Light Rings and Stripes

[Greg Sealby]

I have a few questions regarding light rings/stripes that I hope someone can point me to the right location in the documentation.  I've been reviewing these pages to see if these are functions I want to use, and I'm still not quite sure what these functions actually do and how to play them:

http://docs.missionpinball.org/en/latest/config/light_rings.html

http://docs.missionpinball.org/en/latest/config/light_player.html

http://docs.missionpinball.org/en/latest/config/light_stripes.html

1. Is there an overview/example of what these functions do?
2. I am assuming that you configure a light ring or stripe and play this somehow using a light_player or show.  Does anyone have an example of this?  If this is not right, how do they play?  Are they auto?
3. I see that there is a setting for number_template to set the address to the lights in the ring/stripe.  We are using PD-LED (http://docs.missionpinball.org/en/latest/hardware/multimorphic/leds.html)  which has a number for each board and RGB channel (eg. 1-22-23-24).  Would I configure the number_template as 1-{}-{}-{}?
4. How do you set the color value for the light?  Do you set the default_on_color value in light_template

[jabdoa]

Those elementa are just helpers to add a lot of lights. They can be controlled normally using light player. Internally they create lights for you. I use them for long light strips because it saves a lot of typing. Rings are probably more of a toy currently.

> I see that there is a setting for number_template to set the address to the lights in the ring/stripe. We are using PD-LED (http://docs.missionpinball.org/en/latest/hardware/multimorphic/leds.html) which has a number for each board and RGB channel (eg. 1-22-23-24). Would I configure the number_template as 1-{}-{}-{}?

Good question. This probably just won't work for RGB on PD-LED. We can totally add support if you want it. Would be something like 1-{}-{+1}-{+2} or similar.

> How do you set the color value for the light? Do you set the default_on_color value in light_template

Usually using light player. The syntax above would be a RGB light. I'm not sure if we support single channel lights currently (like single red LEDs with 1-{}). We should also add that.

I guess overall those rings are rarely used because you can also just create 6 LEDs using copy and paste and layout them in the monitor. Strips are used for longer strips of serial LEDs because it saves a lot of typing. Makes sense? We are totally happy to add more features to it if you need them (or take contributions upstream).

Jan

[Greg Sealby]

Thanks Jan, appreciate the fast response.

I was thinking that these might provide some out of the box sequencing when played, which it not what it seems to do.  More on the config side of things.   I think I'll continue on with your suggestion and keep manually configuring with shows.