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Updates For Planes; Arno

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Arno,

You do a cool update check system on your MCX. It calls home to see if there is an update. I have wanted something like this for my planes forever.

Can you have a metadata flag for an update availability flag?

I was wondering last night about doing something like this;
* Button on the airplane control panel, or built in hidden gauge. I'll call this 'phone home' system.
* Phone home system calls home
* Phone home system looks up 'special webpage created only with a 'metadata tag' that has a code in it. If the code is a higher number then the plane has, then it flags a window on the plane stating 'there is an update available'.


I do not have my own server. I go through a server service for my website. I can create webpages. What exactly would the webpage need to have the information needed to flag for an update? I would really love to do this. Very curious.

I guess I would need a C++ program file to do the 'calling home' and checking.

I envy the other guys that have scenery updates (ORBX) that can tell you when updates are out. That is a cool feature.

It would also be cool, I think, to have a updates control panel (similar to ORBX) where your planes are shown that you have on the computer, and the ones that have updates are flagged with a red mark, etc.
 
Hi Bill,

What I have in the tools is quite simple. Whenever I make a new build a text file is uploaded to the web server with the date of the latest release. The tool knows when it was build and compares that with the date from the web server file.

I use C# for my tools and it's easy there to load a URL and get the text returned. I'm sure you can do it in C++ as well.
 
A thousand thanks, Arno.

So it can actually read a document online? Not by just the name of the document, but whats in it? Interesting....

I need to find someone that can make this for me.



DaveWG, its for my planes to be able to check home for updates. If an update is released, the 'system' in the plane package can notify the owner/customer that an update is available at his purchase site.


Bill
 
Hi Bill,

It's just like accessing a HTML file from a web server. Your browser will also load the URL and receive the text content of the HTML file. I do the same with a simple text file that contains the relevant meta data.
 
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