X-Plane
2. enable incoming traffic in settings / network (at the very bottom of the page)
3. load Toliss A319
4. start script as written above
5. enjoy flying (and report bugs :-) )

developer documentation

See documention for developers. TODO

Notes

Use at your own risk. Updates to the MCDU can make the script incompatible. TODO: The data sent in the USB protocol by SimApp Pro has not yet been fully implemented, only to the extent that it currently works.

Next steps

• TODO

Contact

memo_5_@gmx.at (without the two underscores!) or as pm in https://forums.x-plane.org, user memo5.

Sponsoring

To sponsor you can http://buymeacoffee.com/schenlap