RWC Setup for Networked Clients

[lizz]

1 hour ago, sundog said:

Do me a favor - set up your server for real world weather. Does it look like the metar.rwx file on the clients are now identical sizes and have a file modification time from when you set up real weather on the server? I don't have a multi-PC setup to test with, but if you can give me that information I can answer your other questions.

 

Thanks for your answer.
I will do this most probably not earlier then wednesday and post here with the results.
 

[lizz]

Frank,

I installed RWC on both visual 1 & 2 PC´s
One of the PC´s gives me the following error when I am trying to activate the RWC installation (the other is fine):

<MyMailadres> Apparent OS or Hardware install.

I can continue from here but on this PC RWC is not showing up in the Skymaxx plugin menu
If we can solve this issue I will do the tests you asked for and post the results here in the forum.

Thanks for the support.  

[sundog]

I think Cameron will need to reset something on the licensing system for you. Please file a ticket with X-Aviation to make sure that gets done.

[Defiance_co]

lizz

email support, some others and myself foufn the inbuilt contact on xaviation site not working

email sent to support, we all got instant or very fast email reply with a code on

Tony

[lizz]

10 hours ago, Defiance_co said:

lizz

email support, some others and myself foufn the inbuilt contact on xaviation site not working

email sent to support, we all got instant or very fast email reply with a code on

Tony

Thanks for the tip but let me first follow the official procedure by issueing a ticket at X-Aviation. 

[lizz]

On 24-4-2016 at 7:34 PM, sundog said:

- Do I need to install RWC on the server PC as well?

No.

Do me a favor - set up your server for real world weather. Does it look like the metar.rwx file on the clients are now identical sizes and have a file modification time from when you set up real weather on the server? I don't have a multi-PC setup to test with, but if you can give me that information I can answer your other questions.

 

Frank, I still own you an answer to your question on this issue. Unfortunately there were some small activation issues of RWC on one of the visual PC's in my sim which prevented me to look into this earlier.
Now this item is solved I did some testing this evening:

• RWC installed on both visuals, and both on AUTO.
• I have set the weather on the server PC to Real weather
• Weather depiction on both visuals  almost identical to what is shown in the X-plane weather download screen on the Server PC. It is also identical to what is shown on Foreflight (See attached picture)
• Flying from KSBP, reporting Marginal VFR, overcast clouds (the magenta Dot in the lower part of the picture) to Paso Roble, reporting VFR (the green dot).
• When I am halfway the overcast layer disappears and I see VFR conditions, turning back to San Luis the overcast layer pops in again. I would expect that I see the overcast layer behind me when I travel towards Paso Roble.
• The  METAR.rwx files on both Visual PC's are not updated while the one on the Server PC is of actual date and time.

Hope this helps!
If you need me to do other tests please don't hesitate to ask.

Best regards,

Lisette

[sundog]

>  The  METAR.rwx files on both Visual PC's are not updated

Well, that would be the problem.

Try setting RWC to "always" on your client PC's.

[lizz]

Ok, did some more testing with both Visual RWC's on Always and it works fine.
Did the same flight as yesterday with almost identical weather conditions and now I left the cloud system behind on my way to Paso Roble. When making a 180 I clearly saw the clouds behind me.
I guess we can conclude that it is working as it should. 

I also checked the METAR.rwx files; they were still not updated on the visual PC's but I did see MAXX_METAR (I forgot the exact name......) files which actually were updated. I gues these files are identical as the METAR.rwx but specifically for RWC operation?

Thanks for your help, I will need to do some more flying now to gain some more experience and find the best settings for my sim.
 

[sundog]

That's right; RWC is downloading its own copies of the METAR data in "always" mode. It's sort of a fail-safe mode for setups like yours where the "stock" METAR data isn't getting where it needs to be for whatever reason.