HI,
I am currently using a VR Panel mod for the EFB (GitHub - buzinin/msfs2024-efb-panel: MSFS 2024 In-Game Panel for EFB) as MSFS 2024 included EFB is not interactable whilst in VR.
When opening the Simbrief Dispatch app through the EFB panel it sadly is an eternal loading screen. Turning off the mod and using the standard MSFS EFB loads simbrief dispatch without a problem.
Im guessing there is some conflicts with the mods that wont authorise the 3rd party panel to open the dispatch app (navigraph charts works fine by the way).
Is there anyway around this at all? Any help would be greatly appreciated as would love to get the full functionality within the VR setting.
Thank you in advance for taking the time to read this and for any assitance you can provide.
Have a great day 
Hello! Welcome to our forum!
We have not intentionally blocked anything. We shall investigate!
Kind Regards,
Malte
Hello again!
We have investigated this issue and have concluded that we will not attempt to fix it. We usually try to support these workarounds that inevitably appear as the simulator breaks things, but this time it is too far out of our comfort zone.
To begin with, to be clear, this is an issue with the mod, not our app.
With that in mind, here are our top reasons:
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The mod contains several hacky workarounds that could break at any time, which means it is not worthwhile for us to find fixes. Anything we’d do would be workarounds for their workarounds. This is not acceptable.
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The mod is closed-source, meaning that we can’t see the code that we’d be developing workarounds for. In addition to this, the released code is partially obfuscated for some reason.
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From the code and filenames that we can see, we can tell that this mod is intercepting communication for storage and communication, they could start stealing your credentials at any time.
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The simulator developers are already working on fixing this from their side, meaning that any work we put in will be null and void as soon as their fix is out.
I think it is easy to see why we do not want to make any efforts to support this modification. We’re sorry for the inconvenience, but you will have to continue using this at your own risk.
Kind Regards,
Malte
I really appreciate you taking time to look at this for me.
Firstly, I’m not very intelligent, so any sort of coding/modding is outside my mental capacity.
From what you mentioned this “mod” sounds a little unsavoury at the least, so l thank you for bringing it to my attention. I will uninstall it and have to wait with baited breath for Asobo to come up with an official fix.
Can I cheekily ask, is this any future plans to make a Simbrief panel (similar to the Navigraph charts panel)? This would help resolve the lack of EFB interaction in the future.
Thanks again Malte for looking into the matter in the first place. I hope your work day flys by.
Of course! I’m happy to help.
Sounds like a good plan! Did they not fix this already, though, judging by the posts in this topic?
Unfortunately, there are no such plans at the moment. This would be a separate development effort, as the 2020 panel is not compatible with 2024, and the EFB application is tailored to the EFB. We currently have too many other projects to take another one on.
That said, would you prefer a dedicated panel over the EFB application? If so, why?
Kind Regards,
Malte