MP1 UFC displays stopped working

[markturner1960]

As title, my UFC is stuck with the placeholder LED pattern on all the display windows...have tried several restarts, still no joy.....everything else working fine - IE all the buttons etc. Not sure where to look for issues anyone got an idea? I did a DCS clean and repair earlier, do you think its changed a required file somewhere? 

[speed-of-heat]

Yes, tryvre running simapp Pro?

[MustangSally]

Go to the UFC in Simappro and click 'Turn off Display'....or something along those lines

[wizzyd]

DId you figure this out.  I seem to have the same issue out the box

[MustangSally]

1 hour ago, wizzyd said:

DId you figure this out.  I seem to have the same issue out the box

Did you do what I asked above?

[markturner1960]

no..... have run SAP, tried lights off, no difference.....Where does SAP interface with DCS to export the display data? I have looked in the export .lua, looks as it should.....the lights work so its obviously something stopping SAP & DCS communicating......

Have tried starting a ticket with WW, but the system is <profanity>e......100 characters only! 

Edited November 29, 2022 by markturner1960

[MustangSally]

Can you take a pic of the UFC and post here,

 

 

 

 

[markturner1960]

Sure, showing what? Lights on or off? 

[MustangSally]

Have you carried out a lua repair??

null

So you are saying that you can turn the lights on or off in Simappro but when in DCS you don't get any Digital read outs?

[MustangSally]

Also try resetting the UFC to default...
null

[markturner1960]

Yes, lights come on or off in SAP, I have tried setting it to default as well. I have not tried repairing the .lua, but which file is this, the monitor set up one? Or another one? As I made my own monitor file, as the SAP version did not work......

[wizzyd]

 I did the repair Lua thing last night and my UFC started working.  However I did not make my own Lua file like you did.  Now my DCS keeps crashing on me and will not load.  If I disconnect the MIP it loads up fine.  Connect the MIP and it crashes.  This is a headache so far

 

 

[markturner1960]

I had same issue which is why I made my own .lua file. see my initial troubles here: 

Maybe some tips there to help......I had to plug the screens direct to my PC rather than to a hub to get windows to accept the layout.

Dont know if its connected but everytime I start SAP, I get the error message about the settings not matching in options.lua......but nothing has changed. If I press apply, then next time it opens, same thing happens.....

BTW, the repair .lua option in settings just makes a new export.lua ( which is a pain, as it means any other apps like Tacview etc wont work) instead of checking and correcting if required, just the WW entry. The monitor set up .lu file is separate and nothing to do with this one. 

Does anyone know where the options.lua file is that SAP is referring to? This may be the culprit....but I dont know where it is....

Edited November 29, 2022 by markturner1960

[markturner1960]

Update.....the repair .lua seems to have sorted it. I dont know whats different, here are the old one and the new one, can someone see what the issue was? 

Export.lua Export_Backup_1669741243920.bklua

[prestonflying]

The difference between the two files is `dofile(lfs.writedir()..[[Scripts\Export_BEH_Motion_Cls.lua]])` which is present in your backup lua (the broken one prior to the repair) and missing from your repaired Export.lua. I believe the order of the lua scripts matter in Export.lua (something about the way global variables names are managed and shared across scripts).

If you add back `dofile(lfs.writedir()..[[Scripts\Export_BEH_Motion_Cls.lua]])` and you find your UFC no longer working perhaps try re-ordering the scripts and put Winwing's import at the bottom.

To answer your above question where SAP and DCS talk, the answer is the wwtExport.lua. SAP detects which WW devices you have, and sends a list of game state variables that need to be exported back to SAP (Ex: apu light or landing gear handle light). That is why in wwtExport.lua you will not see references to UFC/APU Light/Landing Gear Light in the lua file as this is controlled over networked requests.

[markturner1960]

Thanks Preston, the BEH motion entry I imagine is something to do with my newly installed Brunner FFB joystick...) The software is called CLS2...) but I dont know. 

However, in both files, the winwing entry is first..... if it had to be last, surely the new one would not work? Or maybe it has to be after the motion cls entry if that is present for some reason? 

Its a shame we cant ask Winwing about this...great products but you are simply unable to get any kind of technical support from them.......

[Joss]

Hi ! 
I have the same problem. I’ve just started to configure my MIP and everything is working fine except fir the UFC display.

So was the repair. Lua the solution for you ? And I imagine that if I do it I’ll lost my tacview and streamdeck configurations ?

thanks !

[BadGas]

On 5/14/2023 at 5:39 AM, Joss said:

Hi ! 
I have the same problem. I’ve just started to configure my MIP and everything is working fine except fir the UFC display.

So was the repair. Lua the solution for you ? And I imagine that if I do it I’ll lost my tacview and streamdeck configurations ?

thanks !

Did you get yours to work? Mine just went haywire today after working fine for a week out of the box. Is there a lua solution? 

On 11/28/2022 at 2:49 PM, markturner1960 said:

As title, my UFC is stuck with the placeholder LED pattern on all the display windows...have tried several restarts, still no joy.....everything else working fine - IE all the buttons etc. Not sure where to look for issues anyone got an idea? I did a DCS clean and repair earlier, do you think its changed a required file somewhere? 

Did you come up with a solution? Mine is doing the same thing all of a sudden. Everything else works just fine. Weird. 

[markturner1960]

Hi, not sure I can remember exactly what i did that far back! sorry! try generating a new export.lua file?

[rob10]

Definitely seems like info isn't being exported to it.  I had that the other night and wondered what was happening until I realized I hadn't started SimAppPro .  If you installed any updates or possibly any mods it may have overwritten part of the export in the lua.

[Joss]

Hi, yes I solved my UFC problem.

I repaired my Export.lua file by using the "repair lua" option in SimApp. It will generate a save of your old Export.lua but make a manual save before repairing it just in case.

After that UFC should work, but you'll have to copy-past the other elements of your old Export.lua.

In the new Export.lua you should have only the SimApp lines :

local wwtlfs=require('lfs')

dofile(wwtlfs.writedir()..'Scripts/wwt/wwtExport.lua')

 

In my case, I had to place the Simapp lines below the other lines of command (streamdeck + tackview).

 

Sometimes, after a restart, the two SimApp lines of command will be automatically generated above all the other lines. You just have to delete those two lines.

 

You'll find in the attached files my Export.lua as an example

Export_backup.lua

[taichi]

Thanks !! I just solved the same problem y've figured out !

Thanks!