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P3D v4 Gauge to measure ambient temperature

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Hello!
I'm trying to put together an xml gauge to measure AMBIENT TEMPERATURE simulation variable.
I hope that P3D makes differences of ambient temperatures amond seasons and day hour like the real world.
I have modified an SDK example gauge to make the measure and seems to read something.

1) In a summer afternoon, in north Italy, it starts reading 14 that should be °C (Celcius like the manual reports).
Well, if the gauge measures correctly, they should be maybe 34°C.
Is it that we have to add a standard day temperature of 20°C, so 14+20=34?

2) Flying from ground to 45000 ft, the values indeed decrease going to -56, but no differences if I change Season to winter.

Maybe my gauge is faulty, so I here attach the xml if someone would like to take a look at.

Thanks a lot for any valuable input.

Sergio
 

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Weather is not controlled by the season. Setting the Time/Date to summer will NOT result in summer temperatures.

You need to change the weather either manually (you can choose a weather theme if you want "summer" (Fair Skies or Thunderstorms) or "winter") or by downloading real world weather for today, using an addon program. The former will create the same weather around the world (no changes with location), the latter will create varying weather around the world.
 
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tgibson said:
Weather is not controlled by the season. Setting the Time/Date to summer will NOT result in summer temperatures.

You need to change the weather either manually (you can choose a weather theme if you want "summer" (Fair Skies or Thunderstorms) or "winter") or by downloading real world weather for today, using an addon program. The former will create the same weather around the world (no changes with location), the latter will create varying weather around the world.
Click to expand...
Well, what if I want a perfect clear sky in a winter day (chilling temperature) without an addon?
Is it possible to edit weather pre-sets?

Any idea on AMBIENT TEMPERATURE variable?
Thanks!
 
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It's up to you to define the weather you seek. The sim will not do that for you. All information regarding how to do that via SimConnect (only way programmatically) is contained within the SDK.
 
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If you want a perfectly clear day in winter then from the starting screen:

1. Choose Weather Theme radio button. Select Clear Skies Theme.
2. Then choose User Defined radio button and click Change.
3. Click on the word Temp
4. Change the temperature (and dew point if desired) to your desired values.
5. Click OK. Click OK.
 
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This is a great input!
This way I'll be able to catch two pigeons with one stone:
1) testing jet engine performance with different temperatures
2) test my gauge and understand how P3D treats AMBIENT TEMPERATURE variable.

Thank you!

Sergio
 
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Clear weather theme.
Select Winter season/set date to December for northern latitudes.

This is a flight simulator, not a weather simulator... so it's not going to define weather the way you might think it should. I can set the date to 1 JAN 23 and set the temperature to 100* F at the north pole... and that will be the ambient temperature at the north pole.

When you select clear weather theme... you are setting the sim to ISA standard.
 
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I understood, so my AMBIENT TEMPERATURE gauge is working well (ISA standard = 14°C).

Now I still have the issue to change the environmental temperature because in P3D v4.5 I wasn't able to find where to set the temperature.
I went to WEATHER USER-DEFINED, ADVANCED WEATHER.

Since I don't need a full weather engine add-on, what I would needed is just a tool to change the temperature.
Any ideas?
Please let me know.

Thanks!
 
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The only tool is the user-defined weather GUI built in. Unless you want to write a SimConnect gauge that sets the weather using METARs.
 
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