[REQUEST] Announcement LVARs

[YukiSuter]

Aircraft Version

Experimental

Description

Announcement variables that can be accessed by FSUIPC. Something as simple as a variable triggerred when FBW announcements WOULD play. (This could be as a 3rd Party Announcements compatibility option in the 3rd party options in the EFB).

This would let other programs play announcements in place of the FBW ones which we've established cannot be replaced with custom ones within MSFS due to the sound system. It would therefore make when announcements are played consistent across external programs and when FBW decides they should be played.

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I've had a look at the available LVARs (using FSUIPC) and I could find I think one variable that could be used for this, the "A32NX_CABIN_READY" probably could be used for the cabin crew's "Cabin is secure" message or something. But otherwise I couldn't find any. Please correct me if I'm wrong here.

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yukisuter (yukisuter#0918)

[ErikNL80]

Cabin secure is indeed covered. I am using a StreamDeck XL with the flightpanels.io package and there is a button to play the cabin secure announcement

[YukiSuter]

Actually it seems after some digging that this feature would essentially be added by this PR: #7709
(check this commit for the crucial part: 84c4781 )