score_queue_player night mode

[Dan - aka BorgDog]

I have my game configured with chimes and a score_queue_player.  I'm in the process of setting up a service menu, because why not, and one of things I wanted to put in is a night mode where it does not play the chimes, but I see no way to either disable a coil (disable on coils just turns it off if it's active) nor tell score_queue_player to do the scoring but not play the chimes.

any ideas?  new feature?  I'm on .57.4.dev1

[Alex L]

It looks like the crucial line is in score_queue.py:72 where it does a chime pulse.

If you wrap that (and its log) in a conditional, you could add a dynamic conditional to the definition of score_queue (config_spec etc, see playfields:enable_ball_search using template_bool). Then you just need a setting or other machine var and you should be able to control the pulse behavior. Since it's unlikely that this value will change _during active scoring_, you might evaluate it earlier in _handle_score_queue rather than forcing a template evaluation on every iteration of the while loop.

[Alex L]

I meant to include a link

https://github.com/missionpinball/mpf/blob/8cfd1c8e0a0b41a07610e3ba76c1abcfa05f5a96/mpf/devices/score_queue.py#L72

[Dan - aka BorgDog]

thanks Alex