PMDG737 - Assign jog dial for panel brightness

[Shawn Moon]

I have couple extra jog shuttle dial,  I like to assign those for Panel brightnetss control for pmdg737. 

I went to    Axes Assignments  -> Rescan (to find right dial) -> select for preset (Mark)

There are couple of Bright Dec or Bright Inc preset which is working partially for designated key mapping.  However I was not able to file Brightnetss "AXIS" so that I can control the brightnetss with physical jog shuttle.    Do we have solution for this such as....

 

When value is increased ---    send " Panel Bright Inc" command

When value is decreased ---    send " Panel Bright Dec" command

 

 

Edited April 21, 2023 by Shawn Moon
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[John Dowson]

The 737 panel brightness presets use the PMDG SDK custom controls via the Rotor Brake control - and there are several of these. Can you let me know the exact names of the presets you are using please?

3 hours ago, Shawn Moon said:

When value is increased ---    send " Panel Bright Inc" command

When value is decreased ---    send " Panel Bright Dec" command

You can use the right hand side in the axis assignment panel to send the inc/dec presets when you enter axis ranges, with up to 10 ranges, so you could set 5 ranges for inc, and 5 for dec, with the control/preset being sent on repeat in the outer ranges. That may work ok - so please try that first.

It may also be possible to set this up as a proper axis by assigning the dial to an FSUIPC offset, and then having a lua script monitor that offset and send a custom control (instead of a Rotor Brake mouse control), but I am not 100% sure on this. If you let me know what presets you are currently using for the panel brightness inc/dec, I will see what offsets this changes, get the max/min values and see if I can create a lua script that then calibrates the axis offset value to this range and sends the custom control to change it. I won't have time to look into this for at least a couple of days though...

John