23 minutes ago, waltpop said:

Not really sure now if I did or not. I thought I did, but I'm 78 so that might say something. 

Heh, you got me beat by a decade and sometimes I’m not sure either!  I have an appointment this morning that will keep me preoccupied for the next few hours but this afternoon I’ll make a few short videos of everything I did to get my PFP7 updated  and what I do to make it “light up” and display the PFP7 screen with the PMDG’s PFP.  I don’t have a hosting service for pics, but I can and do host videos.  In the meantime maybe one of the other kind souls here on Avsim may offer you a working solution.  Good luck and Blue Skies,

-B

2 hours ago, btacon said:

Heh, you got me beat by a decade and sometimes I’m not sure either!  I have an appointment this morning that will keep me preoccupied for the next few hours but this afternoon I’ll make a few short videos of everything I did to get my PFP7 updated  and what I do to make it “light up” and display the PFP7 screen with the PMDG’s PFP.  I don’t have a hosting service for pics, but I can and do host videos.  In the meantime maybe one of the other kind souls here on Avsim may offer you a working solution.  Good luck and Blue Skies,

-B

Thank you my friend. I appreciate you trying to help me. I'm ripping my hair out on this one. 

I purchased the PMDG 777-200 and I'm not sure if its compatible with my PFP7, so I just not purchased the PMDG 777-300er and from what I could see this one "IS' supposed to be compatible. Well I just tried again and "Nope" not working in this plane either.  Getting to be expensive just to get this to work. I will be attending Flightsim Expo in RI next month, so I may have to wait till them and talk to the folks from WINWING there. 

46 minutes ago, waltpop said:

I purchased the PMDG 777-200 and I'm not sure if its compatible with my PFP7, so I just not purchased the PMDG 777-300er and from what I could see this one "IS' supposed to be compatible. Well I just tried again and "Nope" not working in this plane either.  Getting to be expensive just to get this to work. I will be attending Flightsim Expo in RI next month, so I may have to wait till them and talk to the folks from WINWING there. 

Hi Walt,  The 300 should definitely work.  
Have you been able to see the Winwing unit on the homescreen of Simapp? 

If so skip to Section B:

If not this would be my advice.

Go ahead and uninstall Simapp so we can start fresh

Not sure how easy this is for you but as @btacon mentioned, unplug as many USB devices as possible, I have my peripherals on a Hub with on/off switches on each port for this very reason... 

Unplug the Winwing PFP

Reboot.

Reinstall Simapp 

Plug the PFP back in (to a different port if you have one so you can see the "installing new HW" message

Give it a minute and the PFP should show up on it's own on the home screen of Simapp. You may have to restart Simapp 1x

If you get this far successfully then we are in good shape!  If not something unrelated to MSFS is going on.  

 

Section B:

Go ahead and shut down, plug your peripherals back in and restart the system.

Launch simapp and verify the PFP is visible on the homescreen

Launch MSFS

Reselect the 777-300 and a livery

Start your flight making sure you aren't using a custom panel state to be safe

Once you hit fly now and the plane initializes the PFP should mirror the CDU of the 777.

 

If not the problem is between simapp and MSFS/777.  You can try updating the firmware of the PFP unit within Simapp, that sometimes helps and/or try updating simapp.  

I am not on the latest version so I can't confirm that version works on my end. 

Hopefully someone smarter has a better suggestion for you but this should at least help identify where the issue is occuring.   I am mid flight or I would add screen grabs for you.  

-Paul

 

Forgot to ask, do you use any other software for your HW?  Like Spad for example?   The reason I ask is I do and I had to disable the PFP from my Spad profile so it didn't try to control it as well as simapp.

 

 

Edited May 23, 20251 yr by psolk

I am doeing a 773 flight at the moment ( MSFS2020 ) and the Winwing PFP7 Panel ( over SimAppPro ) does work fine and well !!

Should work, if you have problems check your settings witin the SimApp in particular the path settings for the flight simulators you use..

cheers 😉

2 hours ago, pmplayer said:

I am doeing a 773 flight at the moment ( MSFS2020 ) and the Winwing PFP7 Panel ( over SimAppPro ) does work fine and well !!

Should work, if you have problems check your settings witin the SimApp in particular the path settings for the flight simulators you use..

cheers 😉

That could very well be my problem. I'm leaning towards a path problem.  The paths I have now  are the ones SinAppPro put in when I installed SimAppPro

16 hours ago, psolk said:

Hi Walt,  The 300 should definitely work.  
Have you been able to see the Winwing unit on the homescreen of Simapp? 

If so skip to Section B:

If not this would be my advice.

Go ahead and uninstall Simapp so we can start fresh

Not sure how easy this is for you but as @btacon mentioned, unplug as many USB devices as possible, I have my peripherals on a Hub with on/off switches on each port for this very reason... 

Unplug the Winwing PFP

Reboot.

Reinstall Simapp 

Plug the PFP back in (to a different port if you have one so you can see the "installing new HW" message

Give it a minute and the PFP should show up on it's own on the home screen of Simapp. You may have to restart Simapp 1x

If you get this far successfully then we are in good shape!  If not something unrelated to MSFS is going on.  

