X-Plane plug-in setup

When you have the X-Plane plug-in installed according to the X-Plane plug-in installation, a short setup is needed in order to use it - keys or joystick buttons have to be bound in order to start, stop, recenter and pause the tracking. Please note, that the setup of tracking parameters (sensitivities, ...) is done in the Linuxtrack GUI, X-Plane plug-in doesn't have any means to do that.

Joystick buttons setup

Joystick buttons are setup using Buttons : Adv pane in the Joystick & Equipment window, that is accessible through Settings / Joystick, Keys & Equipment menu in X-Plane. Joystick button setup dialog.

Press the desired joystick button, then check the check-box next to the tabs (under the mouse pointer in the screen-shot above) and the following dialog will appear. Joystick button sectionopen dialog. Click the combo-box in the upper part of the dialog and select X System folder. Linuxtrack section selected.
Select the linuxtrack line in the lower part of the dialog. Command selection.
Finally select the desired command (ltr_run, ltr_pause or ltr_recenter). Joystick button set.
Repeat those steps for other actions (pause, recenter) and when done, just close the window and now you can control Linuxtrack using the new bindings.

Keyboard bindings setup

Keyboard bindings are setup pretty much in the same way - use Keys pane in the Joystick & Equipment window, that is accessible through Settings / Joystick, Keys & Equipment menu. Keyboard binding setup.
When you create or select a key binding, use the check-box next to the tabs and continue the same way as for joystick bindings.

You can also press Add new key assignment button in the middle bottom, that will create new key position - just press the newly created button and then press the key (or key combination) that you want to assign to it. Then again select the desired binding.

Pilot View interface

Recent Linuxtrack versions contain an interface, allowing Linuxtrack's X-Plane plug-in to communicate with Pilot View plug-in(version 1.7+) by Sandy Barbour.

To enable the Pilot View interface, open the Pilot View.ini file (located in Resources/plugins/Pilot View directory in your X-Plane installation folder) in your favorite text editor and add a line "EnableExternalData = 1" to the CONFIG section, so the result reads like this:

[CONFIG]
EnableExternalData = 1
AutoStart = 0
EngineVibration = 1
...

When done, start X-Plane and start the tracking - now, when Pilot View plug-in is enabled, the tracking should work.

Troubleshooting Pilot View interface

Should you encounter any problems, please follow these steps: Should you encounter any problems getting this to work, please contact me first, so I can determine where the problem is.