Seem to have lost my front cabinet lamps in the move to the 3.0 tool

[clemon79]

I just noticed this recently and then got caught up in fixing other problems and so haven't had the chance to really dive into it until just now, but it seems that when we transferred over to the DOF 3.0 tool, I lost my front lamps (my Launch Ball, Start, Extra Ball, Back, and my two Coin lamps) and my rumble motor. The lamps run off of a CSD Pinscape Expansion board, and the motor runs off of the main CSD Pinscape board.

 

The Pinscape config tool turns them all on and off just fine, so there's no issue there. My HD matrix and LED strips (through a WS2812) all work fine, so DOF is clearly working. I'm trying to reconfigure these and not sure where I'm going wrong. Could use a little help, please and thank you!

 

EDIT: Let me add something here: The front lamps and shaker motor have NEVER been defined in my cabinet.xml, and I have NEVER understood why I didn't need to do this. Up until now they have Just Worked. My cabinet.xml has only had the definitions for the aforementioned matrix and side LED strips. I feel like this could be part of the puzzle. Imma take a little look at the Bible on these but I'm not too terribly hopeful and I may need a little help getting these defined (although, really, I know what port they are on and that they all accept a value between 0 and 255 so I think it ought to be easy) so if anyone has a definition template for Shaker Motor and or Basic Lamp it would be appreciated.

Edited June 29, 2025 by clemon79
New info

[clemon79]

And it turns out here I had fallen victim to the bug that was fixed in one of the R3++ betas where if you update to the latest PinScape firmware, DOF forgets how to find it. Did what I should have done for a while: updated to the newest unified (install both 32- and 64-bit in one single path) DOF beta, and now everything is working again. Yay!

 

(Also, I understand why the shaker and lamps worked without being defined in cabinet.xml: turns out you need to tell DOF how to deal with a Teensy, but it can figure out a PinScape and/or other boards all by itself. When it can find them. :))

Edited June 30, 2025 by clemon79