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#Lights in SimHub and ATSR-Hub

Where this fits: an optional part of step 4 of the setup guide. It needs the plugin (step 2) and Unleashed mode, so the custom firmware too (step 1). If you just want good lights, the plugin's own presets (Lights tab) already do rev lights, flags, spotter and alerts: nothing here is needed.

The FX Pro has 38 lights. The plugin can drive them from three places, and you pick one on the Lights tab (Lights come from):

Whichever you pick, a car alongside still lights the spotter on the wheel's side buttons, and the Wheel tab's brightness ceiling and night mode still apply.

#The FX Pro in SimHub's Devices

1. Unleashed mode on, the wheel connected: the Wheel tab says Ready.
2. In SimHub open Devices and add a new device: under the brand FX Unleashed pick FX Pro wheel (USB mode). (Not in the list? The plugin must be on, and SimHub restarted once after installing it. Only one can be added.)
3. Switch the device on.
4. In FX Unleashed, Lights tab: Lights come from: SimHub device. The line under it should say "SimHub device".
5. Back in SimHub, on the device, choose LED profiles as for any SimHub device, and use the LED editor's test to see them on the wheel.

How SimHub's parts land on the wheel:

Good to know:

• SimHub's LED profiles keep the lights off out of game by default, so nothing shows until a game runs (or you test). SimHub's default button and encoder colours (white) do show.
• A section's brightness of 0 in SimHub means off. The firmware's own limit is 90, and the plugin's brightness ceiling (Wheel tab) comes on top.
• The plugin sends SimHub's lights over the wheel's own USB cable, so the wheel must be in Unleashed mode. If the line says "no data from SimHub's device", the device is not added or not switched on in SimHub.

#ATSR-Hub

ATSR-Hub EVO (by ATSR-Alex, not part of this project) is a SimHub plugin with lights, themes and animations for many wheels. It doesn't know the FX Pro, so we publish a layout file for it.

1. Download the layout: Simagic_FX-Pro.atsrdevice. (It is also in every plugin release zip.)
2. Copy it into ATSR-Hub's preset folder, then restart SimHub: Documents\SimHub\ATSR\device-presets\device-presets\steering-wheel-presets\ (if your Documents folder is in OneDrive, it is in there).
3. In ATSR-Hub's Device Hub, add a device: steering wheel, then the entry Simagic FX-Pro. The free ATSR-Hub drives one wheel (the first one added, or the one picked in the Device Hub); more need ATSR-Hub premium.
4. In FX Unleashed, Lights tab: Lights come from: ATSR-Hub. With one ATSR-Hub device the plugin picks it by itself; with several, choose it in the list.
5. Start a game: ATSR-Hub's shift lights, flags, spotter and animations show on the wheel. Until ATSR-Hub sends something, the built-in lights stay on.

What the layout gives ATSR-Hub: the FX Pro's 38 lights as ATSR-Hub sees them: 12 buttons, 5 encoders, the 6 side lights and the 15 rev lights, with the wheel's USB ids so ATSR-Hub finds it. ATSR-Hub's button-press effects don't fire (the layout has no button inputs), and its animation theme is ATSR-Hub's own, not ours. If your layout numbers the lights differently, the Lights tab has an optional LED map (38 ATSR-Hub indexes, one per wheel LED, -1 = off).

#If something looks wrong

Developer notes on how both work (the properties ATSR-Hub publishes, the device's driver): usb-mode.md.