I'm doing research into various coding parameters, in the context of lights and power control of same, and have ended up trying to decipher some acronyms. Wondering if folks know what these are:

WLH
FLB
UEA

Combinations of interest that I'm seeing them in:

WLH_FMH_RL
WLH_FMH_FLB_UEA_RL
FLB_UEA

I suspect WLH is Welcome Home lighting, but the H and L are reversed so can't quite confirm.

FMH is apparently "Follow Me Home" a lighting feature (keeps your lights on for X amount of time after you exit/lock the car).

In the contexts I'm looking, I'm pretty sure that "RL" is Running Lights because not many other explanations (reverse lights, ring lights) in those specific contexts make sense.

For those with deeper interest, I'm investigating the various "PART_OF" params under MAPPING sections in BimmerCode, to understand how individual lights (example: LF wheel arch light, right angel eye, etc) are put in lighting groups (welcome home lights; parking lights, daytime or nighttime running lights, etc) how they are then power-managed by group (vs. by individual bulb/lamp/fixture).

Thanks for any intel!

 

@cjv2 very intriguing and going to follow this thread because I have a feeling a lot of great information will be shared

Side Note: BimmerCode was updated today with some new features, fixes and stability improvements. It’s hard to believe the last update was over a year ago

 

ooooo. Backup export. If it’s readable, YAY.

Yeah who knows where this thread may go. But I’ll tell you I’m deep enough in figuring some of this stuff out that I managed to turn the scuttle lights on my F56S, which are normally turn signals only, into combo running lights/turn signals when the running lights are on.

This may seem cosmetic, but if your MINI is black or other very dark color, it can ensure that someone sees the side of your car between the mirrors and the rear wheel well at night. As to why I think that matters, see my signature…

Not ready to put a DIY up, the method needs refinement (info I’m looking for via this thread is hoped to help), buuuuut… you get the idea

 

Well, the backup is not readable so that takes care of that question

 

All I can offer is the string of letters is probably the abbreviations of the German words that describe the items/features. At least this is what I'd believe absent something in black and white that says "WLH" is "welcome home lighting" for example.

 

In general what I've run into is that it may be abbreviation of German or English, but in either case a descriptor of the items/features as you suggest. In some cases it's German phrasing (grammatically) of English phrases -- don't ask me why.

From a code-contextual standpoint (meaning digging around inside BimmerCode and looking at lighting parameters), almost everything I see with WLH around -- but unclear in the specific combos WLH_FMH_RL and WLH_FMH_FLB_UEA_RL -- looks to be tied to Welcome Home Lighting as discussed (using the same phrase) in many places online. But I'm interested in the combo values because they look to be involved in specifying other groupings, and I'm trying to understand how groupings in general work in the light fixture mapping code.

Since I don't speak German, getting the particulars of FLB and UEA in particular has eluded me. As for FMH, I got lucky and stumbled into that in a BMW forum discussion (and it tied directly to a named BMW/MINI feature as well as related codings, so it lined up).