Was a great stream yesterday;-). I know you do it out of passion and not for clicks, but you deserve a lot more attention for such informative great content;-).
Hi Jab, first congratulations on your video serie on mpf, that's amazing and priceless! Thank you! For this particular video I have 2 questions: 1-I'm not sure I get how the rpi and your pc running mpf are connected. Is it buy a direct link via ethernet or are they connected to the same network (via your box maybe?) 2- You mention the use of this rpi-rgb-led-matrix but on mpf doc, I'm not sure that the rpi running the dmd can be connected the way you present (using pigpiio) and has to run mpf also or not? I'd like to run mpf on PC and rpi-rgb-led-matrix on the pi. Best regards, Poukah P.S.: sorry if in the futur, this post appears 3 times. the first 2 comments I posted have been deleted after a few seconds, maybe because I posted a link in it. sorry for that
1. You can use ethernet or WIFI. I guess in a pinball machine you generally want ethernet. Serial (over USB) might be possible as well but I did not try that. Everything which is supported by pigpiod works. I got the RPi in my network but you can also run a direct link with static IPs. 2. Currently, MPF has to run on the RPi for rpi-rgb-led-matrix. Technically, we could implement a bridge for that but nobody did that yet. Would probably be worth the effort.
I recall seeing the guts of the Attack From Mars remake and it had a BeagleBone black plugged (as a daughterBoard) on the driver board. I assume they just run some kind of pinmame emulation on it
Yeah if you do not run any (high-res) graphics this becomes a lot easier. You can easily run MPF on a RPi3 or RPi4 with "just" a DMD or segment displays. Full HD LCDs make this more tricky (but not impossible).
Hi Jab thanks for some great videos. I am very new to MPF and taking many small steps. I have installed MPF on a RPI4 and would like to connect an arduino mega for switches and lights. your guidance on this would be appreciated. I am also trying to source suitable code for the Arduino to interface with the RPI. Any help would be appreciated
Welcome :-). We generally recommend to develop the game on some powerful desktop/notebook and deploy it to the RPi later when it is mostly done. If you want to use an Arduino as pinball controller I recommend to have look at APC (Arduino Pinball Controller) in the MPF docs.
Was a great stream yesterday;-). I know you do it out of passion and not for clicks, but you deserve a lot more attention for such informative great content;-).
Has been fun! :-)
Hi Jab, first congratulations on your video serie on mpf, that's amazing and priceless! Thank you!
For this particular video I have 2 questions:
1-I'm not sure I get how the rpi and your pc running mpf are connected. Is it buy a direct link via ethernet or are they connected to the same network (via your box maybe?)
2- You mention the use of this rpi-rgb-led-matrix but on mpf doc, I'm not sure that the rpi running the dmd can be connected the way you present (using pigpiio) and has to run mpf also or not? I'd like to run mpf on PC and rpi-rgb-led-matrix on the pi.
Best regards,
Poukah
P.S.: sorry if in the futur, this post appears 3 times. the first 2 comments I posted have been deleted after a few seconds, maybe because I posted a link in it. sorry for that
1. You can use ethernet or WIFI. I guess in a pinball machine you generally want ethernet. Serial (over USB) might be possible as well but I did not try that. Everything which is supported by pigpiod works. I got the RPi in my network but you can also run a direct link with static IPs.
2. Currently, MPF has to run on the RPi for rpi-rgb-led-matrix. Technically, we could implement a bridge for that but nobody did that yet. Would probably be worth the effort.
I recall seeing the guts of the Attack From Mars remake and it had a BeagleBone black plugged (as a daughterBoard) on the driver board. I assume they just run some kind of pinmame emulation on it
Yeah if you do not run any (high-res) graphics this becomes a lot easier. You can easily run MPF on a RPi3 or RPi4 with "just" a DMD or segment displays. Full HD LCDs make this more tricky (but not impossible).
Hi Jab thanks for some great videos. I am very new to MPF and taking many small steps. I have installed MPF on a RPI4 and would like to connect an arduino mega for switches and lights. your guidance on this would be appreciated. I am also trying to source suitable code for the Arduino to interface with the RPI. Any help would be appreciated
Welcome :-). We generally recommend to develop the game on some powerful desktop/notebook and deploy it to the RPi later when it is mostly done. If you want to use an Arduino as pinball controller I recommend to have look at APC (Arduino Pinball Controller) in the MPF docs.