Why doesn't my SetMASTER_BATTERY_ON() work while SetMASTER_BATTERY_OFF() does?

[ZenMusic]

Please look at this. I am simconnect app in C#

//
THIS WORKS

public void SetMASTER_BATTERY_OFF()
{
TransmitEvent(EventEnum.MASTER_BATTERY_OFF, 1);
TransmitEvent(EventEnum.MASTER_BATTERY_OFF, 2);
}

WHY THEN DOESN"T THIS WORK (has no effect , electrical external power is on)

public void SetMASTER_BATTERY_ON()
{
TransmitEvent(EventEnum.MASTER_BATTERY_ON, 1);
TransmitEvent(EventEnum.MASTER_BATTERY_ON, 2);
}

they all call
simConnect.TransmitClientEvent(0, cmd, Param, GROUP.GROUP1, SIMCONNECT_EVENT_FLAG.GROUPID_IS_PRIORITY);

MY AI tells me I should use something like this for the indexes

simConnect.MapClientEventToSimEvent(EventID.MASTER_BATTERY1_ON, “MASTER_BATTERY1_ON”);

is that correct?

THIS IS ALL IN THE Asobo A320

 

[MaxPaperno]

I can't really answer the underlying question, but it's likely not your code. Just tried it here and same results (stock Asobo A320-neo). And MASTER_BATTERY_SET acts the same way -- can turn them off but not on.

In the process I discovered that the docs for MASTER_BATTERY_SET have the parameter order switched... the first param is actually the bool value and 2nd is the index. Good times.

I'm curious, do you use any program/app to test things like key events or sim vars before trying to use them in actual code?

There are so many things that just don't work, or don't work as expected (especially with some models) that I find it a huge time saver to verify these things first before trying to actually use them in something I'm building.

Cheers,
-Max

 

[ZenMusic]

thank you Max. Well your suggestion is a wise one, I have added in many functions at once and then discover some don't work and the I start hacking and trying other revisions to try to the broken ones working.
That has not be producitive.

So I did just create an nex example app for testing and I'll only keep the code that works. !

On ther other hand, I gave up on this app some time again because so many functions did not work .... then with the latest SDK update ... suddenly a dozen or so functions worked magically just by compiling to the update.

 

[DragonflightDesign]

If something doesn't work and you can be sure that your code is correct (as in your example above) start getting suspicious of the SDK. Never trust anything in the simconnect.h file (you've probably read my other exchange with Max on menus) and never forget that the SDK hasn't even reached 1.0 yet. That in itself implies that some of it is broken/still not implemented.

 

[ZenMusic]

thanks for the advice .. I had an app almost ready for beta a year ago and after a MS release it was a disaster and I was unable to figure it out. Now a year later I took the recent release , compiled my old program and most of it magically works now.