New to Spad. I have my Saitek radio panel working using Spad. Next I tried to get my Honey Bravo lights to work. I can get either to work. But not both. It probably has something to do with Profiles. But I don't understand how to create a profile. I guess you create a profile and some how add radio and HB into the same profile. But, being new to Spad I have no idea on how to do this. 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank You

Bill McCracken

https://www.youtube.com/@LesOReilly

The lights have to be allocated to an individual button. E.G. switch on - led on. I also put in speech like " heading on"

It's all in the drop down box when you edit a command.

As Steve 86 above, look at Les's videos.

 Depending on what aircraft you want, search for an aircraft profile on spad for the alpha/bravo. Complete device. That will get you started and you can modify what you want from there.

Edited December 6, 20241 yr by petejohno1

The lights should be allocated to their specific sim events. The landing gear lights, for example, don't just look at the position of the gear switch. They are capable of looking at the position of the gear itself, so that when you see green you know the gear is down and locked, not just that you have put the switch down. I thought that was pretty neat. I'm not sure if that works in 2024 yet, however.

If it doesn't, you should be able to use Spad to connect them properly, but it will take a fair amount of research to get it right. Once you've figured it out, you will want to save that functionality as a snippet so you don't have to redo it for every plane you fly.

 

Its a huge learning curve, lots of You Tube videos about it.

However what I discovered on my own s there is some sort of "cheat sheet" foe the variable definitions to lookup for each aircraft. Also if you have the FULL version of SPAD - you can detect what variables the cockpit buttons and levers are  actually using - so you get a leg up on what you are looking for.

When you actually assign a button on your setup to the cockpit button, you either send an event usually using SIMCONNECT, or change the data value.  Those are the two events that are used mainly in the actual assignment.

I am currently trying to assign new buttons for A320 V2 and having 0 luck.

I noticed that 2024 seems to prefer B events instead of simconnect events. I've changed most of my previous events in 2020 to B events. The simconnect events seem to lag a lot and sometimes takes a few button activations to get them to work .

Thanks to all who replied.

Bill McCracken

15 hours ago, promnw said:

 

However what I discovered on my own s there is some sort of "cheat sheet" foe the variable definitions to lookup for each aircraft. Also if you have the FULL version of SPAD - you can detect what variables the cockpit buttons and levers are  actually using - so you get a leg up on what you are looking

I’ve tried this data monitor before, but there always seem to be variables that keep changing all the time and I have an endless list within seconds and unable to find the exact variable I need.

Where do you find this cheat sheet? 

On 12/14/2024 at 6:04 PM, AlexMD11 said:

I’ve tried this data monitor before, but there always seem to be variables that keep changing all the time and I have an endless list within seconds and unable to find the exact variable I need.

Yes it can look like data overload. Scary how much stuff is being sprayed around.

The trick I have found is to let it run for a few seconds as you do nothing, then stop it. Then there is an icon next to each event that lets you ignore it. Ignore everything you see, then restart. Repeat if it's still spamming. Now do what you want to monitor. That usually narrows it down.

On 12/14/2024 at 6:04 PM, AlexMD11 said:

Where do you find this cheat sheet?

I have not heard of this. But the online snippets are worth looking at however they are of very variable quality and completeness.