Big Box, LEDBlinky, and Pixelcade

[moudrost]

Something has always bothered me and I'm not quite sure if the problem is coming from Big Box, one of the other listed apps, or maybe just is unsupported but hopefully someone knows. As you scroll through Big Box, the Pixelcade updates to show a matching marquee. No problem here. The problem is when BB goes into attract mode. The Pixelcade sticks on whatever last marquee was used. Is it possible to get the Pixelcade to update as Big Box chooses the next game to display in attract mode? I have a feeling its Big Box since the Pixelcade will resume displaying the correct marquee the second you move the joystick and it picks the next game in the list. Anything I can do here?

[kurt-co]

I ran into the same issue and was stuck until I paid for LEDBlinky and came up with a hacky work around. When Big Box starts attract mode it sends the "FE Screen Saver" event to LEDBlinky. You can run an external program when this event happens so here is a work around.

1) Install CURL and EventGhost on your Big Box machine. 

2) In the paid for version of LEDBlink setup the "FE SS" event to run this external command C:\curl\curl.exe "http://localhost:10000?event=updateimg" and run it hidden.

3) In GhostEvent create a macro called updateimg. In the macro create an event called HTTP.event=updateimg. In the same macro add a "wait some time" w/ 15 seconds parameter and emulate Keystrokes {down} action.

The end result is Big Box starts attract mode which sends the FE screen saver signal to LEDBlinky. LEDBlinky uses curl to send a message to EventGhost to run the updateimg macro. This macro waits 15 seconds and then emulates the keyboard down arrow and abra kadabra the pixelcade now appears to be updating with attract mode. I prob forgot some steps in setting up GhostEvent as I originally installed and configured the webserver to allow me to mute and unmute my arcade with my Alexa. Hope this helps!

[moudrost]

Thanks for replying to my very old post. I'm not familiar with EventGhost, but it looks interesting and I'll take a look. Not long after I made my post, Big Box developed an issue on my cabinet where it would crash after around 24 hours running attract mode, so I had to disable attract mode completely and have ignored the other problem your solution seems to solve. It has been some months and a few version of Big Box since then. I should try enabling it again to see if the problem has gone away and I'll try what you outlined. A clean install of Windows and only Big Box / MAME later and it still did the same thing. Appreciate the possible solution.