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Pinball Leveller Android App

By nottud

9 years ago

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#1 9 years ago

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Hey everyone - as a bit of a hobby with learning to make Android apps, I had a go and produced an Android app to help level up pinballs when setting them up in a new location and I thought I would share it with everyone in case some people might find it useful. (I know someone made an iphone app that does similar) It works by the following:

(1)Placing your phone on the pinball and setting a profile
(2)Placing phone on pinball in new location and trying the centre the X - doing this achieves the set up in the old location.

Press yPos (setting it off) to activate simple horizontal levelling with no need to calibrate to a machine. (You can still calibrate if needed to a flat surface with the set button)

You can turn on voice assistance (Using text to speech) so you can level up without looking at the phone - works for both modes.

You can get the app in the Google play store with the link below. The app is free and there are no adverts/IAP:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nottud.pinballleveller

If you like please leave me some feedback or ideas for possible improvements - I will see what I can do! It would be nice if someone with a pinball machine could let me know if it is any good as I currently live in a shared house and no pinball to try it out with.

#2 9 years ago

JDR

Jdawg4422

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Scottsdale, AZ

12y 42,900 787 6

maybe having it work as a regular level as well would be helpful as well as learning level from different tables.

#3 9 years ago

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nottud

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Thanks for the suggestion - what you want already exists although perhaps not obvious.

Press the yPos button to get a regular level (Horizontal direction only) which you will be able to use without setting it to a pinball machine.

EDIT: Altered main post to make it clearer.

#4 9 years ago

JKR

joelreeves

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Omaha, NE

12y 66,150 950 4

Very cool! thanks for putting this out. Been waiting for an Android option for pin leveling.

#5 9 years ago

LER

Lermods

Lermods Pinball Co.

11y 201K 10,854 58

Cool, thanks.

#6 9 years ago

KAM

kvan99

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Thanks!!

#7 9 years ago

MSG

psd4me

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11y 84,650 1,192

Works on my s3 :Dbut just sits there on my tablet I do have a ? Do you know what the perfect range is in degrees? my phone does tilt while still saying perfect. Thanks. Mike

#8 9 years ago

AND

rygar

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Pyongyang

10y 86,300 709 19

Thank you!

#9 9 years ago

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nottud

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I'll have a look at the code with the sensors to see if I can fix so it will work for more devices such as your tablet.

I'll also have a proper look at range and maybe make it setable by the user. Atm it some arbitary level that "felt about right" - probably some number of radians.

#10 9 years ago

DCK

burningman

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Vero Beach, FL

11y 86,550 3,218 9

thank you for making this for us

#11 9 years ago

ROB

Rferullo

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Nice work. Runs perfect on my Samsung Note 2.

#12 9 years ago

AMK

amkoepfer

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Awesome! Thank you

#13 9 years ago

GAM

GaryMartin

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12y 56,150 642 8 7

Nice utility, thanks!

#14 9 years ago

RED

redman822

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Works great, thanks!

#15 9 years ago

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nottud

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Had a look at the sensor code but I don't see anything wrong it so if it doesn't work then sorry I don't know how to fix it. (Least at the moment...)

Thanks for dl and feedback I appreciate it!

#16 9 years ago

JMS

sudsy7

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Oviedo, FL

10y 51,050 849 13

This is an excellent app - thank you! One minor thing - the speech feature tells you "steeper" when the machine incline is already too steep - that seems backwards to me. The left/right makes sense - if the machine is leaning to the left, it tells you "lean right".

#17 9 years ago

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johninc

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Las Vegas, NV

11y 51,650 934 5

Quoted from sudsy7:
This is an excellent app - thank you! One minor thing - the speech feature tells you "steeper" when the machine incline is already too steep - that seems backwards to me. The left/right makes sense - if the machine is leaning to the left, it tells you "lean right".

1 week later

#18 9 years ago

MOC

master_of_chaos

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Überherrn

11y 50,550 500 51

Hello

Very useful !
But may i suggest to include another option, where you can measure the tilt level (vertical direction) so it would be possible to set up a pinball from the scratch?

Andreas

#19 9 years ago

MOD

modfather

ModFather Pinball Mods

Sunrise, FL

9y 92,900 1,886 8 83

very cool, I just installed

#20 9 years ago

RUS

Applezz

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Essex, MD

9y 16,650 43 1 6

Nice quick test tool. The "steeper" and "flatter" seem to be fine on a calibrated game to get back to your desired settings, but some sort of marker would be useful for a quick dirty angle check. If a calibrated game hits a certain mark, you could assume the uncalibrated game is close.

#21 9 years ago

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AaronGNP

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OP
Quoted from nottud:
If you like please leave me some feedback or ideas for possible improvements - I will see what I can do! It would be nice if someone with a pinball machine could let me know if it is any good as I currently live in a shared house and no pinball to try it out with.

It would be nice if you had an indicator at 6.5 degrees tilt.

#22 9 years ago

VolunteerPin

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Knoxville, TN

11y 88,650 3,977 10 11

Just downloaded it. Hopefully will try it out tonight.

Thanks!

#23 9 years ago

CCD

ReallifePin

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Salt Lake City, UT

11y 61,550 716 6 23

Quoted from AaronGNP:
It would be nice if you had an indicator at 6.5 degrees tilt.

It is a handy app to have. Thanks for putting in the time.

My suggestion is the same as above. I would just like a pre-programmed setting so I can set up a machine that is already off kilter.

#24 9 years ago

ROB

Rferullo

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11y 48,650 529

It is a good app! I also like the suggestions above.

Thanks for your hard work - maybe you could even charge for it someday... If it had all the bells and whistles I would pay a few buck for it.

#25 9 years ago

VolunteerPin

Pinside member

Knoxville, TN

11y 88,650 3,977 10 11

I like the suggestions...kind of like Pin Guy for iPhone...you can set your desired pitch. That would be helpful.

#26 9 years ago

RON

ronlisa

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Odessa, MO

13y 98,800 1,763 25 42

Thanks for sharing . I just downloaded it.

#27 9 years ago

JDR

Jdawg4422

Inactive member

Scottsdale, AZ

12y 42,900 787 6

the level does not work on the galaxy light for some reason? with other apps the level function works perfect but with this app all i can get is a perfect x in the middle even if my phone is turned sideways.

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#28 9 years ago

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nottud

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Working on an update and deciding to redo how profiles are done a bit. Instead of a list of profiles, instead there are a list of gradients which to match ranging from 4° to 8° in increments of 0.5°. You can add more values using the add button. To ensure these gradients can be matched properly there is a calibrate button to allow setting the horizontal and vertical tilt to zero when placed on a flat surface.

As for it not working I don't know why. I used the gravity sensor, maybe some devices don't support it for some reason. Might look into some other sensors as well - there is one for getting the rotation.

EDIT: Update released!

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