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Hope this helps. I should mention that I'm running MS FSX in DX9 mode and all of my switches in SPAD are set to "FSUIPC Offset Change". With the alternator/battery switch OFF; Only the landing lights turn on/off. With the alternator/battery switch ON; The panel, beacon, nav, strobe, and landing lights work individually or in combination with the others. The taxi lights never work, but I think that is because the default C172 wasn't modeled with taxi lights. You could try assigning the FSX keyboard combination (Shift+L) to the landing light switch in SPAD setup. That would allow you to bypass FSUIPC to verify that it's not a hardware problem. Ernie

What aircraft are you using? I just tested my Saitek Switch Panel with FSUIPC 4.944a and SPAD v0.5.1. In both the default C172 and Carenado C172 all lighting, including panel lights worked as they should. The panel switch did not funciton correctly with the A2A C172. However, I had not tested this in any prior versions of FSUPIC4, so I can't say that it ever worked. The reason being that I don't do night flights and therefore never use the panel lights. I did notice that when using "Shift L", which is the FSX keyboard assignment, that the A2A panel lights have two brightnesses, which is certainly non-standard in that the FSX default is either ON or OFF. If the aircraft you are flying has only one level of brightness, then you can assign the key combination specified in FSX to the switch. My guess that it the switch is presently set to "FSUIPC Offset Change".

Sorry for no answers, you mention senery in the first line and this might be confusing some. To clarify, are you asking for the communications path between the various pictured objects? Thanks

I have a DTA Rotary Encoder wired with eight rotary switches; FSUIP4 finds the device and I've been able to map the switches in the "Buttons & Switches" tab and they all work fine. However, I would like to make the switches a bit courser. Right now it takes multiple clicks to change degrees on the VOR, etc., so it's not very realistic. I've not done any LUA programming, but have done programming and am willing to attempt LUA if that is the solution to my goal. Just need some advice, direction, etc. Thanks, Ernie