HyperMarquee

[Gilrock]

Does anyone have RocketLauncher pointing to the EDS executable renamed to LEDBlinky.exe?  I know how to run it from HyperSpin but I'd like to move it over so that RocketLauncher sends the commands to EDS so that I can use HyperMarquee for multiple front-ends.

[d8thstar]

i believe i have it set that way.  the issue is that HM won’t display anything until the first game is selected.  once you do that, it works as expected.

by having it in HS, marquee (thru EDS) starts when HS starts

[Gilrock]

I don't mind the marquee only showing up when I actually select a game.  I pointed RL to the EDS\LEDBlinky.exe and enabled it to true in RL settings and it doesn't appear to send anything when I launch a game.  For now I'm manually calling EDS using a User Functions in RL so I have it working but it won't help once I actually want EDS to forward to the real LEDBlinky.

[d8thstar]

did you set ledblinky to enable under global?  are individual emus set to use ledblinky (either true or use global)?

[Gilrock]

Yes I have everything set per the RL Wiki.  I see the following lines in my RL log file.  There is no "LEDBlinky" folder under the RocketLauncher\Profiles directory so I'm not sure what's supposed to be there or if that matters.

ledblinkyEnabled := "true"
ledblinkySystemName := "MAME"
ledblinkyFullPath := "M:\EDS\LEDBlinky.exe"
ledblinkyProfilePath := "M:\RocketLauncher\Profiles\LEDBlinky"
ledblinkyRLProfile := "M:\RocketLauncher\Profiles\LEDBlinky\RocketLauncher"

I also found this page:

RocketLauncher_Daemon

Are you using that Daemon?  When I look in the RocketLauncher\Daemon folder there is  file named "RocketLauncherDaemon (Example).ini".  I assume I would need to rename that file to "RocketLauncher.ini" to make it active.  There doesn't appear to be any area in RLUI to change settings for that daemon utility.

That Wiki page also claims RocketLauncher is on GIT.  I'd love to browse the source but I searched GitHub and I don't see it there.

The RL forum seems fairly dead so not getting much help.

[ninja2bceen]

I don’t think RocketLauncher is open source but maybe?

 

The RocketLauncher team won’t know how to fix this issue as it’s completely 3rd party. HM supports high scores, multiple artwork and marquees. Eds supports launching any of these at any time. You need a front end to support led blinky to fire eds which Eds then tell hm what to launch. It’s wierd that you have rl trying to fire eds, usually the front end calls for it so it’ll be hard to find help even here for it. This thread describes pretty well how to launch it in hyperspin. I just PT it set up about a month ago myself

 

 

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[Gilrock]

ninja I already have it working from HyperSpin.  I'm looking for other alternatives and you keep trying to shut me down.  If you don't have answers just kindly leave it be and I'll wait for others.  I'm sure several users here use RocketLauncher so I think its on topic to ask if anyone is using the RocketLauncher Daemon to run LEDBlinky which would in turn route the commands to EDS.  The RocketLauncher team should be able to tell me what the settings in RL do since they added the 3rd party support for it.  Since they aren't around I'm seeing if any users have it working from RL.

[sevenseal]

ninja I already have it working from HyperSpin.  I'm looking for other alternatives and you keep trying to shut me down.  If you don't have answers just kindly leave it be and I'll wait for others.  I'm sure several users here use RocketLauncher so I think its on topic to ask if anyone is using the RocketLauncher Daemon to run LEDBlinky which would in turn route the commands to EDS.  The RocketLauncher team should be able to tell me what the settings in RL do since they added the 3rd party support for it.  Since they aren't around I'm seeing if any users have it working from RL.

Direct support for this project is provided else where due to certain conflict of interest, if you locate the project main page you will receive better support there, i would like to point that out, but I am not allow to here. if you are not aware, you will gain limited support here

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[ninja2bceen]

Yes I use RocketLauncher with hyperspin and it works great. The problem I think you are having is you are using a front end that doesn’t support led blinky and you are trying to force RocketLauncher to act as an led blinky path. What I’m trying to say like seven seal is it’s a third party app, I think you’ll get a lot more help if you describe the use case at their github


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[Gilrock]

3 hours ago, sevenseal said:

Direct support for this project is provided else where due to certain conflict of interest, if you locate the project main page you will receive better support there, i would like to point that out, but I am not allow to here. if you are not aware, you will gain limited support here

I was away writing code for another project the last 4 years so I'm not familiar with what went on.  Before I posted I had already found you on GitHub listed for HyperMarquee and EDS but there was no content.  You have my email from PayPal just now feel free to say hi.