 

Section B:

Go ahead and shut down, plug your peripherals back in and restart the system.

Launch simapp and verify the PFP is visible on the homescreen

Launch MSFS

Reselect the 777-300 and a livery

Start your flight making sure you aren't using a custom panel state to be safe

Once you hit fly now and the plane initializes the PFP should mirror the CDU of the 777.

 

If not the problem is between simapp and MSFS/777.  You can try updating the firmware of the PFP unit within Simapp, that sometimes helps and/or try updating simapp.  

I am not on the latest version so I can't confirm that version works on my end. 

Hopefully someone smarter has a better suggestion for you but this should at least help identify where the issue is occuring.   I am mid flight or I would add screen grabs for you.  

-Paul

 

Forgot to ask, do you use any other software for your HW?  Like Spad for example?   The reason I ask is I do and I had to disable the PFP from my Spad profile so it didn't try to control it as well as simapp.

 

 

Thank you Paul. I will try all of this and keep my fingers crossed. Not sure what you mean by a "Custom Panel State." I just PMDG 777-300er and have not even flown it yet so panel state should be virgin. I've made no adjustments. HW? I'm assuming Hardware, right? Thank you sooooo much. I'm hoping this will work. Appreciate all you fellow flyers do for me.  Hopefully we will see you an the Tarmac in Atlanta, Denver, Louisville or other airports on MSFS. Thanks Walt

41 minutes ago, waltpop said:

That could very well be my problem. I'm leaning towards a path problem.  The paths I have now  are the ones SinAppPro put in when I installed SimAppPro

You have to us  your paths u using for your sim/sims, i had the same at beginning with SimAppPro and realized that I had to change some paths that the SimApp has set wrong - Good luck !

cheers 😉

17 hours ago, psolk said:

Hi Walt,  The 300 should definitely work.  
Have you been able to see the Winwing unit on the homescreen of Simapp? 

If so skip to Section B:

If not this would be my advice.

Go ahead and uninstall Simapp so we can start fresh

Not sure how easy this is for you but as @btacon mentioned, unplug as many USB devices as possible, I have my peripherals on a Hub with on/off switches on each port for this very reason... 

Unplug the Winwing PFP

Reboot.

Reinstall Simapp 

Plug the PFP back in (to a different port if you have one so you can see the "installing new HW" message

Give it a minute and the PFP should show up on it's own on the home screen of Simapp. You may have to restart Simapp 1x

If you get this far successfully then we are in good shape!  If not something unrelated to MSFS is going on.  

 

Section B:

Go ahead and shut down, plug your peripherals back in and restart the system.

Launch simapp and verify the PFP is visible on the homescreen

Launch MSFS

Reselect the 777-300 and a livery

Start your flight making sure you aren't using a custom panel state to be safe

Once you hit fly now and the plane initializes the PFP should mirror the CDU of the 777.

 

If not the problem is between simapp and MSFS/777.  You can try updating the firmware of the PFP unit within Simapp, that sometimes helps and/or try updating simapp.  

I am not on the latest version so I can't confirm that version works on my end. 

Hopefully someone smarter has a better suggestion for you but this should at least help identify where the issue is occuring.   I am mid flight or I would add screen grabs for you.  

-Paul

 

Forgot to ask, do you use any other software for your HW?  Like Spad for example?   The reason I ask is I do and I had to disable the PFP from my Spad profile so it didn't try to control it as well as simapp.

 

 

Paul, your help fixed it for me, A BIG THANK YOU ! I was so upset because it wasn't working for me. I did everything you said and I'm good to go. Once again thank you to everyone here who helped me. A great bunch of people for sure. Since I just purchased the PMDG 777-300 not I have to learn to fly it. Hope to meet you in the sky some day. Have a great day. Walt

I agree it may be a path issue.  When I first installed sim app pro I recall finding the path descriptions not as clear as they could have been.

On another note, it sure would be good if winwing supported the 737max on the PFP7 given it’s closer to the button layout for the max than the PFP3.

2 minutes ago, pmplayer said:

You have to us  your paths u using for your sim/sims, i had the same at beginning with SimAppPro and realized that I had to change some paths that the SimApp has set wrong - Good luck !

cheers 😉

Thank you, I finally have everything working thanks to people like yourself who gave me helpful feed back. Your all a great group of people for sure. Again Thank You Walt (See you in the sky's)

1 hour ago, waltpop said:

Paul, your help fixed it for me, A BIG THANK YOU ! I was so upset because it wasn't working for me. I did everything you said and I'm good to go. Once again thank you to everyone here who helped me. A great bunch of people for sure. Since I just purchased the PMDG 777-300 not I have to learn to fly it. Hope to meet you in the sky some day. Have a great day. Walt

That's brilliant Walt thank you for letting us know!!  Happy to help,

Happy flights!

-Paul

2 hours ago, waltpop said:

Thank you, I finally have everything working thanks to people like yourself who gave me helpful feed back. You’re all a great group of people for sure. Again Thank You Walt (See you in the sky's)

Wonderful news Walt and agreed…a great group of people here.  Blue skies,

-B

Wink

 

2 hours ago, psolk said:

That's brilliant Walt thank you for letting us know!!  Happy to help,

Happy flights!

-Paul

WINK