Controlling the PMDG B737 External lights with Axis And Ohs under MSFS

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Controlling the PMDG B737 External lights with Axis And Ohs under MSFS

 

Big thank you to Andrew2448 on FlightSim.to.
This tutorial is inspired from his work on the B737 interface

 

This is simply an informational post about one possible way to interface some of the PMDG 737 external lights.
This NOT a compatibility warranty or an official feature of the PMDG B737, Honeycomb or MSFS.
This is only sharing information, experience and ideas to build your own development.
 

We will not cover the use of Axis And Ohs here.
There is a introduction tutorial available :
 

The Axis And Ohs lights template are attached  below

The Axis And Ohs lights RPN scripts are attached below

 

The featured lights are :
 
- Anticollision Lights
- Landing Lights
- Strobe Lights

- Runway Lights

- Taxi Lights

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We will use the K-vars specific to the PMDG lights from within the RPN editor
in AxisAndOhs.

 

For each lights we create two Axis And Ohs scripts.
1 - The first one sets the corresponding K-Var to 0 (or OFF)

2 - The second one sets the same K-Var to 1 or 2 (or ON)

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After that, each button is assigned the two light functions
(One for the button ON state, the other for the button OFF state)

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Global overview of the Honeycomb Bravo template :

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NOTE : 
This template is specific to the Honeycomb Bravo Throttle quadrant.
You can of course use any other controller by using the scripts only
and assigning them to the buttons of your own controller.

 

That’s it !

PMDG737LightsScripts.xml PMDG737-LIGHTS-HONEYCOMB-BRAVO.tmpl