Install and connect EuroScope

The EuroScope plugin puts XPGuard controls on your ground radar. It:

• Draws stop bars, IHP lights, Takeoff Hold Lights (THL) and Runway Entrance Lights (REL).
• Lets you switch stop bars and IHP lights with a click.
• Picks and lights lead-on lights when you clear a bar, and switches lead-off rows with your active runways.
• Is the only client with Follow the Greens taxi guidance.

You drive the lights. The pilots see them live in their sims over VATSIM.

Installation

1. Download the plugin - open xpguard.net/get/euroscope in your browser.
2. Extract the zip.
3. In EuroScope: Plugins → Load, and select XPGuardES.dll.
4. Required: select XPGuard in the Plugins dialog. Move Ground Radar Display into Allowed to draw on types - as in the figure below.

EuroScope Plugin Settings Window

Allow drawing on Ground Radar Display

Without Ground Radar Display in Allowed to draw on types, the stop bars, THL and REL will not draw at all.

After OK, a draggable XPGuard button with a status dot appears on your radar:

XPGuard Statusbar/button on EuroScope Radar

Link your token

The token proves it is really you switching the lights. You set it once.

1. Click the XPGuard button → Set token. Your browser opens the XPGuard sign-in page.
2. Sign in with VATSIM and approve the device.
3. The token arrives by itself and is saved in xpguard-token.txt, next to the plugin. Done.

Manual method- paste a token. On your dashboard, open Controller token → Generate token → Copy (figure below), then type .xpg token <your token> in EuroScope. Keep your token private.

XPGuard Dashboard - Controller Token Page

Before you continue

Until the token is set, the button’s dot stays gray and you cannot control any bars.

Related guides

• The lights explained - what stop bars, lead-on lights, THL, REL and FTG mean.
• Contributing - map an airport - including the taxi-network (FTG) editor.
• Common questions

Learn the controls in order

1. Check the commands and settings.
2. Take your claims.
3. Switch stop bars and IHP, then learn lead-on controls.
4. Use REL and THL for automatic runway warnings.
5. Set up FTG list controls, then guide an aircraft.
6. Use standard routes and handoff.

Next: EuroScope commands.