[Antos]

It is always a good place to ask for support from the community here, but no assurance. It is people that tries to help each other the best they can. Don't forget that your challenge is beyond HM and EDS, so that is why, I guess, people says it is not the best place.

For me,  I never used 3DArcade, and do not know much about RL. But when you call EDS from RL, you should be able to consult EDS log file. Some messages there may help you.

The real question you should ask yourself is: What are the parameters passed to EDS from RL? EDS expects to be called the same way it is called by HS.

[Gilrock]

Yes I checked for a log file in the EDS folder yesterday and didn't see it creating one.  You know people are treating me like I'm the first one to want to use EDS in RocketLauncher but its listed right there in the RL Wiki.  Right here on this page it says "Integration with EDS" which made me think it was reasonable to ask if anyone has that working.

RocketLauncher_Daemon

[sevenseal]

20 minutes ago, Gilrock said:

Yes I checked for a log file in the EDS folder yesterday and didn't see it creating one.  You know people are treating me like I'm the first one to want to use EDS in RocketLauncher but its listed right there in the RL Wiki.  Right here on this page it says "Integration with EDS" which made me think it was reasonable to ask if anyone has that working.

RocketLauncher_Daemon

eds require you to set true in the parameter to in the global setting tab once save correctly it will build a log, you might have your eds root folder lock down that will prevent it from being produce if your system allows folder/file structure have the permissions to create a file in the directory.

[sevenseal]

here is a example when the folder is lockdown.... you will see the box filled in where it is label as "Read-Only"

[Antos]

Sevenseal has a good point. Also, I recommend you to create a bat file and call EDS manually for testing purposes. If it works, then you know that it's the params from RL, otherwise, it's somewhere else, not RL. Something like; "C:\Users\EventDispatchSystem\ledblinky.exe" 1 Mame "Main Menu"

[Gilrock]

Thanks I'll check those settings for the log.  Yes I already had EDS working from a batch file.  Sevenseal gave me a tip that seems to have RL sending events now.  I had ledblinkyEnabled set to "true" but he suggested I use "All".  I made the change and now I see these entries in the RL log.

19:38:23:028 | MD |      INFO  | +0     | LEDBlinky - Started, sending mode START
19:38:23:028 | MD |      INFO  | +0     | Run - Running: M:\EDS\LEDBlinky.exe "joust" "MAME"
19:38:23:207 | MD |      INFO  | +187   | LEDBlinky - Ended
19:38:44:693 | MD |      INFO  | +0     | LEDBlinky - Started, sending mode END
19:38:44:737 | MD |      INFO  | +46    | LEDBlinky - Ended

That's still not displaying a marquee the way I had EDS setup because I usually send parameters like "1 joust MAME" to load and "2 joust MAME" to unload.

[sevenseal]

8 minutes ago, Gilrock said:

Thanks I'll check those settings for the log.  Yes I already had EDS working from a batch file.  Sevenseal gave me a tip that seems to have RL sending events now.  I had ledblinkyEnabled set to "true" but he suggested I use "All".  I made the change and now I see these entries in the RL log.

19:38:23:028 | MD |      INFO  | +0     | LEDBlinky - Started, sending mode START
19:38:23:028 | MD |      INFO  | +0     | Run - Running: M:\EDS\LEDBlinky.exe "joust" "MAME"
19:38:23:207 | MD |      INFO  | +187   | LEDBlinky - Ended
19:38:44:693 | MD |      INFO  | +0     | LEDBlinky - Started, sending mode END
19:38:44:737 | MD |      INFO  | +46    | LEDBlinky - Ended

That's still not displaying a marquee the way I had EDS setup because I usually send parameters like "1 joust MAME" to load and "2 joust MAME" to unload.

