All - Old topic, but have found AFC_Bridge needs to be in Community Folder for lights to work. All mine do, wish the knobs both left and right had lights on them.
To be sure it worked, I did run the .exe once, and then all worked, putting in CF makes lights work. The “better bravo lights” below sounds interesting, so I will follow how it works for him. Not unhappy with Honeycomb’s approach, would be nice if error lights came up red.
ok I ll try again with AFC bridge
Did a little reading on “Better Bravo Lights” over at the temple of flightsim.to. This looks way better than the stock “Bridge” program. You can adjust parameters too. I’m going to be giving this one a whirl, 'cause almost without fail I forget to start the bridge at the hangar screen. :\
Properly installed, there is no need to run the .exe file manually. The .exe file is an installer, not an application.
Whazzat then? It’s not the installer.
ok thanks. I ll try few more things out, also bravo better lights. let s see. I let you know.
Hope you will find this funny, my gear lights work fine, no other one does…
Of course the gear lights worked when flying with a plane with a retractable gear…
Hello Nikki462,
I’ll try to keep this as short as I can.
Honeycomb Bravo quad works, but no annuciator, AP, or gear lights. Tried to update the drivers, and Bravo quit working in MSFS 2020 and X-Plane 10. MSFS didn’t see Bravo at all in Controls anymore. X-Plane did, but Bravo needed calibration. Bravo then worked in MSFS.
I’ve read threads about something I think was called Honeycomb Control Bridge needing to show up in Task Manager, but it does not. Neither does AFC_Bridge. Not sure what path the exe.xml should be executed from. I moved MSFS to my secondary SSD for space a couple of months ago and it worked fine, but still left artifacts of itself on the boot SSD. I somehow now have multiple exe.xml and exe.xml_backup files on both drives. Also, MSFS Update shows AFC_Bridge ready to install, but pops up “Waiting” when I try and never installs.
I appreciate any insights you might have.
@HortyTundra2362 here 'ya go.
Works right out of the box and replaces that AFC_Bridge thingy. PLUS, if you want to get all fancy you can configure different settings (for things like oil pressure / fuel pressure) for different aircraft!
Great link; thank you. Never would found that. I’m going to give it a try this weekend.
You’re most welcome! This whole MSFS thing is a success if we help each other out when we can.
If I recall correctly, the BetterBravoLights install takes care of the Honeycomb “Bridge” so you don’t have to worry about it.
I finally had to replace the throttle as it was a real technical failure. In the meantime I use other throttles and panel switches from Logitech. And sorry for my late replay to you.
I just bought the bravo and had the same issue (could not get lights to work).
I tracked it down to an error in how it added itself to the exe.xml file.
Although the file location was correct, it broke the xml.
The tail end of the file looked like this:
<Launch.Addon>
<Name>FenixA320</Name>
<Disabled>False</Disabled>
<Path>D:\Program Files\FenixSim A320\deps\FenixBootstrapper.exe</Path>
<Launch.Addon>
<Name>AFCBridge</Name>
<Disabled>False</Disabled>
<Path>D:\MSFS Packages\community\AFC_Bridge\bin\AFC_Bridge.exe</Path>
</Launch.Addon>
This is missing the closing </Launch.Addon> tag for the FenixBootstrapper, so anything after this point in the file will be ignored. Therefore the AFC_Bridge is never loaded automatically by MSFS.
Your version of the file may be different, depending what addons have been added, you should chack that the addon before the AFC_Bridge in the exe.xml file has it closing tag in place. Edit the file to put the missing tag back in like so:
<Launch.Addon>
<Name>FenixA320</Name>
<Disabled>False</Disabled>
<Path>D:\Program Files\FenixSim A320\deps\FenixBootstrapper.exe</Path>
</Launch.Addon>
<Launch.Addon>
<Name>AFCBridge</Name>
<Disabled>False</Disabled>
<Path>D:\MSFS Packages\community\AFC_Bridge\bin\AFC_Bridge.exe</Path>
</Launch.Addon>
Note the additional </Launch.Addon> tag at the end of the FenixBootstrapper section.
Also note that I’m using a non-standard location for my community folder.
Hope this helps some people.
Cheers
Mike
Thanks Mike!! I will give this a go on mine! Appreciate the help!!
Nicole
This is only the folder if you are running a default install of the Microsoft store version, if it is steam version, it will be where you set it to go at install.
Is this still an issue? I set up my new throttle today and cant get the lights to work.
See Latka’s post Apr. 5.
yeah i have read the thread and tried the solutions. I’m running the latest beta of msfs.
Ah, well I don’t know about it running under current Beta.
Does anyone have a fix for this?
I’m always having to run the .exe file manually after starting the sim. It’s a very annoying thing to have to do when it should work automatically