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[nassisi80]

HI there to all the beautiful people in this community!!

I am ready to wrap things up with the cabinet I built, I have all the front end and various pinball software setup and running correctly,

but there is one thing I can't seem to figure out...no matter how much I read on the topic and how many times I try different solutions,

I have not succeeded in the task.

What I am trying to accomplish is to have the LED buttons on my cab lit up when VP9,VPX, Physmod and FX2 are running.

So far I have only accomplished to have them lit up static during table selection on PinballX and they will also go in attract mode if I do not touch any buttons for a minute or so while in table selection mode.

I have accomplished this via the Pinball X plugin manager (see screenshot).

Now, one of the plugin available is called Quick Launch, which if I understand correctly, lets you launch any other software in background before or after a certain system (VP9,VPX etc) is launched by the front end.

I have verified that LEDBlinky.exe does launch correctly, but nothing happens (the buttons do not lit up); I am apparently missing the arguments (see screenshot where the field says 'no arguments specified').

My questions are:

- am I taking the right approach to achieve what I want to achieve? (I do not want anything fancy at this point, just have those buttons lit)

- and if I am on the right path, what argument should I type in that field that gives me an error? (tried LEDBlinxy.exe <default>, LEDBlinxy.exe <rom> and other combinations but nothing worked.

As far as the hardware setup I have one side of the LedWiz control the inputs and the other side control the LED output.

Nothing wrong with the hardware because, as I mentioned, the LED lights work fine when controlled via PinballX LED plugin.

Please WONDERFUL PEOPLE of VPForums come to my rescue! I am ready to wrap things up with my first cabinet build and cannot wait to start my second this coming winter.

Thank you so much and cheers!!!

Long live the silver ball!

 

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[nassisi80]

Anyone?

[hlr53]

Have you tried Direct Output Framework by Swisslizard? I can't help with configuration because I am still in early cabinet building and haven't installed yet.

[DDH69]

It sounds like what you are trying can be easily accomplished with the DOFLinx utility I've written.  Thanks to the management here it has its own forum on this site.  Just have a look at the pinned post in the DOFLinx forum.

 

You can turn on your button LEDs with BUTTONS_ON= parameter, or you could send the utility a message to turn the button LEDs on at any time.

[hlr53]

And I will DEFINITELY being using DOFLinx when I start on the software for my cab. I've been browsing the threads. Great stuff and thanks for programming it.

[arzoo]

Now, one of the plugin available is called Quick Launch, which if I understand correctly, lets you launch any other software in background before or after a certain system (VP9,VPX etc) is launched by the front end.

I have verified that LEDBlinky.exe does launch correctly, but nothing happens (the buttons do not lit up); I am apparently missing the arguments (see screenshot where the field says 'no arguments specified').

My questions are:

- am I taking the right approach to achieve what I want to achieve? (I do not want anything fancy at this point, just have those buttons lit)

- and if I am on the right path, what argument should I type in that field that gives me an error? (tried LEDBlinxy.exe <default>, LEDBlinxy.exe <rom> and other combinations but nothing worked.

As far as the hardware setup I have one side of the LedWiz control the inputs and the other side control the LED output.

 

 

 

The parameters for LEDBlinky should be the rom name and emulator name. You’ll need to configure PinballX to pass these parameters. So for example;

..\LEDBlinky\LEDBlinky.exe “silverball” “virtualpinball”

But LEDBlinky still won’t know what ports to light up for the rom/emulator. From the LEDBlinky Controls Editor, use the Import Unknown Games menu option and you should see from the example above, “silverball” and “virtualpinball” listed. You can then configure the default controls for the emulator (or specific controls for the rom). If you still can’t get it to work, try using the LEDBlinky troubleshooting app. And if that doesn’t provide any solutions, email me the debug.ZIP file and I’ll take a look at the logs.