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nguyenquyhy / Flight-Tracker-StreamDeck

A Stream Deck plugin to interact with Microsoft Flight Simulation
https://flightsim.to/file/3178/flight-tracker-streamdeck-plugin
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Custom icons are not working #418

Open keem85 opened 10 months ago

keem85 commented 10 months ago

Below are some useful information that you can include to help with troubleshooting the issue:

nguyenquyhy commented 10 months ago

May I know what aircraft and what Feedback value you are using?

keem85 commented 10 months ago

May I know what aircraft and what Feedback value you are using?

What is a feedback value? I have no feedback value in the box.. I'm not using any spesific aircraft per se, since this happens on any aircraft/buttons... but in this case I am setting up "ADF1_RADIO_SWAP" to work as AP heading hold for the HPG 145. I am just trying to set up the generic toggle button on my Stream Deck+, and it doesn't want to change pictures from ON-picture to OFF-picture fb1 .

I have also read the manual, and I don't understand what many of the values does, so I have only focused on the simple toggle-value and the on/off picures (which aren't working)

nguyenquyhy commented 10 months ago

You need to provide Feedback value so the plugin know what the current state is (in order to show the ON/OFF images accordingly).

I don't use the 145 so I don't really understand this I am setting up "ADF1_RADIO_SWAP" to work as AP heading hold for the HPG 145, but I think you will need to put a SimConnect or L-Var into feedback value that indicates the current AP heading hold status. For example, the SimConnect value for default aircraft is AUTOPILOT HEADING LOCK. You can try to put that into Feedback value, but I'm not sure if that will work for HPG aircraft as HPG has some custom systems.

keem85 commented 10 months ago

You need to provide Feedback value so the plugin know what the current state is (in order to show the ON/OFF images accordingly).

I don't use the 145 so I don't really understand this I am setting up "ADF1_RADIO_SWAP" to work as AP heading hold for the HPG 145, but I think you will need to put a SimConnect or L-Var into feedback value that indicates the current AP heading hold status. For example, the SimConnect value for default aircraft is AUTOPILOT HEADING LOCK. You can try to put that into Feedback value, but I'm not sure if that will work for HPG aircraft as HPG has some custom systems.

Ahaa, I see. So this is not actually a bug, which I originally thought, but the lack of "feedback value" ? Do you have a video that explains to me what a "feedback value" is, or "parameters"? Because I've read the documents, and I don't fully understand what these are, and where to find them. Might be my english cutting short when it comes to simple terminology, but perhaps an eli5 video would help me understand this. I'm not sure what SimConnect or L-Var is either, so this Flight Tracker really seem to be for very advanced users?

On a seperate note, the H145 uses a third party software, since MSFS bindings doesn't exist for this aircraft. So it has it's internal bindings, and we assign obscure MSFS bindings (that are not otherwise used) in to this program, as a sort of a "proxy" or what I should call it.

nguyenquyhy commented 10 months ago

Do you have a video that explains to me what a "feedback value" is, or "parameters"?

I don't have any, but if you search on YouTube for flight tracker stream deck plugin, you should find a few.

this Flight Tracker really seem to be for very advanced users?

I try to cater for both new and more adept MSFS users with preset and generic buttons.

I'm not sure what SimConnect or L-Var is either

Essentially, in order for a button to show ON/OFF states, it needs to be able to read the corresponding values from the sim. There are 2 types of values that the plugin can handle:

keem85 commented 10 months ago

Do you have a video that explains to me what a "feedback value" is, or "parameters"?

I don't have any, but if you search on YouTube for flight tracker stream deck plugin, you should find a few.

this Flight Tracker really seem to be for very advanced users?

I try to cater for both new and more adept MSFS users with preset and generic buttons.

  • Preset buttons are ones where users can simply drag, drop and choose some settings for specific aircraft functionalities.
  • Generic buttons are ones where users can do a lot more by choosing what happen when a button is pressed/held and what value a button should indicate. Generic buttons do require a bit more understanding on the internal of MSFS, which I will try to explain below.

I'm not sure what SimConnect or L-Var is either

Essentially, in order for a button to show ON/OFF states, it needs to be able to read the corresponding values from the sim. There are 2 types of values that the plugin can handle:

  • SimConnect variables: Those are the values that are exposed by default aircraft systems. You can find them here: https://docs.flightsimulator.com/html/Programming_Tools/SimVars/Simulation_Variables.htm. For example, for your case you can try to use AUTOPILOT HEADING LOCK to get the current state of AP Heading for many aircraft.
  • L-Var: Those are internal values that each aircraft creates, so there is no master list for L-Var. You will have to find this list from the aircraft developer, or use more advanced tool like FSUIPC to extract the list.

Thank you for taking time to write this. I will dig more into this, based on this info. Thank you. Sorry I mistakenly marked this as a bug

nguyenquyhy commented 10 months ago

You can also checkout this discussion for some example profiles and see how the buttons are setup: https://github.com/nguyenquyhy/Flight-Tracker-StreamDeck/discussions/128

Or you can also try to find some pre-built profiles on FlightSim.to such as this one https://flightsim.to/file/13562/stream-deck-3x15-for-flight-simulator-flight-tracker-free-a320-for-the-time-being