MIDGsmooth - send MIDG-formatted GPS data to a FlightGear
instance
MIDGsmooth --help
| --infile infile_name [options]...
| --serial dev_name --outfile outfile_name
[options]...
MIDGsmooth is a utility that reads GPS data in MIDG format
from a text file or from an MIDG device connected to the serial port, parses
it and sends it to a FlightGear instance for replaying.
- --help
- Display usage information and exit.
- --infile
infile_name
- Read GPS data from infile_name.
- --serial
dev_name
- Read GPS data from the serial device named dev_name.
- --outfile
outfile_name
- Save the data retrieved from the device to outfile_name.
- --hertz
frequency
- Specify the frequency to use for sending data to the FlightGear instance.
By default, events are sent at a frequency of 60 Hz.
- --host
hostname
- Send the data to the FlightGear instance running on hostname.
If --host is not specified, the default is to send the
data to localhost.
- --skip-seconds
seconds
- Do not transmit the first seconds seconds of data.
This option is ignored when reading GPS data from a serial
device.
- --broadcast
- Send flight data model and control data as broadcast packets.
- --fdm-port
port
- Set the port flight data model data should be sent to. By default, data is
sent to port 5505.
- --ctrls-port
port
- Set the port control data should be sent to. By default, data is sent to
port 5506.
- --altitude-offset
meters
- Add the specified offset (in meters) to the altitude sent to
FlightGear.
MIDGsmooth exits with 0 on success, with -1
if the syntax of the command-line arguments is wrong or an error occurs.