simbridge location for firewall allow

[coral wadi]

As in title where is simbridge so i can allow it through the firewall since for me it doesnt start properly (powershells opens and closes)

[plucky sedge]

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[rough goblet]

.community it's in the community folder

[plucky sedge]

FlyByWire Support | Identifying your Community folder

To find the Community folder that MSFS is using please follow these steps:

1. Go to General Settings in MSFS and activate Developer Mode.
2. Go to the menu and select 'Virtual File System'.
3. Click on 'Packages Folders' and select 'Open Community Folder'.

This opens the Community folder in a Windows Explorer. Please ensure that your addons are installed in the folder that is opened.

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[coral wadi]

Hm no dice allowed the fbw-simbridge app in the Community folder but still just starts does nothing and closes

[rough goblet]

Is it really closed or just in the app tray?

.sbdebug can you try starting it like described below and see if it shows any errors?

[plucky sedge]

FlyByWire Support | Why does SimBridge crash?

If SimBridge crashes moments after start, it could be due to bad installation of SimBridge, missing modules or another issue. In order to assist you further we will need to see your SimBridge logs.

1. Open the folder where SimBridge is installed.
2. Open a terminal window in that location (Hold SHIFT and right click on the empty space of the folder, then select "Open Windows Terminal", "Open Command Prompt", or "Open Powershell Window".
3. Type .\fbw-simbridge.exe and press enter.
4. Screenshot the output of the console and send it to us.

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[coral wadi]

It doesnt show it as started at least it opens powershell doesnt write anything and closes will try after dinner

[coral wadi]

Sorry was to lazy to transfer it to my phone so photo of a screenshot has to do for now

[coral wadi]

weird did the same thing to get a better screenshot but now it doesnt give any return

current

and i found the screenshot from yesterday

[rough goblet]

This looks like your antivirus is removing files. Did you reinstall simbridge after adding it as an exception to the antivirus?

[coral wadi]

I reinstalled it after putting an exception in the firewall

[coral wadi]

This Screenshot is after that reinstall

is there anything specific to the installlocation that could mess with it?

[rough goblet]

@peak gazelle you might have more knowledge about this topic.

[peak gazelle]

Can you install Simbridge on a different location?

I'm not sure what the issue with this error

[coral wadi]

changed the install location in the FBW installer now it gives me this

which seems to be the same thing as previous

[peak gazelle]

Weird, would you like to try building Simbridge from source?

[coral wadi]

give me a bit i Fed up and deleted the simbridge install in the previous loc now it refuses to uninstall in the installer

[coral wadi]

Can try

Restarting pc atm

[peak gazelle]

Clone our Simbridge repo, run the commands until the build: ones and LMK

https://github.com/flybywiresim/simbridge

[coral wadi]

Have added that folder to exception in firewall will try that once more then ill do the manual install

[coral wadi]

would a short TLDR on this be possible i aint a github person

[peak gazelle]

unzip the zip somewhere, open a terminal there (same way you did to run simbridge) and run the commands

[coral wadi]

what would "run the commands" be in this case?

[peak gazelle]

without the $

[coral wadi]

so i just punch in "npm install"? (told you im not a github person )

[peak gazelle]

After you extracted it, yeah on the folder you did so

[coral wadi]

in the extracted folder?

[peak gazelle]

correct

[peak gazelle]

Ah yeah as the page says you also need nodejs, install it here: https://nodejs.org/dist/v18.20.4/node-v18.20.4-x64.msi

[coral wadi]

guess this is the rootproblem? i permission problem?

[peak gazelle]

Hm could be

try running simbridge as admin?

Not this command, but generally simbridge

see if that does a thing

[coral wadi]

opened and closed like b4

[peak gazelle]

hm

Try running this command prompt you opened for the npm install command as admin

i believe its because you are in Program Files and not in like Documents

[coral wadi]

okay switched to documents now its doing stuff

(without admin) (not like i know how to execute it as admin)

[peak gazelle]

Awesome

[coral wadi]

aaah wait ima uninstall the installer installed simbridge real quick it gives me errors but maybe its because its already installed in that loc

[peak gazelle]

Ah darn it wants python as well

mate i dont want to put you through extra trouble, if you can give me a few hours I'll try something on my end

If you don't need NodeJS I recommend uninstalling it

[coral wadi]

ok

thx for the help tho its weird it worked b4 but i reset the pc to get rid of all the junk clogging up this pc and now it just doesnt want anymore

[coral wadi]

@peak gazelle no need for that extra work from you found my problem: i didnt have the x64 version of Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable installed simbridge is working now

[coral wadi]

Thx for all the help regardless

[peak gazelle]

Ohhhh that makes a lot of sense