Thank you Sebastian, Awesome product and tutorial. Gonna start building my own 737 cockpit en i start with the landing gear. This because i have to learn how to wire and solder. This tutorial is heavenly and a great help. Thank you very much.
This kind of video makes mobiflight the best soft to go through this homemade cockpit journey. Thank you again. Regards to the staff. I cant wait to get back to MFS. Keep going, keep it doing this stuff, instrument by instrument and Mobiflight will be the king soft. long live to Mobiflight.
Good night people! I'm trying to configure a key to activate the Landing Gear of the FBW A320, but I'm not finding the variable in Mobiflight, I found it for the Fenix but not for the FBW. Could anyone give me some help? Thanks.
I’m trying to illuminate a “gear in transition” light. My thought is to associate it with the Left gear light (it is consistently the last of the three gears to extend, in the JustFlight Piper Arrow), and set it to “1” when the gear is extended anywhere between 1 and 99 percent… but I don’t know how to input that in the conditions… any help?
Nice video, thanks a lot. I am looking for a command in mobiflight to make the annunicator lights work with a LED of A/P P/RST button in a PMDG B737. The found command for pmdg B737 (Avionics: PMDG B737 A/P P/Rst) does not light up the led. The command for the button itself (Avionics: PMDG B737 A/P P/RST Button) does work... The same goes for A/T and FMC....Any idea?? Thanks in advance for a reply.. 🙂
Hi! I would like to start by saying what a great software MobiFlight is. At the end of the video when you switch off Battery Master the Left Green doesn't turn off and output value still remains 1. On the other hand Nose Green light that uses transformation instead of precondition tuns off and its value is 0 as expected. I've noticed that personally when i built my gear and annunciator panels with your awesome software. Maybe transformation is a better way to go(?). It seems like if the precondition applies after the LED comes on it doesn't affect its state.
Omg - you’re right! Thanks for the hint - why did I not notice that while filming. I forgot to add the opposite config item. The one that turns it off when the opposite precondition is satisfied. Oops.
Hey, this Mobiflight is awesome and your explanations are super simple. I have a question, is it possible to use the logitech power panel, radio panel and multi panel by reconfiguring in mobi ? Thanks Ian
Thanks for the feedback - i wanted to make it a shorter video and it still ended up being 30 mins :/
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@@MobiFlight Sebastian, don't mind the length, it is the content what matters. And that is perfect for the beginners level, cause it is targeting a concrete, understandable problem and showing how easy that problem can be solved using MobiFlight. If you want to build an A320 FCU, you need to know the foundation first and that tutorial shows many aspects of mobiflight you can make good use of later on. Thumbs up, I'd like to see more of these little problem oriented videos demonstrating various aspects of MobiFlight.
Cool… I am making the whole cockpit with MobiFlight. Thank you. Just a side note, in the tutorial, if I am correct, try lower the gear and turn the master switch off, the green LED will not turn off because the precondition does not allow the green led line executed. Am I wrong?? Thank you again.
writing firmware to the arduino needs a confirmation box, also instructions to get it working on XPlane 11 are a bit confusing, i had to resort to using youtube videos, but it works, my leds are going on and off with the landing gear movement :)
Porque no meu MF o Sim status não fica verde, faço tudo certo testo o led parking funciona, mas quando clico em RUN aparece um alerta vermelho do lado esquerdo e diz que o sim conect não está conectado
Hi Sebastian, I'm starting to build an A320 flybywire cockpit and this video helped me a lot to increase the realism by keeping the landing gear lights off while the plane is cold and dark. I would be grateful if you could explain to me if it is possible or not, to keep the LCD screen of the autopilot blank while the batteries are off.
For the LCD Screen you can try to power the backlight via an Arduino pin. I am doing that and it works for me. But it draws some current and sometimes the pin can't keep it on.
