This Month in MPF February 2019

28 Feb 2019 - jab

What happened in MPF-land in February 2019? This post will highlight changes in MPF, MPF-MC, MPF monitor, documentation and the rest of the ecosystem.

News

• MPF 0.52 has been released
• Segment Displays on light drivers - jab

MPF Projects

We collect a list of active publicly documented projects by MPF users. Some new projects which joined the list this month:

• Celts

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

0.52 release

We released MPF 0.52.1 and MPF-MC 0.52.1.

Changes/New features

• No changes

Bugfixes

• Fix some yaml parsing errors - jab
• Fix error with Python 3.7 - avanwinkle
• Fix driver stuck on in rules in P/P3-Roc - jab [0.52.1; backport]

Documentation

• Extend Multimorphic PowerEntry board documentation - colemanomartin
• Fix tutorial step 18 - jab based on question by Pablo

Dev release (future 0.53)

We pushed MPF 0.53.0-dev0 and MPF-MC 0.53.0-dev0.

Changes/New features

• Support segment displays connected to normal light of a platform - jab
• Batch LED updates for PD-LED and P/P3-Roc to prevent bus overflows - jab
• Make separate thread configurable in P/P3-Roc and reduce IPC overhead - jab
• Highlight settings in service mode - avanwinkle

Bugfixes

• Fix some yaml parsing errors - jab
• Fix error with Python 3.7 - avanwinkle
• Fix driver stuck on in rules in P/P3-Roc - jab
• Do not crash in service cli when playing invalid shows - jab

Documentation

• Extend Multimorphic PowerEntry board documentation - colemanomartin
• Center Post Ball Save Example - mwiz
• Part numbers for trough opto boards - jab
• Image for Center Post - swizzlefish
• Improve game mode example - gregsealby
• Fix typos, fix2 - densminger
• Extend documentation for multiple screens - jab based on question by Haggis and solution by Snux
• Fix tutorial step 18 - jab based on question by Pablo

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

• Multiply volumes instead of overwriting them in sound_player and sound_loop_player - qcapen (breaking change)
• Multi display updates improvements - qcapen
• Spike 2 support in mpf-spike-bridge - jab and wolfmarsh
• New Spike bridge with less switch latency in Rust - jab

Upcoming changes

• Stern Spike 2 support - wolfmarsh and jab
• Full support for LISY35 - jab and bontango

Do you want to contribute?

A list of things where we would love contributions (not exclusive):

• Pictures for the following devices: pop bumpers, incandescant bulbs, GI bulbs, GI LEDs, data east optos, dual wound coils, coils, orbits, kickbacks, kicking targets, servos, accelerometer, playfield, flashers, flippers, steppers, score reels, diverters, trough with optos - please only send us picture where the rights belong to you
• add an initial stepper device howto
• Document asset pools such as video_pools, image_pools or show_pools
• Create an electronical drawing for mechanical switches in matrix and on direct inputs
• Document motors
• Add an example or howto for timed switches
• Add an example or howto for ball holds
• Add an example or howto for combo switches
• Add an example or howto for diverters
• Add an example or howto for shot_profiles
• Adding more devices to the built-in service mode
• More good first issues in MPF
• More TODOs in the documentation

Other contributions are welcome as well. Those are meant as starting point. Let us know in the forum if you want to work on something or got questions.

New contributors

Welcome gregsealby and densminger.

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