LED lights on Honeycomb Bravo don’t work after Simupdate 13

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Hi all,

the topic title say it all. I had read in one of the beta forums that at least the landing gear indicators and some annunciator lights are working now but they don’t on my Xbox Series X.

Here is what happened:

Launched the sim yesterday, got an update notice and clicked „update”.
On the welcome screen I went to Profile → Content Manager and there 2 downloads were pending:
FS Premium and
FS DeLuxe

I let them complete and then selected the remaining packages marked „Update available” (13 packages, 6.06GB, mostly scenery).

It took more than an hour and some downloads looped back now and then (4.65/6.06…4.69/6.06…4.7/6.06 and then back to 4.65/6.06) but eventually it would sort itsself out and everything was complete.

I terminated the sim and checked the version in „manage game and add ons”: 1.34.16.0.

Restarted the sim, created a flight and when ready to taxi no lights on the Bravo were lit.

Terminated the sim again, restarted the Xbox, started the sim, created a flight, ready to taxi → no lights on the Bravo.
Did a traffic pattern, the Bonanza V35B flew as smooth as ever so everything seemed OK for me except for the LED indicators on the Bravo.

Do I miss anything essential here, a setting or something to make it work?
Has this feature been cancelled for SU13/Xbox?

Regards,
Frank

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Sorry I guess I don’t understand the problem.
Are you talking about the lights on the HC Bravo or taxi/landing lights on a plane?

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As the user is on XBOX (post tagged as well) this would not be an option.

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As far as I know the annunciator lights require a mod installed by the driver, which is PC only. (This could have changed, but that’s how I remember it working a year or two ago.)

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PC here. No lights on the Bravo either since SU13. Reinstall of the bridge does not resolve.

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Oh, is this a new problem? I don’t think I’ve ever had working lights on my Bravo since buying it three years ago.

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Hi all and thanks for responding.
@meh1951 „LED lights on Honeycomb Bravo” sorry, I don’t know how to put it any clearer :wink:
@Vibstronium Yes I know about this mod but as you say yourself: PC-only :face_with_diagonal_mouth:
@toasterovenX So it’s broken on PC as well? That’s bad news really!

The beta forum is not accessible any more but in the hardware section there were posts about this. One poster said that at least the landing gear indicators and one or two annunciator lights were working on one of the SU13-betas.

It would be nice if someone who knows facts could shed some light on this.

Regards,
Frank

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I wouldn’t say it’s “broken” on PC.

Mine work just fine, and if it was truly broken, the forums would be flooded. I don’t doubt there’s some one off’s, but this certainly doesn’t seem to be the norm.

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AFC_Bridge has not worked for me on PC for a while better-bravo-lights-lvar-module has been working for me on PC.
https://flightsim.to/file/21253/better-bravo-lights

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My Bravo lights have worked since day one (on PC) and worked last night, my first flight after the update. No LEDs at all tonight.

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Is it a specific aircraft? or any?

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For me it’s the Bonanza G36 (Improvement Project) . Haven’t tried anything else but I will try other aircraft later on today.

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So I’ve tried the:

Bonanza G36
Cessna 172
Cessna Grand Caravan 208B
Diamond DA60
Diamond DA40
TBM930
Baron G58

Not a glimmer of an LED; no AP selection illumination, no Annunciators, no LG.

So, c’mon MS/Asobo or whoever, you broke it, so now fix it or tell us what to do to restore the functionality - please, no, pretty please.

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I would suggest the following;

  1. Uninstall via Add/Remove Programs
  2. Ensure it is deleted from your Community folder
  3. Re-install
  4. Verify it is back in your Community Folder
  5. Verify you have the following in your exe.xml

<Launch.Addon>
AFCBridge
False
C:\Users\SkypilotYTS\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft Flight Simulator\Packages\community\AFC_Bridge\bin\AFC_Bridge.exe
</Launch.Addon>

  1. Verify the path is correct

Let me know how that goes.

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That has worked, you have my thanks. Not quite the same in the exe.xml path.

C:/User/owner/AppData/Local/Packages/Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe/LocalCache/Packages/Community/AFC_Bridge/bin/AFC_Bridge,exe (no back slash on my mini keyboard)

I only tried it on the Bonanza and DA62

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Can confirm the only lights that should be working at this time on the Honeycomb Bravo are:

  • Landing Gear
  • Parking

The others are not working and are logged as a bug internally.

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@Jummivana Thanks for this info. They don’t work on my combination of XBox X, Honeycomb Alpha XPC and Honeycomb Bravo though.

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My first check after implementing SkypilotYTS’ advice was a quick open up of the two aircraft C&D so not a careful confirmation by any means. Following notification from Jummivana I just ran the check again, but with a bit more care.

Diamond DA62 C&D: Battery ON

LG Lights: ON 3 Greens.
Annunciators: Low Oil Pressure; Vacuum; Parking All illuminated
AP Indications; IAS Selected - associated light ON
Hdg Mode Selected - associated light ON.

Bonanza G36 (IP) Battery ON Av Master ON

LG Lights ON 3 Greens
Annunciators: Low Oil Pressure; Vacuum; Low Fuel Pressure; Parking All illuminated.
AP Indications: IAS Selected - Associated Light - ON
Hdg Mode Selected - Associated Light - ON.
Fuel Pump on - Fuel Pressure annunciator - OFF

Engine started:
Annunciators: OFF except Parking. Released brake Parking OFF.

Clearly not quite as black and white as it may seem and maybe a discrepancy between PC and XBox

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Glad you got it sorted :slight_smile:

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These are the only lights that work on the Honeycomb Bravo when connected to the Xbox.