FgFuse

A screenshot of a running FlightGear and nautilus browsing the prop radix

FgFuse is a fuse file system for Linux that lets you browse, read and write the properties of FlightGear from a mount point.

Communication between FgFuse and FlightGear is done via a socket connection.

Note  FgFuse is written in Python and needs the python-fuse package installed.

Download

You can download the script from here

Usage

First of all you need to launch FlightGear with the --telnet option:

fgfs --telnet=10000

where 10000 is the telnet port to listen to. After launching FlightGear, launch FgFuse for example like this:

python fgFuse.py 127.0.0.1 10000 /tmp/fg/

where

• 127.0.0.1 is the address of the PC running FlightGear
• 10000 is the telnet port which FlightGear session is listening to
• /tmp/fg/ is the empty directory that will be mounted

When finished unmount the folder with this command:

fusermount -u /tmp/fg/

Troubleshooting

• The script needs to connect to FlightGear via telnet. If you launch the script too soon, it could be possible that FlightGear has not opened the socket yet.
• The script is at an early development stage, so expect errors to occur.