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