PinCab Management

[MrGrynch]

I find myself bouncing back and forth between my pincab and my desktop PC a lot while configuring and tweaking my tables.  For some things, I find it too cumbersome to work directly at the table, but then  I also get tired of going back and forth all the time.   I use Remote Desktop, which helps a bit.  I was curious how some of you guys manage this?

Thanks for any advice!

 

[Mike_da_Spike]

I use teamviewer, as I can see all my screens and the resolution is exactly how the cabinet will shows it (RDP can set his own resolution and doesn't allign to how I see it on the cabinet). 
I have Teamviewer host on the cab and only setup for local connections, so no internet connections allowed.

Because my TV is 4k, all is small when I quit PinballX.
Exiting PinballX, rotates the screen to portrait mode and set the DPI to 100%

When managing the cab, I have a startup script that is launched with DBM, that will set my screen to landscape mode and 200% DPI.
Launching PinballX set also the cab to portrait mode, but set the DPI to 100% again.

Note :Teamviewer causes a delay with visual pinball 10.7 when opening a table (only when using remote connection)
Depending on the table it can have a delay up to minutes.
But closing my remote session and using the frontend works like a charm

 

There are properly more tools that you can use the manage your cabinet remotely,

[scutters]

I'm a stand at the cab guy for all my table tweaking.

If i'm adding a new table i'll have downloaded all the files i know i'll need on the desktop pc before, but when it comes to changing pov and anything colour /brightness related i think you need to be at the cab. I don't do anything with a remote desktop.

[Mike_da_Spike]

2 hours ago, scutters said:

I'm a stand at the cab guy for all my table tweaking.

If i'm adding a new table i'll have downloaded all the files i know i'll need on the desktop pc before, but when it comes to changing pov and anything colour /brightness related i think you need to be at the cab. I don't do anything with a remote desktop.

Pretty old fashion mate .

I need to say as well : i download all from my main pc, and have a share on my nas called 'exhange'

I mapped this share on the cabinet as well. Pov settings and if table is working, i check behind my pc (remotly), but check dmd, dof, buttons and lut settings, I will standup and walk 2 inches to check on the cabinet.  Lazy ??? No. Just efficiently 

[scutters]

17 minutes ago, Mike_da_Spike said:

Pretty old fashion mate .

That's me!!! 

Maybe i'm more lazy doing it my old school way?, once i'm at the cab tweaking stuff i'm not walking back and forth to use remote desktop too 

I have wildly different colour settings on the desktop and the cab...  desktop is dimmed quite a bit which i find a lot easier on the eyes for anything text related, and the cab playfield screen is a lot brighter with gamma tweaks to get a more 'vivid' effect in game - so remoting might not work too well for LUT's etc in my case anyway.

[Mike_da_Spike]

8 minutes ago, scutters said:

so remoting might not work too well for LUT's etc in my case anyway.

For LUT and other lighting stuff, I still stand out of my chair and also to play a bit for testing.

But still like to remote in, for adding games etc. In the begin I stand at the cab as well, but causes that my back hurts.

[SixOfTwelve]

For what it's worth, I built an AHK script that rotates my playfield to portrait mode when I press a certain key combination and back to landscape when I press another. For some reason, the often-quoted ctrl+alt+arrow keys didn't work for me. I also have a NAS share mapped, since I tend to do my downloading, my frontend graphics/videos and my table sound editing on another computer with a comfortable chair.

And - at least while I'm still in the process of setting everything up -  I have a wooden board wrapped in a bright pink towel that I can place on the playfield without scratching it. It's just the right size for holding my keyboard and mouse. It's a totally ghetto solution, but it works.

Feel free to mock mercilessly.

[MrGrynch]

On 5/6/2022 at 12:50 PM, SixOfTwelve said:

For what it's worth, I built an AHK script that rotates my playfield to portrait mode when I press a certain key combination and back to landscape when I press another. For some reason, the often-quoted ctrl+alt+arrow keys didn't work for me. I also have a NAS share mapped, since I tend to do my downloading, my frontend graphics/videos and my table sound editing on another computer with a comfortable chair.

And - at least while I'm still in the process of setting everything up -  I have a wooden board wrapped in a bright pink towel that I can place on the playfield without scratching it. It's just the right size for holding my keyboard and mouse. It's a totally ghetto solution, but it works.

Feel free to mock mercilessly.

No mocking here!  Thats a cool cabinet.  One of these days, I'm going to build a new control panel for mine to include a spinner and a second stick.  Also going to add a few more buttons including a 2-player start.  Never heard of AHK scripting.   I'll have to look into it.  I created a couple of shortcuts that run MultimonitorTool with different orientations.  I like your idea re:NAS.  I have one that is under-utilized right now that could smooth out my workflow a bit.

Thanks for chiming in!