Vizard on non-localhost

[schaubh]

I just ran Vizard for the first time (ever!).

A couple things were not clear to me in trying to get it running:
The instructions on this page did not make it clear how to adjust the IP and port for the scenarioBasicOrbitStream: https://hanspeterschaub.info/basilisk/Vizard/VizardGUI.html
it does say you can adjust the attributes of VizInterface class
it does not tell you that to do this you need to capture the return from
vizSupport.enableUnityVisualization because that returned value is actually the instance of VizInterface class that you need to edit the attributes on.
The instructions are also not clear as to which IP address is being referenced. In this case, the IP address you need to set is the IP address of the Vizard host, not the basilisk host.
For my example: I run basilisk in WSL2. I installed Vizard direct on windows. I had to utilize the IP address I find from windows cmd ipconfig command for the "Ethernet adapter vEthernet (WSL)". I tried at first to use the WSL IP address and this does not work.
The following lines got things working for me in scenarioBasicOrbitStream:

vizMessenger = vizSupport.enableUnityVisualization(scSim, simTaskName, scObject
                                            , liveStream=True
                                            )
        vizMessenger.comProtocol     = "tcp"
        vizMessenger.comAddress      = "XXX.XX.X.X"
        vizMessenger.comPortNumber   = "5556"

There was a windows-side admin approval needed to allow the tcp stream as well.

[schaubh]

Also, I forgot to mention how much I appreciate the little Vizard Easter Egg =D.

[schaubh]

Thanks for sharing your experience. Documentation is always "work in progress".