-Ice's Falcon BMS Helios Profile Updated… Again!
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Hi Ice!
I finally got both YAME and Helios working together, I’ve tested all the buttons and they work perfectly but the landing gear lever does not work for me.
I’ve gone to BMS setup and moved the landing gear to test if it produced the desired button but it didn’t so I configured it in the BMS keyfile but still nothing on flight…
Any idea what’s happening?
Thanks. Regards
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I’m using YAME 1.2 I think. I didn’t update to the hot fix yet I guess. My bad.
Can’t do anything about it for several days though. I’ll try taking a look at it when I get home and seeing what I can figure out.
You can certainly try setting up the gauges yourself and opening my xml in a text editor so you can use it as a reference for where everything goes. Would be a little tedious but it would work.
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Just in case anyone had a problem with mine (Ice, I’m sorry but I thought he was talking to me), I installed YAME 1.21 and my layout works fine with it.
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the landing gear lever does not work for me.
Not sure what’s going on here but it’s working on my system for sure. Just tested again now. Besides, if the LG lever were not working, it’d be an issue straight away I would suggest re-downloading my .key file just to be sure you have the correct, original one.
Just in case anyone had a problem with mine (Ice, I’m sorry but I thought he was talking to me), I installed YAME 1.21 and my layout works fine with it.
No need to apologize His original issue was because he was using the first YAME release version which is not compatible with 1.20. Any profile made in 1.20 should be compatible with 1.21.
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Not sure what’s going on here but it’s working on my system for sure. Just tested again now. Besides, if the LG lever were not working, it’d be an issue straight away I would suggest re-downloading my .key file just to be sure you have the correct, original one.
Downloaded it again from here: http://www.mediafire.com/file/k85jg9eek97h0m9/BMS±+FPM+by±Ice.key but still doesn’t work…
If i change it in Falcon with the mouse it does move in Helios, but It doesn’t do anything when I click on the touch screen (I mean the lever moves but It doesn’t produce any effect)…
I’ve checked the profile and the callbacks seem to be configured ok…
Regards.
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Hmmm… not sure what to tell you. Did you fiddle with my Helios profile? Maybe download a new copy of my Helios profile and see if that works? Are you using a TM WH HOTAS? Does the FLAPS switch work with putting the gear up/down?
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ICE
I have taken the liberty of borrowing Rogue’s method of having 3 profiles in one. The switch in the combined console panel with a red background was taken from Rogue’s profile. Thank you Rogue. However, instead of using his key commands, I used your method #2 from your video tutorial. Most of the profile works, but I have issues with all of the radio volume dials. I guess I will have to do that manually. I couldn’t figure out how to label the red panel.Down is cold start
middle is hot start
up is air startThis is still in the experimental stages, but I thought you would like to see what some of your students are doing with Helios.
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Hmmm… not sure what to tell you. Did you fiddle with my Helios profile? Maybe download a new copy of my Helios profile and see if that works? Are you using a TM WH HOTAS? Does the FLAPS switch work with putting the gear up/down?
Looks like the AFGearUp or AFGearDown callbacks doesn’t work for me… I’ve put the SIMCATI and SIMCATIII callbacks just for testing in the landing gear lever and and they do work fine, can I send a keystroke instead of a callback?
Regards.
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The switch to control SEQ/RET Up and Down is VERY inconstant. Any tips?
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-Ice. Thanks for the great Profile. Still need to tweak a few things but getting there
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Downloaded it again from here: http://www.mediafire.com/file/k85jg9eek97h0m9/BMS±+FPM+by±Ice.key but still doesn’t work]
Regards.
Greyfox, I just tried the link you listed, and it seems the date of that file was from March 14th of 2017. An older version.
Try this link
http://ihpff4bms.blogspot.co.uk/2017/09/v421s-release.html
and in the RIGHT frame make sure you have SEPTEMBER selected. You’ll find v4.21s there.
I’ve found that if you just click on the link in post #239 you MAY end up viewing the blog from the MARCH entries. I suspect it will do this for many first time visitors of Ice’s blog.
Fingers crossed
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Thanks Trilogysc, I’ve already solved it.
I finally assigned keys ‘s’ and ‘d’ to the landing gear lever and sent the keystrokes with helios, so that one is ok now, but…
Remember my old problem with the masking???!!! Well, I’ve discovered something pretty astonishing, when I set the window width to 1919 pixels instead of 1920 and leave the height at 1080, it does the masking!
I have the screen resolution set in 1920x1080, so I guess It’s not a configuration problem… I’ll report it in the YAME thread to see if the guys there can figure out what’s happening…
Best regards.
edit: ok, works only if I open YAME go to the windows tab and save the resolution, then it masks, but if I save the new resolution in the layout file, close YAME, open it again and try to run without going to the windows tab and setting the resolution again it doesn’t…
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This is still in the experimental stages, but I thought you would like to see what some of your students are doing with Helios.