well rl doesnt send the event like its suppose to but there is a way around it

a sent cli should look like this "M:\EDS\LEDBlinky.exe" 3 "joust" "MAME"

a sent cli from RL look like this "M:\EDS\LEDBlinky.exe" "joust" "MAME"

a cli sent to LEDBlinky without a event, leads to no actions taken and the only things that happen is the color/speech ran on display physically on hardware for that individual game

[sevenseal]

one of these event number must be assigned for EDS/LEDBlinky to executes event trigger activity

without a event number given, the programs will wait in standby mode until one given to execute an activity

[Gilrock]

Yep that's how I was expecting RL to work.  Like I said earlier I worked around it with my own functions.

In the directory "M:\RocketLauncher\Lib\User Functions\Emulators" just copy the example file EmulatorName.ahk and change to MAME.ahk and then populate the following 2 functions as follows and it will work.

 

	PreLaunch() {
		Global dbName,systemName,romName
		RLLog.Info(A_ThisFunc . " - Starting")
		RLLog.Info(A_ThisFunc . " - Starting HyperMarquee - ROM: " . romName )
		hyperMQ := new Process("M:\EDS\LEDBlinky.exe")
		hyperMQ.Run("1 " . romName . " MAME")
		RLLog.Info(A_ThisFunc . " - Ending")
	}

	; This function gets ran after the module thread ends and before RL exits
	PostExit() {
		Global dbName,systemName
		RLLog.Info(A_ThisFunc . " - Starting")
		RLLog.Info(A_ThisFunc . " - Closing HyperMarquee")
		hyperMQ := new Process("M:\EDS\LEDBlinky.exe")
		hyperMQ.Run("2 " . romName . " MAME")
		RLLog.Info(A_ThisFunc . " - Ending")
	}

 

[ninja2bceen]

 

 

[agent327]

Hi all,

Help needed here! Hypermarquee with EDS is so much fun but I experience a problem when a movie (.mp4) kicks in. It plays very nice but stops at the end. I'm using the suggested VLC version. When I play the clip directly within VLC everthing works out (it automatically loops, when the loopcycle button is activated). I tried to find the answer on the forum. No luck yet. Running W10, GTX660ti, 8gb memory. I also tried different event (stop) numbers, but still every movieclip stops and the end and does not reloop. Please help! Thanks in advance.

[rafaello28]

Hi,

I got my Hypermarquee running but it won't remember where it was before (on my 2nd screen). 

Does anybody have any suggestions on how i can make it stay on the 2nd screen?

[DarrenBailey]

Hello all,

I am just finishing up my cabinet build and had HyperMaquee working perfectly for me until I set up my LEDBlinky. Now I have LEDBlinky working well with Hyperspin, but my HyperMaquee is now only displaying a marquee image for EVERY SECOND game/console selection as I scroll through.

Scroll to a game, it displays, scroll to the next game, it goes blank, repeat.  

In a lovely plot twist, when Hyperspin goes into attract mode and auto selects randomly, the marquee image displays every time. Only when I am manually scrolling through does it have the on-off-on-off problem. 

All of my issues up to now I have been able to handle myself through finding similar issues in the forums from the rest of you wonderful contributors. This time I just can’t find anything that might explain it  I have been fiddling with the settings unsuccessfully for weeks! 

Help is much appreciated!

[agent327]

What helped me solving similair problems was to install a previous version of E.D.S.  I have a older version of E.D.S running with the latest Hypermarquee. Hopefully this will work out for you as well. Still struggeling with relooping my mp4's....help is still needed!
Thanks Antos for a great piece of software!!

[Antos]

1 hour ago, agent327 said:

What helped me solving similair problems was to install a previous version of E.D.S.  I have a older version of E.D.S running with the latest Hypermarquee. Hopefully this will work out for you as well. Still struggeling with relooping my mp4's....help is still needed!
Thanks Antos for a great piece of software!!

Thanks. I did not add a function to loop a video within HM (sorry). Unless someone found a claver way to do it, this is not supported. I am not developing on HM anymore, but the good news is that I am working on a completely new software, which will include video looping and will replace HM and many more. Thought, it will not be released anytime soon.