@@MobiFlight wow, that's so cool! Thank you very much for the quick response! Will install and donate. Thank you for all your efforts on the program. This makes everything so easy
Hi Sebastian, is it possible to have an input triggered only when multiple pins are showing 5V? So I have a 5 way guitar switch and I plan to use it as a landing gear lever. The switch uses 3 input pins and the positions can reflect On, off, off On, on, off Off, on, off Off, on, on Off, off, on But obviously uses only 3 pins.. Is there a way to make mobiflight show this as 5 possible positions? Did you make a video on this already? Kind ones, Doug
you can try with preconditions and using mobiflight variables to evaluate the state. It's a bit laborious but it an be done. Unfortunately for this special use case there is no video
@@MobiFlight yes ok I'll give it a go yes, so Normally everyone will use 1 input per pin and if you run out of pins you must multiplex it out? Or use a bigger board. There's no way to do any kind of multi pin matrix logic before you get to the pin assignment. or even virtual pins to allow a more complex system from a single board. Perhaps there's a huge limitation that I don't know about yet, but it seems that would be very useful. Or is everyone doing it by like slaving more boards or something. I'm very new to this so forgive my stupid question 🙏🏻
@@BassontheRoof just to be clear: MobiFlight supports i/o expanders like shift registers and multiplexers - you can use them, but we typically recommend to add another board to your setup because the circuits with i/o expanders are more difficult to set up.
Hi Sebastian. I have written many times to the Mobiflight Discord and nothing that I get answers, I am making the audio panel of the G1000, the small one in the middle and there are some presets that I cannot get.
Hello, I'm new with mobiflight and I pretend to buy an arduido board to make a landing gear lever, following your tutorial. My question is: for the resistor chosen, is there any rule? It depends on the led light? Thanks
Hi Sebastian, thanks for the awesome content ! Collateral question : what software do you use to represent the arduino board and all the wiring ? (would be very useful to preset some prototype I think).
Nice video! But why do all three lights come on when you are just testing one? For example when you test LdgGear Left Red, all three LEDs light up. ???
Nice video and it works well with a toggle switch for landing gear.. However, I'm trying to use momentary switches for autopilot switches and the setup don't work well for that as it wants to turn on, then off. Unfortunately there's not many good videos for mobiflight recent version - just some kid babbling stupidity. I did eventually work it out, with a momentary switch you need an expression in more options "if ($= [off value], [on value], [off value])". This will allow use of a momentary switch for on/off functionality.
Nice and instructive video - BUT ... I think you're too fast when choosing the different option ! Do you have a video for connecting a ROTARY ENCODER ? I want to use such a thing instead of a potentiometer because of the UN-stability (dirt on the resistor surface!)
Hi Manfred! no worries!!! $ simply always corresponds to the current value of the config, eg when you read a simvar like the landing gear you reference the value, eg 100 for gear down by $. And you can also transform this value. So if you write $*10 then the dollar symbol will be replaced by the current value and then the formula is evaluated, e.g. 100*10
Thank you Sebastian,
Awesome product and tutorial. Gonna start building my own 737 cockpit en i start with the landing gear. This because i have to learn how to wire and solder.
This tutorial is heavenly and a great help. Thank you very much.
keep us posted on your progress
This kind of video makes mobiflight the best soft to go through this homemade cockpit journey. Thank you again. Regards to the staff. I cant wait to get back to MFS. Keep going, keep it doing this stuff, instrument by instrument and Mobiflight will be the king soft. long live to Mobiflight.
thanks for your feedback! that's really encouraging!!!
Thanks Sebastian. I like your pace of delivery, it makes following the setup so much easier.
thanks for this great feedback!
Awesome. Rebuilding my cockpit atm and will switch to Mobiflight. Does all gear have the same percentage during transit ?
Thanks! Some things in Mobiflight are pretty confusing, but this was super clear! (And the audio is great, also!)
i have put a lot of effort into figuring out how to take care of the audio. I am happy that it is working now.
Good night people!
I'm trying to configure a key to activate the Landing Gear of the FBW A320, but I'm not finding the variable in Mobiflight, I found it for the Fenix but not for the FBW.
Could anyone give me some help?
Thanks.
I’m trying to illuminate a “gear in transition” light. My thought is to associate it with the Left gear light (it is consistently the last of the three gears to extend, in the JustFlight Piper Arrow), and set it to “1” when the gear is extended anywhere between 1 and 99 percent… but I don’t know how to input that in the conditions… any help?
Nice video, thanks a lot.
