I tried the Honeycomb configurator program and made a start configuring the Bravo for use with the 172 ... but found the program not to be very user friendly
Also, although I did not do extensive testing, it seemed that it made my P3D installation somewhat unstable. About half of the time I switched to the 172 aircraft, P3D froze up on me and I could restart everything (which takes a while when you have true earth scenery). Since I had no trouble before that I suspect it is caused by the configurator software.
I also looked at SPAD.next but could not find out how I could control the LEDs with it (and that was/is my main goal).
So in the end, and since I am using FSUIPC anyway, I decided to write a lua script to support the Bravo with the C172. It's still a work very much in progress and at the moment only the following is supported:
- Annunciator lights
- Support for Bravo buttons > 32 (which fsuipc doesn't have by default)
- Master Caution light is on as long as the oil temperature (L:Eng1_OilTemp) < 38 (degrees celcius)
- Master Warning light is on when either the oil temperature > 118 (degrees celcius), the oil pressure (L:Eng1_OilPressure) > 115 (psi) or CHT (L:Eng1_CHT) > 232 (degrees celcius)
In case there are other mortals out there who are interested in my humble attempts I am sharing my work on github. However be advised on the following:
- I think in fsuipc lua only works when you have a registered version of fsuipc.
- I only tested the script with FSUIPC (6) in Prepar3D V5.1 HF1. If you use other versions of fsuipc or the flight simulator platform you should see for yourself if it works or not
I hope that perhaps others than I have fun with it also