Display a variable on a (Neo) segment display / Cobra Board

[worldpeace-germany]

Hello,

I am following this https://missionpinball.org/hardware/opp/cobrapin/cobrapin_serial_segment_displays/ guide. Then using a segment_display_player like here https://missionpinball.org/config/segment_display_player/ to display something on the segment. I am using a Cobra board the segment displays from Cobra. The basics are working fine, based on an event I can display a hard coded text like "Hello" on the display.

Now I want to display the current ball, score, etc. on these displays. Now I have two problems:

a) I have an event and based on that event I want to display the variable (ball). I thought instead of the hardcoded text I can use (ball), but that doesn't work.

b) When the score gets increased I believe there is no event. So how can I display the score on these displays?

Thanks!

[BenTripoli]

There is more on this on the google mpf users forum. But this is my code below, show player is used instead of segment player as there is a bug in segment_player.
Below mine will show ball number and 66 credits. It will update your scores etc. Most of the below was posted on the google forum so have a look there if this doesnt help. I basically copied the code and jigged it with my own options and it worked fine.
it seems the formatting is getting removed when I post the below code. If you need anything more or the file itself I can post that.

This is the code from Cobra
https://github.com/cobra18t/CobraPin/blob/main/MPF%20Config/ExampleGames/TagTeam_example.zip

mode:
start_events: ball_starting #
stop_events: game_ended
stop_on_ball_end: false
game_mode: false
priority: 300

show_player:
ball_started:
ballnum:
show_tokens:
txt: "{(current_player.ball):d} 66"
ball_started{player==1 and ball==1}:
p1_score:
show_tokens:
txt: "{(players[0].score):d}"
player_score{player_num==1}:
p1_score:
show_tokens:
txt: "{(players[0].score):d}"
player_score{player_num==2}:
p2_score:
show_tokens:
txt: "{(players[1].score):d}"
player_score{player_num==3}:
p3_score:
show_tokens:
txt: "{(players[2].score):d}"
player_score{player_num==4}:
p4_score:
show_tokens:
txt: "{(players[3].score):d}"

player_added{num==2}:
p2_score:
show_tokens:
txt: " 0"
player_added{num==3}:
p3_score:
show_tokens:
txt: " 0"
player_added{num==4}:
p4_score:
show_tokens:
txt: " 0"

shows:
ballnum:
- duration: -1
segment_displays:
neoSeg4: # ball number and credit seg display
text: (txt)
p1_score:
- duration: -1
segment_displays:
neoSeg0:
text: (txt)
p2_score:
- duration: -1
segment_displays:
neoSeg1:
text: (txt)
p3_score:
- duration: -1
segment_displays:
neoSeg2:
text: (txt)
p4_score:
- duration: -1
segment_displays:
neoSeg3:
text: (txt)

[worldpeace-germany]

Thanks, that solved my problem. My main problem was that the event player_score you are using is not in the Event Reference https://missionpinball.org/events/ I would have expected in there. Anyways, problem solved. I will update the documentation accordingly.