sound.md

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Configuring Sound in LISY

Configuring Sound in LISY

Related Config File Sections:

• hardware_sound_systems:
• hardware_sound_player:

With LISY your can use the sound card of your original game including all the sounds of your game.

!!! note

You can alternatively use the
[built-in MPF sound system](../../mc/sound/index.md)
which supports more modern audio features. In that case you need to
connect the sound card of your PC to the audio amp of your machine (not
covered here).

You can configure the external LISY hardware sound interface like this:

hardware_sound_systems:
  default:
    label: LISY

Built-in sounds

Any built-in sounds can be played using their number in the original game:

#! hardware_sound_systems:
#!   default:
#!     label: LISY
hardware_sound_player:
  some_event_to_play_sound2:
    2:
      action: play
  some_event_to_stop_any_playing_sound: stop

Whatever those sounds loop or do not depends on the sound and the game. In this case the event some_event_to_play_sound2 will play the sound number 2. The event some_event_to_stop_any_playing_sound will stop any sound.

Additional sounds

You can play additional sounds by placing mp3 files on the SD-card. Soundfiles need to be placed in the mpf config directory on the SD card of the LISY system in the subdirectory hardwaresounds. For LISY1 this is /boot/mpfcfg/LISY1/xxx and for LISY80 this is /boot/mpfcfg/LISY80/xxx (where xxx is the game number set via S2 according to the appendix in the LISY user manual).

#! hardware_sound_systems:
#!   default:
#!     label: LISY
hardware_sound_player:
  play_file:
    "some_file": play_file
  play_file_loop:
    "some_file":
      action: play_file
      platform_options:
        loop: true
        no_cache: false

Text-to-speech

LISY can also do text-to-speech:

#! hardware_sound_systems:
#!   default:
#!     label: LISY
hardware_sound_player:
  event_to_play_text:
    text:
      action: text_to_speech
      value: "Hello MPF"
      platform_options:
        loop: false
        no_cache: true

Changing volume

Similarly, you can change volume:

#! hardware_sound_systems:
#!   default:
#!     label: LISY
hardware_sound_player:
  event_to_set_volume_to_05:
    set_volume:
      action: set_volume
      value: 0.5
  increase_volume:
    increase_volume:
      action: increase_volume
      value: 0.1
  decrease_volume:
    decrease_volume:
      action: decrease_volume
      value: 0.1

Sounds in a show

You can also use any of the actions above in a show instead of in a standalone Hardware Sound player:

#! hardware_sound_systems:
#!   default:
#!     label: LISY
##! show: test
- hardware_sounds:
    text:
      action: text_to_speech
      value: "Hello MPF"
      platform_options:
        loop: false
        no_cache: true
  duration: 2s

What if it did not work?

Have a look at our LISY troubleshooting guide.