I am looking for a command in mobiflight to make the annunicator lights work with a LED of A/P P/RST button in a PMDG B737. The found command for pmdg B737 (Avionics: PMDG B737 A/P P/Rst) does not light up the led. The command for the button itself (Avionics: PMDG B737 A/P P/RST Button) does work... The same goes for A/T and FMC....Any idea?? Thanks in advance for a reply.. 🙂
Hi! I would like to start by saying what a great software MobiFlight is. At the end of the video when you switch off Battery Master the Left Green doesn't turn off and output value still remains 1. On the other hand Nose Green light that uses transformation instead of precondition tuns off and its value is 0 as expected. I've noticed that personally when i built my gear and annunciator panels with your awesome software. Maybe transformation is a better way to go(?). It seems like if the precondition applies after the LED comes on it doesn't affect its state.
Omg - you’re right! Thanks for the hint - why did I not notice that while filming. I forgot to add the opposite config item. The one that turns it off when the opposite precondition is satisfied. Oops.
I posted a new video to explain how to fix the mistake
Excelente video
NIce work. I will use it on an A230 LG panel soon
Hi.. Thanks for video i have a mcp for 737 and i want to start it with battery on... Can i use the same system of landing gear
yes.
I hope in the upcoming time fbw will take the landinggear value to configurate it to my homecockpit
Hey, this Mobiflight is awesome and your explanations are super simple.
I have a question, is it possible to use the logitech power panel, radio panel and multi panel by reconfiguring in mobi ?
Thanks Ian
not yet - i am working on it
I have a problem with my landing gear n ligh 737, any video yo know ???
Excellent little tutorial!
Thanks for the feedback - i wanted to make it a shorter video and it still ended up being 30 mins :/
@@MobiFlight Sebastian, don't mind the length, it is the content what matters. And that is perfect for the beginners level, cause it is targeting a concrete, understandable problem and showing how easy that problem can be solved using MobiFlight. If you want to build an A320 FCU, you need to know the foundation first and that tutorial shows many aspects of mobiflight you can make good use of later on. Thumbs up, I'd like to see more of these little problem oriented videos demonstrating various aspects of MobiFlight.
Cool… I am making the whole cockpit with MobiFlight. Thank you.
Just a side note, in the tutorial, if I am correct, try lower the gear and turn the master switch off, the green LED will not turn off because the precondition does not allow the green led line executed. Am I wrong?? Thank you again.
yeah - you're right - i forgot to show the second config with the opposite precondition that turns the light off
@@MobiFlight you are the best !
How can you connect "ONLY" the indicator lights without the switch to the board. I have the switch on another arduino.
writing firmware to the arduino needs a confirmation box, also instructions to get it working on XPlane 11 are a bit confusing, i had to resort to using youtube videos, but it works, my leds are going on and off with the landing gear movement :)
it works though, very impressive tool :)
mobiflight looks awesome, looks like i have something to build this weekend :)
Porque no meu MF o Sim status não fica verde, faço tudo certo testo o led parking funciona, mas quando clico em RUN aparece um alerta vermelho do lado esquerdo e diz que o sim conect não está conectado
thanks for the great innovention.
youre welcome!
Hi Sebastian, I'm starting to build an A320 flybywire cockpit and this video helped me a lot to increase the realism by keeping the landing gear lights off while the plane is cold and dark. I would be grateful if you could explain to me if it is possible or not, to keep the LCD screen of the autopilot blank while the batteries are off.
For the LCD Screen you can try to power the backlight via an Arduino pin. I am doing that and it works for me. But it draws some current and sometimes the pin can't keep it on.
Very nice ....... can´t wait to start using it!
Hope you enjoy it!
Do I need FSUIPC for this? I thought mobiflight cant do Outputs?
Thank you very much for the video and the whole program
no you don't need fsuipc for MSFS2020 - you still need it for P3D
@@MobiFlight wow, that's so cool! Thank you very much for the quick response!
Will install and donate. Thank you for all your efforts on the program. This makes everything so easy
@@mattwurst1339 thanks for your encouraging feedback
Hi I signed up on mobiflight and in Tutorial 1 LED it says you need FSUIPC. Talking about offsets...
Is that an old version?
@@mattwurst1339 yes. it's old. very old. I am recreating the videos at the moment
Great tutorial! Is it works the same way for PMDG 737?
there are specific PMDG eventids available. So that part is different
@@MobiFlight I found it and it works perfectly. Less than 6 minutes and all done! Donation on the way! Thank you :)
@@KotLata737 Thanks! I am happy you figured it out and thank you very much for your donation
Thank you. You are the best. I only have a doubt. How did you make this software?
i developed it over the course of a couple of years in my free time
Thanks for this tuto
You're welcome
Can you also make vlog landing gear n ligh for p3d v5 connect to prosim please, 🙏
i don't have prosim :(
Maybe you just make for p3d only, please 🙏
Hi Sebastian, is it possible to have an input triggered only when multiple pins are showing 5V?
