Feature Request - Accept UDP inputs via headtrack

[CannonFodderSE]

Mark,
Really love X-Camera. Registered it, too.

However, I can no longer use it with head tracking using Linux (Kubuntu 23.10). FreeTrack using TrackIR 2.0 output no longer works me. FreeTrack runs and tracks head movement just fine, but does not work with X-Plane nor X-Camera. The TrackIR data is not being passed outside Wine.

When performing a system check via X-Camera it says "TrackIR - Unknown Status."

Using UDP as output for FreeTrack head movement functions normally within X-Plane, but not with X-Camera.

Saw that you also worked on headtrack/htrack plugin for X-Plane with amyinorbit. Would like to have X-Camera accept UDP input natively, preferably, or via headtrack/htrack plugin.

TrackIR has been slowly withering on the vine since 2012 for Linux and Mac users.

Sincerely,
Randy Bancroft

[markcellis]

Randy,

I had a forked version of HeadTrack that I modified to support X-Camera but I only built it for OSX as I had hoped that Amy would take the pull request and build it for all platforms but she has not had time to do that yet.

https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/forums/topic/296497-headtrack-beta/

Let me see if I can build it for Linux until she gets to processing that pull request.

[CannonFodderSE]

Mark,
Thanks for the quick reply.

I tried to compile the current version as a test run, but I think there is more to it than her build instruction at the bottom of the headtrack page. Not being professional programmer might have something to do with it too :).

I'll stand by and wait for the package to drop.

Sincerely,
Randy Bancroft

[CannonFodderSE]

Mark,
Finally got Amy's headtrack plugin with your X-camera patch to compile. Had to create a fresh install of Kubuntu LTS in a virtual machines with only the required dependencies installed.

The Linux only compiled plugin can be found here https://github.com/CannonFodderSE/Headtrac-X-camera until Amy release the official version.

Thanks for your great work!
Randy Bancroft

[CannonFodderSE]

Mark,
Forgot to say I tested it with X-Plane 12.0.9 on Kubuntu 23.10. Had to disable the OpenTrack plugin and enable Headtrack plugin.

Works Great!
Randy Bancroft

[markcellis]

Thanks. Glad it is working.

Mark