XPlane plugin setup
When you have the XPlane plugin installed according to the Xplane plugin
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,
XPlane plugin 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 accesible
through Settings / Joystick, Keys & Equipment menu in XPlane.
Press the desired joystick button, then check the checkbox next to the tabs (under the mouse pointer
in the screenshot above) and the following dialog will appear.
Click the combobox in the upper part of the dialog and select X System folder.

Select the linuxtrack line in the lower part of the dialog.

Finally select the desired command (ltr_run, ltr_pause or ltr_recenter).

Repeat those steps for other actions (pause, recenter) and when done, just close the window and now you
can controll 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.

When you create or select a key binding, use the checkbox 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.
PilotView interface
Recent Linuxtrack versions contain an interface, allowing Linuxtrack's XPlane plugin to communicate with
PilotView plugin(version 1.7+) by Sandy Barbour.
To enable the PilotView interface, open the PilotView.ini file (located in Resources/plugins/PilotView
directory in your XPlane 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 XPlane and start the tracking - now, when PilotView plugin is enabled, the tracking should work.
Troubleshooting PilotView interface
Should you encounter any problems, please follow these steps:
- Verify you have PilotView 1.7 or higher (see the titlebar of its Config window)
- If you installed PilotView plugin before May 19th 2013, please download the fresh version and try
again (don't forget the required modification of the .ini file!)
- If you didn't reinstal the Linuxtrack plugin, please do so in the ltr_gui (Misc. pane)
- In the plugins menu inside XPlane, open Lnuxtrack and Linuxtrack Setup menu -
there should be a line saying: "PilotView plugin found, chanelling headtracking data through it!".
Should you encounter any problems getting this to work, please contact me first, so I can determine where
the problem is.