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Simfest Dispatch and BACARS V7.0.8

Started by Gary Oliver, Mon, 3 Feb 2020 19:44

macroflight

Two small observations about this amazing addon:

1: Hoppie has upgraded and improved his ACARS pages, and you can now see the number of connects per minute from each client on https://www.hoppie.nl/acars/system/online.html. And BACARS seems to connect a bit more often than the recommended rate.

On a long flight, my average was around 3.5 connects per minute. I stopped BACARS, and then my callsign was removed from the list after a few minutes. Started BACARS, and it came back, showing an uptime of a few minutes and slightly more than 3 connects/minute. I have no other ACARS client running. So it seems BACARS is the culprit.


2: Since I'm not a BAV member, it seems silly to send ACARS position reports to BAV every few minutes. But setting SaveToBAV to false in the BACARS config files does not stop those reports. Is there any other setting that can do it?

Gary Oliver

Thanks Macro, I'll take a look. 

It's probably high due to checking for messages to the callsign in the FMC flight number field and the internal BACARS field.

Don't want to end up on Hoppies hit list :)

Cheers
G

Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers

:-)

In the mean time I've written a much more detailed guide on what would be the best way to approach the polling challenge:
https://www.hoppie.nl/acars/system/tech.html
I don't know how much you implemented. In the end, even every 20 seconds is not so much of a problem, given my new server iron, but if I don't yell, everybody would poll at 5 seconds because they can.
Note that sending messages also counts as a "connect" so if you fire off a bunch of METARs, your score will increase and then slowly reduce to a more average value.

The greatest impact is made by some software out there that occasionally loops and then sends 300 equal METAR requests (with increasing message identifier) in two seconds. THAT causes pain.


Hoppie

QuadFan

Gary, I can confirm macroflight's observation about BACARS' polling interval. My session is showing:
Online For Connects   /min
51 minutes 155 3.00
Seb

cavaricooper

Gary-

For a while now I am stuck on the 'cookie" acceptance screen- it does not progress past. I am using a Mac when this occurs. When you have a minute would you please check?  Ta!



C
Carl Avari-Cooper, KTPA

Gary Oliver

The trick is to login to navigraph and simbrief in their own tabs before opening the portal

cavaricooper

Gary-

Thanks for responding- I did that without success.  I will try on a PC and check- as mentioned this issue occurs on the Mac.

Ta- C
Carl Avari-Cooper, KTPA

macroflight

Quote from: cavaricooper on Sun,  3 Nov 2024 15:27Gary-

Thanks for responding- I did that without success.  I will try on a PC and check- as mentioned this issue occurs on the Mac.

Ta- C

Try Chrome on the Mac. It works for me for this, but Safari does not.

cavaricooper

#168
Thanks- will try.... I have been using Safari... progress.... but....
Carl Avari-Cooper, KTPA

GodAtum

I've tried in both Firefox and Safari. Both get the same error. However Edge and Chrome seem to work.

cavaricooper

Got it working on Mac Chrome- ta!
Carl Avari-Cooper, KTPA