The Mission Pinball Framework

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This Month in Pinball September 2018

29 Sep 2018 - jab

What happened in MPF-land in September 2018? This post will highlight changes in MPF, MPF-MC, MPF monitor, documentation and the rest of the ecosystem.

News

HotRod and OPP.. what happened? - Hugh from OPP
HotRod and OPP and MPF - jab (as response to Hugh)
LISY35 for Bally/Stern machine between 1977 and 1985 - MPF will support this platform soon
MPF Stickers

MPF Projects

Some active publicly documented projects by MPF users.

We know that there are a lot more projects. Let us know if you want to be listed here as well.

Current stable release (0.50)

We released MPF 0.50.16 and MPF-MC 0.50.8 with bugfixes and backports.

Changes

No changes

Bugfixes

Fix mode events when starting/stopping mode from BCP - jab based on report by Travis Martin (backport)
Fix display_light_player crash when used in mode - jab (backport)
Fix crash in BCP with MPF Monitor - jab based on report from alex (backport)

Documentation

No changes

Dev release (future 0.51)

We pushed MPF 0.51.0-dev-11 and MPF-MC 0.51.0-dev.2.

Changes/New features

Support other channel orders than RGB for all RGB DMDs - jab based on request from Cadrion
Prevent warnings during init and batch incandescant update for OPP - jab
Improve FAST behaviour during MPF init - jab
Entrance switch ignore window - avanwinkle
Improved README.md for the MPF project - austinbgill
Update kivy to version 1.10.1 - jab
Prevent bad switch config for drop_targets, shots and autofires - jab

Bugfixes

Fix mode events when starting/stopping mode from BCP - jab based on report by Travis Martin
Fix display_light_player crash when used in mode - jab
Fix crash in BCP with MPF Monitor - jab based on report from alex

Documentation

Document appliance classes and common ground - jab
Added examples for PD-LED - jab
Improved bonus mode documentation - avanwinkle
Document ball and game end mode blocking - jab inspired by Lynn
Extra ball based on score example - jab based on example from Lynn
How to use high score mode in EMs - jab based on example from Lynn
Document RGB DMD channel_order parameter - jab
Added example of game mode which increases multiplier when lanes are complete - travisbmartin
No longer claim Python 3.4 support - it is EOL - jab
Document PC power on/off - jab
Typos, Typos - travisbmartin
Improve skill shot example to prevent race condition and add timeout - jab based on question from mike wiz
Document scoring based on logic blocks - jab based on question from alex
Describe how to debug crashes with GDB - jab
How to tune eject_timeouts in ball devices - jab
Understanding tags in MPF - cfbenn
Example for using MC with multiple screens - jab based on example from Brian Cox/cfbenn/qcapen

Have a look at the dev documentation. Do you have an example which is missing there? Please send it to us!

Open PRs/Not landed yet

Upcoming changes/Not landed yet

Support for the Pololu Tic stepper controller - wolfmarsh
Support for LISY35 - jab

New contributors

Welcome travisbmartin and austinbgill!

Did we forget anything? Please let us know! Discussions in MPF-Users.