Pulling data out of MSFS

[MSFS 2020] Questions & Community Discussions
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I want to pull out real-time data for pitch, roll, and yaw as I fly. Eventually, i want to put that data into simConnect and do something with it. What do I have to do?

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The simconnect sample called RequestData is probably one of the best place to start learning about this.

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Cool. Nothing is easy to find in MSFS.

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Sorry, but I have MSFS SDK and SimConnect SDK in my directories for c:. Where exactly do I find DevMode and RequestData samples? Is there another download?

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MSFS SDK\Samples\VisualStudio\SimConnectSamples\RequestData

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In my MSFS SDK folder, I only have Licenses, Schemas, SimConnect, Tools, and WASM. No samples in any of the sub- or sub-folders. What am I missing?

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I don’t have Visual Studio on my flight system. Do I need that?

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SDK samples is a separate download.
To play around with the simconnect samples you will need visual studio.

Based on your initial post I assumed you wanted to create an application to pull data out, since you wanted to later do something with it in simconnect. If you just want to look at the data there are apps that can do that, like axis and ohs, spad next, mobiflight, the included simvarwatcher in the SDK.

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Thanks. No, I want to pull out data to do something with. I’ll have to get VS on the flight computer for C++. I think I’ll need Python as well. MS has always been a bit obtuse, in my opinion. Hard to follow.

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You only need the application you will create on the “flight” computer.

Visual studio or any other compiler of your choice are not needed

As a side note, calling obtuse a software that provides exactly what you need with several samples and documentation isn’t really fair
(And about Simconnect, hard to follow…the way it interacts with the game had very limited changes during the last 15 years)

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We wrote a python program to create a bridge on flight computer with the Python onboard to use the simconnect api.

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You don’t have the 30 years of history with MS that I do.

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You are right sir, only 25 :nerd_face:

You are so expert that you wrote a py wrapper on top of Simconnect
Maybe there is some language barrier here because I still don’t get what you wanted to know, as per Wombii answer, your initial question and following answers seems to suggest you were looking for some help

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I was looking for help, but I think I got the answers. My negativity was about the GUI, not you guys.
Thanks!