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Hello,

There are two leds on the MGC Pro Ultimate. What are their utility ?
For now I know :

- red led : indicator of Master Mode status
- green led : indicator of ???

Clarification warmly welcome.

Have fun

Yes red is indicator for when Master Mode is in relative axis mode.
Green afaik is just indicating powered on.

KPX wrote:Hello,

There are two leds on the MGC Pro Ultimate. What are their utility ?
For now I know :

- red led : indicator of Master Mode status
- green led : indicator of ???

Clarification warmly welcome.

Have fun

Well, that's the out of the box behavior. But you can program more if you want.



I have my little dot 'green' with connection, but it flashes rapid cyan when I'm on the trigger, because "pew! pew!". I took out the alternate analog/POV master mode for just a hat, so I have the bigger oval off most of the time, slow-flash red when the flip-up trigger is in the "up" position. (Which is my 'cargo scoop out' in 'hold' mode in Elite Dangerous.)

Hello,

Thanks a lot for this clear information.
So the green led on the stick has no special meaning (like the red oval one) ?

Best regards

rtrski wrote:

KPX wrote:Hello,

I have my little dot 'green' with connection, but it flashes rapid cyan when I'm on the trigger, because "pew! pew!". I took out the alternate analog/POV master mode for just a hat, so I have the bigger oval off most of the time, slow-flash red when the flip-up trigger is in the "up" position. (Which is my 'cargo scoop out' in 'hold' mode in Elite Dangerous.)

I've got an Ultimate and I feel stupid I never thought of that. I have my flip trigger set to Afterburner when up, and spacebrake when pulled (in Star Citizen). I've had issues with forgetting I'm in AB...just reprogrammed LED 11 (oval) to Ultra Fast flash Red when button 35 is pressed (i.e. flip trigger is up). Thanks for the idea!

Very welcome. Yep, them using it as a 'mode indicator' got me thinking about the same thing. I mean, the stick has no idea what it's bound to in game but it sure knows if its's own flip-up trigger is up, if the hat is analog vs. digital, etc.

Flashes while firing are just for fun. Not like I really am LOOKING at them when I'm firing. Or making the "pew pew" sounds with my mouth. Nope. Never. Ask me twice and I'll deny it again.

KPX wrote:Hello,

Thanks a lot for this clear information.
So the green led on the stick has no special meaning (like the red oval one) ?

Best regards

Just indicates it's alive and powered, by default. I think in the software (not looking at the moment) it was coded as Event "Bus Error", negated, Solid green. e.g. "if there is no bus error..." Or maybe I'm mixing that up with the Blackbox and it was just a "zero state" (e.g. "do this if nothing else is happening") setting.

VKBDevCfg appears to let multiple LED events be created for each LED; I don't know what the maximum 'buffer' or event list that can be stored is. I want to say there were 12 - 16 different events predefined but a few of those looked like they were just placeholder lines.

Thanks again. Just have to find how to progam the leds.

Happy 2021

Just came to say I've done the same yesterday 1 led for missile release, 1 fast blinking led for the gun

Hello,

Can somebody direct me to a tutorial for programming these leds. Or give me some instruction on how to do this ?
Thank you.

Have a nice day (or night).

I tried to program the LEDs, but the mapping, shown in the picture above, not working here. When I try to set LED#10 should light on, when I press the Shift button, nothing happens. When I set the LED# to 0 and I press the Shift button, the LED on the base and the Ultimate stick light on. I'm totally confused at the moment.

simmeone wrote:I tried to program the LEDs, but the mapping, shown in the picture above, not working here. When I try to set LED#10 should light on, when I press the Shift button, nothing happens. When I set the LED# to 0 and I press the Shift button, the LED on the base and the Ultimate stick light on. I'm totally confused at the moment.

You'd have to show pictures of the settings for us to go by. I wonder if you accidentally edited multiple rows. I did notice that messing around with the LEDs section could be a little....perilous. It didn't always seem to take and hold what I thought it would and I'd have to re-do.

The LEDs on grip are 10 and 11 only I believe, you have to select the correct action and its not always obvious. For example, I have set constant light and flashing when I press the following buttons (logical buttons being the actual buttons on the grip):

Here a picture of my LED configuration.

When I press the SHIFT button, LED# 10 should light on, but it doesn't, but when I set LED# to 0, then the SYS LED on the base and the round LED on the stick light on. Don't understand it.
The same strange behaviour is at line 7 (POV active), only the dot LED on stick blink, although I never set LED# 10 I'm confused!

Ok, I did a small experiment: I reset all lines, in the first line I set as event Rudder Connect, LED#0 - the sys LED of base and the dot LED of stick is light on. I changed die LED# to 1, the pedals LED of base and the oval LED of stick is light on. When I changed the LED# to 10 or 11, nothing is happened. On my ultimate stick, it seams that the dot and oval LED synced with the base LEDs of sys and pedals.

I havent played around with shifts much but are you sure you dont have to assign the OP1 to the button that represents SHIFT? As thats how you use LED with logical buttons, I would guess its similar.