So I have a 5 way guitar switch and I plan to use it as a landing gear lever.
The switch uses 3 input pins and the positions can reflect
On, off, off
On, on, off
Off, on, off
Off, on, on
Off, off, on
But obviously uses only 3 pins..
Is there a way to make mobiflight show this as 5 possible positions?
Did you make a video on this already?
Kind ones, Doug
you can try with preconditions and using mobiflight variables to evaluate the state. It's a bit laborious but it an be done. Unfortunately for this special use case there is no video
@@MobiFlight yes ok I'll give it a go yes, so Normally everyone will use 1 input per pin and if you run out of pins you must multiplex it out? Or use a bigger board. There's no way to do any kind of multi pin matrix logic before you get to the pin assignment. or even virtual pins to allow a more complex system from a single board. Perhaps there's a huge limitation that I don't know about yet, but it seems that would be very useful. Or is everyone doing it by like slaving more boards or something.
I'm very new to this so forgive my stupid question 🙏🏻
@BassontheRoof we recommend to use individual boards, i/o expanders are good for building custom pcb
@@MobiFlight ok, duly noted, that is definitely beyond my pay grade ha, thanks for your help
@@BassontheRoof just to be clear: MobiFlight supports i/o expanders like shift registers and multiplexers - you can use them, but we typically recommend to add another board to your setup because the circuits with i/o expanders are more difficult to set up.
Excellent! when one of COM/NAV with the displays 1602 :D
alright! you got it!!!
Hi Sebastian. I have written many times to the Mobiflight Discord and nothing that I get answers, I am making the audio panel of the G1000, the small one in the middle and there are some presets that I cannot get.
unfortunately some of the buttons and status lights are not fully available through simconnect
Hello, I'm new with mobiflight and I pretend to buy an arduido board to make a landing gear lever, following your tutorial. My question is: for the resistor chosen, is there any rule? It depends on the led light? Thanks
try one of the online led resistor calculators - anything around 200-300 should be ok
Hi Sebastian, thanks for the awesome content ! Collateral question : what software do you use to represent the arduino board and all the wiring ? (would be very useful to preset some prototype I think).
fritzing - but i believe it is not developed anymore.
thank you
you're welcome!
Nice video! But why do all three lights come on when you are just testing one? For example when you test LdgGear Left Red, all three LEDs light up. ???
That’s only some light bleed and is only that noticeable on the video, not in reality.
@@MobiFlight thank you. That's what I suspected, but I wanted to ask to make sure.
Hi! Can Mobiflight be used with X-Plane?
Yes, but the presets are more limited and custom presets are a bit more complicated - but you should give it a try!
Nice video and it works well with a toggle switch for landing gear..
However, I'm trying to use momentary switches for autopilot switches and the setup don't work well for that as it wants to turn on, then off.
Unfortunately there's not many good videos for mobiflight recent version - just some kid babbling stupidity.
I did eventually work it out, with a momentary switch you need an expression in more options "if ($= [off value], [on value], [off value])". This will allow use of a momentary switch for on/off functionality.
im glad you figured it out!
Nice and instructive video - BUT ... I think you're too fast when choosing the different option !
Do you have a video for connecting a ROTARY ENCODER ?
I want to use such a thing instead of a potentiometer because of the UN-stability (dirt on the resistor surface!)
thanks for the feedback - i will slow down next time - have you tried to turn down the playback speed - maybe that helps?
Spelling OCD relieved by a quick video cut... and sighhhhh. Time to pull up the soldering iron I haven't used in a decade.
I can’t get my indicator to jive with the amount of degree in flap that I have on the physical wing. It’s never the same. Grrrrr
you can use the interpolation table to fix thst
Work faster, yah mule yah ! 😅
😂
I followed everything until you used the $ in the else option. 🤯
Hi Manfred! no worries!!! $ simply always corresponds to the current value of the config, eg when you read a simvar like the landing gear you reference the value, eg 100 for gear down by $. And you can also transform this value. So if you write $*10 then the dollar symbol will be replaced by the current value and then the formula is evaluated, e.g. 100*10