Thanks sobe! Feel free indeed to modify the profile as you want/need, that is how the profile grows! Like I said, I credit a lot to weepop for keeping my profile alive and for challenging me to update my profile again. This “feature” is in the plans for my future updates but unfortunately I currently don’t have the time or brainpower to allocate to this, so mod the profile as you want and enjoy it!
I also LOL at the “students” reference. We are all students!
Looks like the AFGearUp or AFGearDown callbacks doesn’t work for me… I’ve put the SIMCATI and SIMCATIII callbacks just for testing in the landing gear lever and and they do work fine, can I send a keystroke instead of a callback?
These are mapped to CTRL ALT = for Up and SHIFT CTRL ALT = for Down. Not sure why they don’t work for you…. are you on a QWERTY keyboard or AZERTY?
I finally assigned keys ‘s’ and ‘d’ to the landing gear lever and sent the keystrokes with helios, so that one is ok now, but…
I really don’t recommend doing this… obviously the S and D keys were assigned to something else. What did you do with those originally assigned there?
Remember my old problem with the masking???!!! Well, I’ve discovered something pretty astonishing, when I set the window width to 1919 pixels instead of 1920 and leave the height at 1080, it does the masking!
I have the screen resolution set in 1920x1080, so I guess It’s not a configuration problem… I’ll report it in the YAME thread to see if the guys there can figure out what’s happening…
That is indeed a very weird issue. However, since the profile does not extend all the way to the last pixel of your screen, you can set the window to be 1919x1080 and get a mask and still get everything the way they should look.
edit: ok, works only if I open YAME go to the windows tab and save the resolution, then it masks, but if I save the new resolution in the layout file, close YAME, open it again and try to run without going to the windows tab and setting the resolution again it doesn’t…
Looks like you’re not saving your changes to a new profile so the profile “resets” itself when you start up YAME.
The switch to control SEQ/RET Up and Down is VERY inconstant. Any tips?
Not really sure what you mean by “inconstant.” You are meant to touch above or below or to either side of the dobber to activate it correctly and thus, a bigger screen helps by giving you a bigger touch area. I will agree that it can be inaccurate sometimes when you don’t touch exactly on the right area, but I would not say “VERY” and also the issue is not on the switch.
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-Ice. Thanks for the great Profile. Still need to tweak a few things but getting there
Totally not jealous at all!! Totally. Not. Jealous.
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Hi Ice, thanks.
I’m using QWERTY.
Keys ‘s’ and ‘d’ weren’t assigned for something else so I used them, I tested before at the keyfile screen.
Regarding the problem with YAME I do save it, I opened the xml file with notepad too and the changes saved. I posted in the YAME thread and it looks like it’s an issue with YAME. I’ll record a video for the YAME team so they can see what’s happening…
Best regards
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S and D should be assigned… you may not be using my true .key file… or so I thought. Seems like my current .key file has been slightly altered compared to the one currently available.
Try that one and see if the gear lever issue resolves itself. To everyone else, please update to v1.7 .key file as well and see if there are any issues. As the post explains, MAN RANGE and MFD GAIN callbacks were added/changed and the Coolie Switch an Radio Switch changes from this post were implemented as well. I really should’ve added the .key file to that post, this has now been rectified.
Apologies for the oversight!
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Regarding the problem with YAME I do save it, I opened the xml file with notepad too and the changes saved. I posted in the YAME thread and it looks like it’s an issue with YAME. I’ll record a video for the YAME team so they can see what’s happening…
As you said, if you change the window (CLIENT -> WINDOWS -> RIGHT SCREEN) to be 1919 width and 1080 height and it does make a masking for you, then you can just click SAVE on that tab, go to CLIENT -> WINDOWS -> MISC and click SAVE LAYOUT and name it something unique to you and use that.
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Ice
I took your advice and rolled back the Win10 recent update and now YAME works fine. -
ICE
I seem to be having an issue with the caution panel not showing up. When I press the pilot fault panel, only a blank hole appears where the caution panel should appear. In YAME, I notice that the caution panel is checked, type default, visible is checked and the on window drop down has CPD MAP SCREEN listed and not RIGHT SCreen. The coordinates are 1244, 838, 302 and 222. What am I doing wrong? -
Interesting… seems to be the case for me too. Nothing to worry about, this happens with YAME occassionally. Check that your CAUTION PANEL is set to RIGHT SCREEN… mine was set to CPD MAP SCREEN too. Set it to RIGHT SCREEN and be sure to save your changes.