Caravan Condition Lever Triggering Between High/Low?

[pilotjohn]

Hi Everyone,

I'm looking to see if anyone managed to get the Caravan condition lever to work through FSUIPC?

It seems to be using SET_FUEL_VALVE_ENG1, but something's off. It has 3 positions: cutoff, low and high.

When moving the lever in the sim, I see the events but both high and low have a param of 1, and cutoff 0.

Sending these form FSUIPC gets me cutoff at 0, and low at 1, but I can't seem to get into "high" from "low" or from "high" to "low" (sending 1 as param).

I found an Lvar called Condition_Lever_CutOff_1, which is set to 2.0 when the level is high, but setting this via FSUIPC does nothing in the aircraft.

PJ

 

 

[John Dowson]

Have you tried using the provided presets:

?

John

[fdcomet]

On 1/2/2023 at 8:44 PM, John Dowson said:

Have you tried using the provided presets:

?

John

Hi John,

 

Is it possible to share the whole list or where I can find it, thanks!

[John Dowson]

See https://hubhop.mobiflight.com/presets/

Please read the documentation on the WASM and using presets, in the Advanced User guide.

John

[fdcomet]

2 hours ago, John Dowson said:

See https://hubhop.mobiflight.com/presets/

Please read the documentation on the WASM and using presets, in the Advanced User guide.

John

Thank you very much John!

[Gabe_62]

I use a combo of FSUIPC and Axis & Ohs and Streamdeck profiles .... hence the A & Ohs... loads of presets.

Could someone explain why I can watch sim variables as they occur but only L vars ... not B vars.

Why can't I see B vars occur ?

The Black Square Caravan has a 3 position condition lever and I can switch between Cutoff and Low/Ground idle easily... but the High Idle is a B Var and I can only get it to show its activated (I e after manually changing it using the mouse) but cannot "initiate" the change using a button.

Why are things so complicated  ?

Sad face x5..... 

 

Thnx

[John Dowson]

4 hours ago, Gabe_62 said:

Could someone explain why I can watch sim variables as they occur but only L vars ... not B vars.

B vars are "input events" - see https://docs.flightsimulator.com/html/Additional_Information/Reverse_Polish_Notation.htm (section Variable Types).
We can only provide access to the variable types permitted in the SDK - A type (simvars) and k type (events) via simconnect, and L type (lvars) and h type (hvars) via the gauges API using the WASM. You may be able to use other variable types via calculator code, but you cannot read/know their value - if they have one. As a b-type variable is an input event, I doubt it has a value - it is what you input.... Then again, I know nothing about b type variables - maybe ask about those on the Asobo forums....

4 hours ago, Gabe_62 said:

Why can't I see B vars occur ?

As I said, they are input events, whatever that means, and there is no provision in the SDK to access or know about such variable types.

4 hours ago, Gabe_62 said:

The Black Square Caravan has a 3 position condition lever and I can switch between Cutoff and Low/Ground idle easily... but the High Idle is a B Var and I can only get it to show its activated (I e after manually changing it using the mouse) but cannot "initiate" the change using a button.

I think the b var is for control. as it is an input event. Try listing the available lvars to see if the state is held in one of those. As I don't have this aircraft, and it isn't listed in the MF presets, I can't really help with this.

4 hours ago, Gabe_62 said:

Why are things so complicated  ?

Ask Asobo / MSFS - it has been very difficult for us 3rd party developers to try and provide what we can with the APIs that they provide....

John