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Here are the humble beginnings[1] of a working example to read the ship status of #x4foundations in a format very similar to the Status File of #EliteDangerous

Both games are quite similar and by using a “well established” format it should be possible to use this with existing companion apps – like my own #SimPit

It uses the “Named Pipe API” of “sn_mod_support_apis” – on #Linux PC This was not supported by this MOD so far but I made it work.

Well, at least on my machine

And yes, the pipe server works with some minor adjustments for other _existing_ apps as well. Here is a demo of #X4ExternalApp with a data feed directly from X4: Foundations – it does not use the #X4PythonPipeServer though, since that is not really needed, so I had to make some small adjustments in it’s connection routine but that was like 2 lines of code

[1] TBF the humble beginnings were back in 2021 (https://beko.famkos.net/2021/05/01/getting-into-x4-foundations-modding-on-linux/) but I kinda let it slide to tinker and build my Primary Buffer Panel (https://beko.famkos.net/category/simpit/) first. Other games made it easier to retrieve game data and I did learn a lot during that time but it was X4 that started it all.

https://beko.famkos.net/2023/03/28/looking-for-x4-foundations-players-on-linux-pc/