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title: CFE-coils-1: Driver must have a number

CFE-coils-1: Driver must have a number

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This error occurs when MPF loads a coil which is has an empty number or misses a number entry. Unfortunately, hardware needs a switch number to address your coil and it cannot continue without a number.

Examples

Physical Coils

This is how a coil should look:

coils:
  your_coil:
    number: 1

The actual number depends on your hardware platform. See the How to configure "number:" settings guide for details.

Virtual Coils

Sometimes you did not wire up a coil but you know that you will need it later. This is a problem for your physical hardware controller but you can tell MPF to use the virtual hardware platform for one particular coil:

coils:
  your_virtual_coil:
    number:
    platform: virtual

In this case the number can be empty.

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Have a look at our Troubleshooting section. It might give you some hints for certain classes of problems.

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