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Hello! I was wondering if I was missing something within Mobifllight or maybe I was confused

I have a 4 dof motion sim and I am trying to do something similar to this (see below youtube link) using the FSUIPC presets within mobiflight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvMsWrviaaY

I have the landing lights working fine, I would like to know if the strobe sequence for the Strobe and beacon can be done or if one would need to use transistors to obtain a "flickering effect"?

Thanks in advance for any assistance or clarification

Hi caddyboy,

welcome to MobiFlight!

The lights (beacon, strobes etc) and their flashing frequencies are mostly hard coded within the aircraft.
Some aircraft can be manipulated via the aircraft.cfg. There is a section [LIGHTS]. Here you can change the values or the filenames which you can find in the sim's EFFECTS-Folder.
What is not possible is to change the presentation of the lights via MobiFlight or FSUIPC.

Hi Stephan,

Thank you for the response! If i understand you correctly, when we configure the LED to the Strobe light output within MobiFlight, the flickering sequence is passed to the LED? If so, i must be doing something wrong because they are not flickering even though they are flickering in the sim. The same would apply for the beacon light, it does not flicker.

Thanks in advance for your response!

Fred

Hi Fred,

no, a LEd is an output from the simulator so it is a result by another action i.e. an switch. A switch is an input for the simulator.
So you have to distinguish betwenn an input and an output. This are two different things.

If you move the switch for the strobe light you use an EventID to tell the sim that a switch has changed. The sim reacts and set the strobes from off to on.
The flickering sequence of the strobes can only be influenced by the aircraft.cfg or the corresponding effect file. If you want to transfer the strobe frequency to a Mobiflight LED, that is not possible because the simulator does not provide an offset for it. It's the same for the beacon.

MobiFlight is unable to generate flashing frequencies for LEDs. For what? They are set in the simulator.
If you want to set LEDs for you outside of the simulator that emulate that, you can do that on your own outside the simulator. There's no need to turn on the strobes or the beacon via MobiFlight.

Hi

I not understand your intentions..... Maby you can explane us with a example WHAT you exactly need.

In a Aircraft ( in all i know) there is no indication LED ( Annunciator) that show us if Beakon, Landing etc. is ON or OFF ..... Simply cause you SEE it when you look outside.
OR you see it in case of Switch Position .

If you like to build it ( whatever it not exist in Sim or real) it is possible to read Out from Sim what System is ON or OFF .... So pretty sure also every Light .
BUT Nobody will use here a flickering Light ( that confuse the Pilot) In that Case you will need a stationary LED ( Green e.g.) that is ON aslong Light is ON and OFF if Light is also OFF.

If ou finaly like to build a flickering light you can mount outside of your Simulator Cockpit so you see in the walls of our room for example the Red Beakon blinking..... Then Stephan is right.... Here you not need a connection to Sim.... Here you can buy a simple blinking Red Light that is controlled by the Switch you will use for Beacon .... Then your switch controll YOUR light and optional also the Sim .

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