MIDGSMOOTH(1)

✨ MIDGSMOOTH(1) ✨ 💖 FlightGear man pages 💖

Okay bestie, this is the manual page for MIDGsmooth 🦋, which is the FlightGear man page crew's utility for MIDG-formatted GPS data. Let's get into it 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

MIDGsmooth 🧚 is how you send MIDG-formatted GPS data to a FlightGear instance. Literally the whole vibe ✨

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

You've got two main ways to call it, so pick your fighter 💜

MIDGsmooth --help
    | --infile infile_name [options]...
    | --serial dev_name --outfile outfile_name [options]...

🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

Okay so MIDGsmooth is giving "reads GPS data" energy 🫶 It can pull MIDG-format data from a plain text file or from an MIDG device hooked up to the serial port. Then it parses everything and ships it off to a FlightGear instance so it can be replayed. Iconic, no cap 🔥

👑 OPTIONS 👑

• --help — Shows you the usage info and then exits. Quick and easy 💅
• --infile infile_name — Reads the GPS data from infile_name. Bestie, this is your text-file option 📄
• --serial dev_name — Reads GPS data from the serial device called dev_name. The hardware route 🔌
• --outfile outfile_name — Saves whatever data came off the device into outfile_name. Keep your receipts 🧾
• --hertz frequency — Sets how often data gets sent to the FlightGear instance. By default, events go out at a frequency of 60 Hz ⭐
• --host hostname — Sends the data to the FlightGear instance running on hostname.

If you don't use --host, it defaults to sending to localhost. Lowkey the most common setup 🏠

• --skip-seconds seconds — Skips the first seconds seconds of data and doesn't transmit them. 🙈

This option gets ignored when you're reading from a serial device, so don't expect it to do anything there 💀

• --broadcast — Sends the flight data model and control data as broadcast packets. Main character energy 📡
• --fdm-port port — Sets the port that flight data model data gets sent to. By default, it goes to port 5505 🦋
• --ctrls-port port — Sets the port that control data gets sent to. By default, it goes to port 5506 🎀
• --altitude-offset meters — Adds the given offset (in meters) to the altitude that gets sent to FlightGear. Little boost, big vibes 🚀

🫧 EXIT STATUS 🫧

MIDGsmooth exits with 0 on success. It exits with -1 if the command-line arguments have the wrong syntax or if an error happens 😭

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

fgfs(1), GPSsmooth(1), UGsmooth(1) — iykyk 🧚

FlightGear 🌸 2017-06-25 — that's the source and date for this page, so you know exactly when it was written. Stay fabulous, bestie 💅✨🫶