Update on MSFS Team competing with 3rd party Devs

[ArcanePython931]

@SofaJockey you wont notice if you don’t use active addins like LittleNavmap.

@Bishop398

I think I may have answered this elsewhere, but SimConnect will not be available on XBox. XBox cannot listen for TCP connections as a server, so in order for SimConnect to work, it would need to have some kind of peer-peer mode added where the client is actually the TCP host

Aha. Thanks for confirming the issue. That’s imho bad news for any serious MSFS flightsimmer who would consider buying XBox-X as a replacement for low end PC hardware.

As far as information is considered, there has been very little put out officially, about the decision to abandon SimConnect for XBox. The question was put in the Q&A recently, and word was “we can’t announce it” or something.

Returning to the topic here, as far as I know (and people talk thruth about it) at least some trusted 3th party developers were left in the dark, below was submitted by a trusted third party developer, only 12 days ago in the main topic about this…with the intention to put our minds to rest, it would work until a replacement would be available. Also the network version. I’ll leave out the name, you can find it back there if needed.

So the SimConnect API itself is here to stay. The declaration of the network part to be “legacy” simply means (for us developers): do not use it going forward with new applications! And the implication is of course that for the time being those 3rd party apps need to be run on the same machine like FS 2020.

An I don’t know why you were picking up this date 7/27 again! “Legacy” means that “it will be supported for the time being” (in the sense that “it won’t go away”). If and when the networking part of SimConnect will be completely removed is anybody’s best guess, but mine would be “not before a networking replacement is there”. So we are really talking one, two or - who knows - maybe even five years from now on…

… so that is not true, SimConnect won’t be treated as common “legacy” for 2-5 years, it will be removed, at least for XBox-X, before there is any replacement. Period. I certainly hope they won’t abolish this proven technology for the PC version as well !! Common sources for PC and XBox… wasn’t that the plan ?

Above developer is right. There is definitely a way forward. Same machine (localhost) and don’t forget kids hook up their XBox devices all the time… and Microsoft published a procedure involving XBox Console Companion on PC, in order to connect to their XBox device from a PC ! with PC as client. Someone could make a simple driver for it… when Microsoft would release an API for the same method that XBox Console Companion uses to connect.