Mute PS3 Dash-9, no lights either

How about the Sound menu?  (menu/Sound) Same thing? having no lights as well  is not good. I'm guessing you tried the hard keys... sounds. lights and start up as well?

Alex,

For the most part, like in this case,  you can ignore the battery indicator for PS3 engines.

Greg,

Yes, that was it! All the sound volumes were turned down to 0%, and the lights off - no wonder. IIRC, when I did a Feature Reset on PS2 engines, the volumes were not turned down to 0%; as a matter of fact, I believe they were at 100%, the lights were on, and the smoke came on.

Barry - I guess MTH did not get around to update the menus to match the PS3 engines. Do you know when the new remote will be available?

Bottom line - The engine is 100% A-OK! 

THANK YOU very much!

Alex

PS. I also found out that one of my two remotes has very uncooperative buttons, and some have to be pushed really hard to make them work.

Alex,

Do you know when the new remote will be available?

My best guess is that the final, Pro, version of the DCS App will be  the "new" remote, at least for the foreseeable future.

Good to hear it's fixed. It seems a feature reset is no longer what it was for 14 years.

Gregg,

It seems a feature reset is no longer what it was for 14 years.

I'm not slo sure of that.

It could be that the fault lies not with the feature reset, rather, it's entirely possible that the feature defaults are where is the problem.

If the feature defaults were, instead of sounds at 100% or so and lights "on", that the defaults were sounds at 0% and lights "off", that would not only explain why a feature reset didn't correct the problem and also, perhaps, how the problem occurred in the first place.

If Alex is up for an experiment, all he needs to do to find out is to perform a Feature Reset of the engine.

I tried testing  with the hard key sound/  lights in the off position. A feature reset restored everything. I went to the sound menu and couldn't adjust the engine sounds volume, The sound hard key must be in the on position,

With the hard keys on.

With all the sounds set at  zero  under the sound menu, a feature reset restore everything to 100 %

There is a glitch though... Even though a feature reset retains the engine's ID, the custom name you've given the engine is lost and this engine reverted back to it's factory name. I don't have an upgraded engine to test but suspect the custom name just disappears.

I guess the bottom line is try all the options.. Hard keys, sound menu/ feature reset. BTW this was a proto-2.

Gregg,

Even though a feature reset retains the engine's ID, the custom name you've given the engine is lost and this engine reverted back to it's factory name. I don't have an upgraded engine to test but suspect the custom name just disappears.

That's a bug introduced with DCS 5.0 (or possibly with DCS 3.0, I can't really say for sure). Otherwise, Feature Reset appears to work as it should.

 The custom  name dropping  just showed up with version 5... A feature reset is a big deal and having to type the custom name in every time is a bit of a pain . I don't suppose it will get fixed any time soon.