light_player:

Config file section

Valid in machine config files YES
Valid in mode config files YES

Note

This section can also be used in a show file in the lights: section of a step.

The light_player: section of your config is where you can control lights in config or shows. Example in config:

light_player:
  some_event:
    led1:
      color: red
      fade: 200ms
    led2:
      color: ff0000
      fade: 2000ms
This example is tested to be valid MPF config. However, it is not integration tested.
light_player:
  some_event:
    led1:
      color: red
      fade: 200ms
    led2:
      color: ff0000
      fade: 2000ms

shows:
  rainbow:
    - lights:
        (leds): red
    - lights:
        (leds): orange
    - lights:
        (leds): yellow
    - lights:
        (leds): green
    - lights:
        (leds): blue
    - lights:
        (leds): purple
This example is tested to be valid MPF config. However, it is not integration tested.
shows:
  rainbow:
    - lights:
        (leds): red
    - lights:
        (leds): orange
    - lights:
        (leds): yellow
    - lights:
        (leds): green
    - lights:
        (leds): blue
    - lights:
        (leds): purple

Optional settings

The following sections are optional in the light_player: section of your config. (If you don’t include them, the default will be used).

color:

Single value, type: string. Default: white

Set a color to this light. Color values may be a hex string (e.g. 22FFCC), a list of RGB values (e.g. [50, 128, 206]), a color name (e.g. turquoise), or a brightness value (i.e. AA or 120). MPF knows 140+ standard web color names, and you can define your own custom colors in the named_colors: section of your config. If you use brightness on an RGB light MPF will use the brightness for every channel. For instance brigness AA will result in color AAAAAA.

There is a special color stop which will remove the current light entry from the light stack and the current show will become transparent to underlying shows as if the light has never been used in this show.

fade:

Single value, type: ms_or_token. Defaults to empty.

Time to fade this light in ms. Use this to achieve smooth transitions between colors.

key:

Single value, type string.

Like other players, a playing show can be given a unique key to identify it. When stopping a show, it should be stopped by its key name rather than the show name.

This allows the playback of multiple copies of the same show with different keys, so one instance of the show can be stopped while the others continue.

priority:

Single value, type: int_or_token. Default: 0

Relative priority of this entry in the light stack.