FanPlugin.Wrapper

3D holografic fan remote controll for virtual pinball

What is this for? The Problem!

I bought a kindly cheap 3D holografic fan from china.

It has a Handy-App for remote controlling it via Wifi.

There is also a Windows App for ending videos for it and controlling it.

But i wanted to control it directly from my virtual pinball cabinet.

The idea ist that if i am going to load up a specific pinball table the fan has to select the corresponding video for the table.

So if you going to load up the table "DarkPrinzess" a topper video is shown on the fan for ambiente purposes.

What does it do?

This small cluecode application is getting a pinball table and is than selection a corresponding pic / vid on the 3d holografic fan.

If you want to see it in action look here = https://youtu.be/gSEaMVhVHcs or here https://youtu.be/rK_Xfbv4QXQ

Or an update video with rom / pup events integration = https://youtu.be/YnqAcIEPP1M

How does it work?

You can add this to your PupPack Folder for VPX. It will then select a specific vid / pic on your fan for this table

The Fan

I bought this device here: [AliExpress Link] (https://de.aliexpress.com/item/4000579865125.html?spm=a2g0s.9042311.0.0.659e4c4dMc6T5K)

(Not available any more with this link)

But it seems kindly generic, so maybe it works also for other models

Original Software for App and Desktop came from here >> https://huangbanjin.gitee.io/bergerh/

Configuring the fan to static ip

this is needed if you want to have still internet for your cab

the fan is pushing a standard gateway to your wlan adapter via dhcp and this is a problem if you do have ethernet or a second wlan adapter up and running for internet acess. we need to get rid of the gateway from the fan

Just disable DHCP on the WLAN Chip and set it to manual

The Fan has the IP = 192.168.4.1

Your WLAN Dongle / Net should have the IP = 192.168.4.2

Your Subnet = 255.255.255.0

Your Subnetmask = Delete everything here

Change your setup accordingly and your internet will run like charm :)

USB Wlan Dongle - Why using a separete WLAN Dongle

The China Fan is quite a cheap product an the software is shit. Since the FAN is propagating a OPEN Wlan you have to connect to, you dont want to have this in yoour private network environment. I bought a cheap usb wlan dongle for my cab windows pc and attaced this dongle exclusivly to the FAN.

Configuration of FAN and Dongle is described below.

My PC will not connect automaticly to the FAN! Help!

Yes, this is happening due to the FAN will propagate a public WLAN. Windows 10 will not connect automaticly to public wlan, even if autoconncet is enabled. See:

Source = https://appuals.com/windows-10-will-not-connect-to-wifi-automatically/

How to sort my files on the SD-Card / Problems with selection of file IDs

The files on the SD card of your fan have to be unique and identified by the program.

To avoid pitfalls, i recomend to go for a strict sort order.

The FAN itself trys to sort the filenames bitwhise and alphabeticly.

To keep a strict order i recommend to use 6 characters with numbers only.

Example = 000001.bin

Trailing zeros are neccassary due to bytewhise comparison.

How to install

Reg DLL

Download the latest DLL File from = https://github.com/buzzibaer/FanPlugin.Wrapper/releases Put it into any folder you like (e.g. c:\FanPlugin)

Open up a cmd in admin mode

find RegAsm.exe from your latest .NET on your Computer

Go into your folder were your dll is. Open up a command shell command and register the DLL like:

''' C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\RegAsm.exe FanPlugin.Wrapper.dll /codebase '''

Install pupscript

Download the Pupscript here = https://github.com/buzzibaer/FanPlugin.Wrapper/blob/main/pupscript/pupscript_js.pup

Put it in your PupPack Root Folder of your choise.

Edit the Script for the bin file you want to select on your fan.

configure evnets for changing videos

Ho to configure events

The easiest way is to have a look into the events from any Puppack. There you can see what is already defined as events. Get your information from there:

If you want to learn more about events of tables, you can always find them in Nailbusters documentation right here = https://www.nailbuster.com/wikipinup/doku.php?id=pup_capture

Problems?

Standalone UI

I made a little Standalone UI for testing the Fan without anything else but just the fan.

Have a look here >> https://github.com/buzzibaer/FanPlugin.Test/releases

With that you can experiment if the funktions work well.

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