Dear All,

Sorry for starting a new topic if the question is discussed elsewhere, I haven't found it.

I would like to ask whether it is possible to read the information light states via LINDA or FSUIPC or anything else. I mean for example that I would like to read whether the APU start button light is ON, AVAIL, or OFF, and with this value I would like to make a program for some kind of hardware to control an LED appropriately. And of course if this works, the same for the other lights.

Thanks for the answer.

Best regards,

Adam

The FSLabs A3XX aircraft are a particular problem with minimal information and exposure of system status and operation. FSLabs has made available at a price additional software to interface for certain hardware suppliers. We are no privy to this SDK and we have had to employ a number of techniques and tricks to provide users with a working LINDA module. There is no way at present you can access the values you seek.

If you are planning your own hardware you should look at the Aerosoft A3XX series as Aerosoft provide much more data for home cockpit builders.

Dear Andrew,

Thanks for your answer. Sadly I expected this kind of answer, when I was last time trying to map some overhead buttons for FSLABS bus via LINDA, there was no way to do that, the appropriate offset was not available.

I've just looked at the Aerosoft A3XX LINDA aircraft model, just ran through it, but I only saw inputs, like buttons/switches, knobs. Which is exactly what LINDA is for, I just want to ask whether there is a solution for this problem, because now for me it's hard to imagine where could be these values and how to access them.

Thanks for your help.

Best regards,

Adam

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you should look at the Aerosoft A3XX series as Aerosoft provide much more data for home cockpit builders.

PS: Oh, maybe you've meant the Aersoft model itself, not the Aerosoft LINDA model? I'm confused..😟

If you use the LINDA Tracer you can search for appropriate Lvars. Look for those with suffixes like _light. If you set the watch function you can see the status change when the button, switch or light changes. I have not look specifically at the Aerosoft AXX Pro but I know many more values are made available.

Thanks for that hint, that will tell me the answer. 

One more question, not really topic related...Why is that I start LINDA console and there isn't any data in it. It's empty no matter what I do in the sim. FSUIPC is OK, version correct, synced to sim, button mappings are working. 

Last time when I was experimented with this I have used the console successfully. Could you pls help me what do I do wrong?

On maintenance page turn fault diagnosis mode on to see logging data. 

@aviator17 I have had time to look at the Aerosoft A3XX Pro Lvars and can confirm my earlier advice.

For the APU the following Lvars correspond to the APU button lights:

• AB_OVH_APU_MASTER_LIGHT_ON
• AB_OVH_APU_START_LIGHT_ON
• AB_OVH_APU_START_LIGHT_AVAIL
• AB_VC_OVH_AIR_APU_BLD_ON

You will find others for various lights.

To read the state of the lights use this LUA instruction (case sensitive):

x = ipc.readLvar("AB_VC_OVH_AIR_APU_BLD_ON")