Issues with Calling Show Player in Python

[cloudjor]

Hi All,

I'm running into an issue and I don't seem to be able to fix it. My Pinn game is very procedural and because of this I do most of the coding in Python itself.

In this particular case I'm trying to get the show player to play a light show. but pending on a selection in the game it is using a different light or color. I want to do it in python because otherwise I need to add hundreds of events, which I wonder what that will do to the performance.

Most of the objects I have been able to trace back and I'm able to launch my lightshows via python. However I'm not able to stop them. and I do get this warning
2023-08-26 18:25:16,465 : WARNING : show_player : Config player show_player is missing context effect_controlled_friend

In the attachment I added a video, the purple blinking light should be turned off when moving to the next light. but that doesn't happen.

The problem is that I can't trace back the issue, I gave it a key, and gave it context, but for some reason it still doesn't have context when I try.

Code looks like this:

def light_play_show(self, light: str, color_id: str, action="play", **kwargs):
        led = NativeTypeTemplate(value=light, machine=self.machine)
        color = NativeTypeTemplate(value=color_id, machine=self.machine)
        self.settings = self.get_show_settings(led, color, action)
        self.machine.show_player.play(settings=self.settings, context="effect_controlled_friend", calling_context=None)

def get_show_settings(self, led, color, action="play", **kwargs):
        
        settings = {
            self.condition: {
                "action": action,
                "key": "effect_controlled_friend",
                "priority": 5000,
                "block_queue": False,
                "start_step": self.start_step,
                "speed": "1.0",
                "loops": "-1",
                "start_running": self.start_step,
                "sync_ms": None,
                "manual_advance": False,
                "events_when_played": [],
                "events_when_stopped": [],
                "events_when_looped": [],
                "events_when_paused": [],
                "events_when_resumed": [],
                "events_when_advanced": [],
                "events_when_stepped_back": [],
                "events_when_updated": [],
                "events_when_completed": [],
                "show_tokens": {
                    "led": led,
                    "color1": color
                }

            }}
        return settings

I made a version (not procedural) in YAML to check if there is a difference between the context and key. compared to calling it manually via python. but everything that I print looks exactly the same.

show_player:
  ball_started:
    ls_controlled_friend:
      action: play
      key: effect_controlled_friend
      priority: 5000
      show_tokens:
        color1: purple
        led: l_objective_hide_target_h

  s_left_flipper_active:
    ls_controlled_friend:
      action: stop
      key: effect_controlled_friend

If any of the developers has any idea where I'm going wrong I would gladly hear it.
I have done similar things with widgets and that works perfectly, especially since that works with the given key. Which doesn't seem to be the case with shows...

2023-08-26.18-45-37.mp4

Best regards,
Jordy de Lat