light_rings question, accessing individual lights in a light ring

[driskel]

When configuring a light ring, do you also configure the individual lights as well.

For discussion let's assume we are using a neopixel 12 led light ring with a fade candy board.  The board will be of address 0 and we will use 0-11 lights.

light_rings:
  ring1:
    number_start: 0
    count: 12
    radius: 3
    start_angle: 90
    center_x: 100
    center_y: 50
    debug: True 
    number_template: 0-{}

The use case, is I want to track shots via counter and increment the the number of LED's in the ring.

counters:  
    to_super_jets_1_counter:
        count_events: sw_pop_active
        direction: down
        starting_count: 11
        count_interval: 1
        count_complete_value: 0
        persist_state: True
        events_when_complete:
            super_jets_1_start
        events_when_hit:
            countdown_to_superjets  

Another scenario, I would like to do, is address each individual light for light shows.  So in this case do I also define these are LED's.

Thanks.

[jabdoa]

It should automatically configure the lights in the ring as ring_light_0, ring_light_1 and so on. You can use the mpf monitor or mpf service cli to check the names. We probably should document this behavior as well.

Jan

[driskel]

Thank you for the response.  That would be a great documentation point.

[driskel]

Another question for you.  I am away from the hardware right now.

Is it implied that the light_rings are fadecandy or some other platform? I have 2 light systems in my machine (PD-LEDs and fadecandy). I am trying to use the fadecandy/neopixels for the light rings.

I was expecting to be able to use the platform variable like this.

light_rings:
    l_fc_ring1:
        number_start: 64
        number_template: 0-{}

        count: 12
        radius: 3
        start_angle: 90
        center_x: 100
        center_y: 50
        debug: True

        #platform: fadecandy
        tags: alllights

[driskel]

My hardware in the /config/config.yaml

hardware:
    platform: p3_roc
    driverboards: pdb
    lights: p3_roc, fadecandy
    rgb_dmd: smartmatrixEnter code here...

[jabdoa]

That should be in the light_template setting. See the example here: http://docs.missionpinball.org/en/dev/config/light_rings.html.

Jan

[driskel]

Thank you.

I missed that in the documentation