Introducing Pilot's Deck, a StreamDeck Plugin

[Fragtality]

6 hours ago, GASimPilot said:

Thanks for the reply.  I have been trying to get the lua scripting working, and I cannot figure out how to read "A:PLANE HEADING DEGREES MAGNETIC" successfully.  It always comes back 0.   Here is my script.  It does write the 0 correctly to the Heading Bug.  If you could point me to my error, I would greatly appreciate it.

SimVar("A:PLANE HEADING DEGREES MAGNETIC")
SimVar("K:HEADING_BUG_SET")

function PFD_HDG_SYNC()

local curhdg = SimRead("A:PLANE HEADING DEGREES MAGNETIC")

SimCommand("K:HEADING_BUG_SET:" .. curhdg)

end

You're close ;D
The Variable Syntax is the Same as used in the Actions, so it should be:

SimVar("(A:PLANE HEADING DEGREES MAGNETIC, Degrees)")
SimRead("(A:PLANE HEADING DEGREES MAGNETIC, Degrees)")

 

What eventually could be an Issue is the Concatenation when the Value returned is not an Integer/whole Number.
Maybe print the resulting Command to the lua.log to analyze if the Result is correct

Log("K:HEADING_BUG_SET:" .. curhdg)

 

[GASimPilot]

Thank you so much for your help!  I got it working.  The returned number was indeed a problem, and I had to handle it by rounding.  I also had created my own logging but didn't include it in my function I posted.  So using the one already there that you showed is easier and great to know about.  I am posting the final function here in the hopes it helps someone else down the line.

SimVar("(A:PLANE HEADING DEGREES MAGNETIC, Degrees)")
SimVar("K:HEADING_BUG_SET")

function PFD_HDG_SYNC()
    local curhdg = SimRead("(A:PLANE HEADING DEGREES MAGNETIC, Degrees)")
    curhdg = math.floor(curhdg + 0.5)
    Log("K:HEADING_BUG_SET:" .. curhdg)
    SimCommand("K:HEADING_BUG_SET:" .. curhdg)
end

 

[John Dowson]

Note that you can do such things using calculator code (or by defining a preset for the calculator code), e.g.
(A:PLANE HEADING DEGREES MAGNETIC, Degrees) near (>K:HEADING_BUG_SET)