UGSMOOTH(1)

💖 UGsmooth 💖

okay bestie, this is the UGSMOOTH(1) page from the FlightGear man pages 🦋 UGsmooth takes UGear-formatted GPS data and sends it to a FlightGear instance so you can replay your flights. literally iconic ✨

🎀 NAME 🎀

UGsmooth is the one that sends UGear-formatted GPS data over to a FlightGear instance 🛫

💅 SYNOPSIS 💅

UGsmooth --help
    | --infile infile_name [options]...
    | --flight flight_dir [options]...
    | --serial dev_name --outfile outfile_name [options]...

🧚 DESCRIPTION 🧚

okay so UGsmooth is a utility that reads GPS data in UGear format from three possible places: a text file, a directory full of flight data, or a device plugged into the serial port. it parses that data and sends it to a FlightGear instance for replaying. main character energy, no cap 👑

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• --help — shows you the usage info and exits. vibe check passed 💅
• --infile infile_name — reads GPS data from infile_name 📄
• --flight flight_dir — reads GPS data from the flight directory called flight_dir 📂
• --serial dev_name — reads GPS data from the serial device called dev_name 🔌
• --outfile outfile_name — saves whatever data came from the device into outfile_name 💾
• --hertz frequency — sets how often data gets sent to the FlightGear instance. if you don't pick one, it sends at 60 Hz by default ⏱️
• --host hostname — sends the data to the FlightGear instance running on hostname. if you skip this, it's localhost by default 🏠
• --broadcast — sends the flight data model and control data as broadcast packets 📡
• --opengc-port port — picks the port the OpenGC data goes to. default is port 6000 🚪
• --fdm-port port — picks the port the flight data model data goes to. default is port 5505 🛬
• --ctrls-port port — picks the port the control data goes to. default is port 5506 🎮
• --groundtrack-heading — works out the aircraft heading from the GPS velocity, instead of using the raw heading the device recorded 🧭
• --ground-speed — works out the ground speed from the GPS velocity, instead of using the raw speed the device recorded 🏎️
• --estimate-control-deflections — estimates control deflections from the angular velocities, instead of using the raw deflections the device recorded 🕹️
• --altitude-offset meters — adds the offset you give (in meters) to the altitude sent to FlightGear ⛰️
• --skip-seconds seconds — skips the first seconds seconds of data so they never get transmitted ⏭️. ngl this one gets ignored when you're reading from a serial device 🙈
• --no-real-time — stops the elapsed time from updating 🕰️
• --ignore-checksum — keeps data even if its checksums are invalid, instead of tossing it 🗑️. this one gets ignored when you're reading from a flight directory 🙈
• --sg-swap — turns on the special double swap logic for the (non-standard) stargate double format 🌀. it's a bit of a weird one, so be careful with it 💀

🌈 EXIT STATUS 🌈

UGsmooth exits with 0 if everything went well. it exits with -1 if your command-line arguments have the wrong syntax or if an error happens 🚨

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

fgfs(1), GPSsmooth(1), MIDGsmooth(1) 💜

and that's the whole page, bestie 🫶 FlightGear, last updated 2017-06-25 ✨ now go replay some flights 🧚💖