When I install mine in the coin door today I will post pictures of how it looks!

FYI for anyone that has a 3d printer: https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/3d-printing-sharing-thread-lets-better-the-hobby/page/32#post-6712543

I got my final Insider Connected kit today (Thanks Zach) and installed it on the Jurassic Park coin door with one of my kits.
https://pinside.com/pinball/market/shops/1295-gotfrogs/05569-stern-insider-connected-qr-code-reader-coin-door-mount

I think it looks great and I get to keep the artwork on the apron!

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#stern-stranger-things-premium owners if you have the UV Kit installed - you can not install the premium insider connect kit. The problem is the UV board does not give you enough clearance to get the insider connected over the screw to the apron. See the pics for specifics - even the plastic art has a cutout to deal with this! This is also consistent with what is said by stern marketing materials that stranger things with UV will not work.

Will be talking to ZMeny at flipnout about options to see if can find out from stern the best approach
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Get the coin door adapter?

Agreed and have one on order, but I have a color matched coin door so a coin door so would love not to do that but will if needed. Stern really ought to have a solution too.

Now hearing on the stranger things forum that the premium kits are designed to go where the right instruction card goes and there are holes ready for it. Try it over the weekend.

This is all that needs to be said. Shouldn’t need to depend on a third party product to solve a Stern product issue

If ya’ll would lift the right hand card off the apron you will see the insider connected hole. They do have a solution they just have not yet produced that particular plate. they are coming.

They do have a solution, the apron already has a hole in it.

You can see the hole under where the right insruction card goes in the pics that were just shown. You can also see the mounting studs around the hole.

You should be able to just unscrew the QR scanner from the triangular piece it is on now an move it to the hole under the instruction card.

If you don’t want to put in the apron, you can install in the bill collector knockout in the coin door. I did it myself but one of our fellow pinsiders is making a kit. More info in my post in the StrTh club thread.

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Mine works fine with the IC kit, though I would be more than happy to sell you a coin door mounting kit!

See pictures here:
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/stern-insider-connected/page/46#post-6695715

I'm thinking about getting IC for TMNT and AIQ now that there is the sweet coin door mod. 1 person in the TMNT owners thread said he has glitches on a few of the achievements where they won't register. Has anyone else experienced achievement glitches with either TMNT or AIQ?

I finally got my 2 Insider Connected kits this week. I installed one in Maiden last night and played one game successfully. Went to play it now and it doesn't stay lit up. It blinks a couple times at startup, but then stays dark. I swapped the cable, no dice.

I installed the 2nd kit in JP, that seems to work fine. I connected the JP kit to Maiden and it worked, same cable. So I think my node boards are fine and my cable is fine. Seems like I have a faulty IC unit. Any suggestions before I reach out to Stern?

I received the file for a coin door mount for the qr reader from mattosborn and made some modifications in order to accommodate a 4-way manual network switch. I've never worked with 3d printer files or anything before but I did my best to make something functional and plan on making additional changes, getting it re-printed, sanding it, and painting it with a hammered black spray paint to better match the coin door. I'm very happy with the result and it is certainly better than opening the coin door to change which game is "connected." Again, huge shout out to mattosborn for sharing his work. I'd also like to give another shoutout to KingVidiot for his explanation of how to configure a network switch to utilize a single qr reader between multiple machines.

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My Godzilla has the same issue. It will scan but the surround light doesn’t work. Same thing on start up… it will blink a couple of times but that’s it.

I tried to switch my Godzilla LE to a wired Ethernet connection. I checked all of the connections, but when trying to get the machine online in the network wired setting it never connects. Has anyone else been successful in getting their Godzilla online with a wired connection?

I did get my AIQ online through wired and it is way better than wireless.

Sorry

Hopefully you attached the ethernet to the connection on the top of the main board? The ones on the bottom are for Stern node boards. AIQ and Godzilla should behave exactly the same. Something must be different in your setup or software settings.

As many others have said, the premium UV apron works fine with IC. Here is a pic of it installed on my Premium apron.

I do like the coin door option with that ability to have pinball life’s volume control though.

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Interesting, so mine is working, just not well. I printed a piece of paper with the QR code on it so I didn't have to take my phone out every time. I must have gotten lucky during the setup, maybe I had my flashlight on or something. I cannot get the paper to scan again. It scans fine with the phone though, probably because of the bright screen.

Did you reach out to Stern or whoever you bought it from?

No but I guess I should. At first I thought it was a setting I was missing. In a lit room a piece of paper will work. But at night I use my phone. I actually don’t like the light so I am torn.

Is it on regular paper or cardstock? I had printed mine originally on regular and it had random scanning issues b/c of how some of the light shines through it and I guess fudges up the code. Reprinted it in cardstock and zero issues since.

Just read higher up that the light is having problems, nvm my previous post

When I hooked my AIQ, JP3, and EHOH up to use my GZ LE QR reader, for some reason my EHOH wouldn't find the Ethernet connection. AIQ and JP3 found the wired connection instantly. So I took the Wifi dongle out of GZ and used it in EHOH and plugged Ethernet into GZ. EHOH found the Wifi right away. GZ didn't find the Ethernet right away, but after a couple tries restarting it did find it.

Sounds like your GZ is having a similar issue as my EHOH, and I wasn't able to figure out why ethernet wasn't working for that one.

Thanks to the 3d printing forum and the guys sharing their projects, got my qr set up on AIQ. Quick setup and my wife is surprised how much she likes tracking her progress in the game. I'll make one unique to the game by adding lit gems or something above the reader. Still need to make small size adjustments on the raised part to make it closer to 100% flush.

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For those who have these on route is your time incorrect as well? My midnight is set for 7pm...

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hopefully Stern have some artwork to put around that as it looks terrible as is.

I'm really hoping that Stern make logging into the game a lot better in their app. The scanning of QR codes whilst for the minority without smartphones is a good solution its not the best experience in my view.

Neil.

That’s awesome, I would be interested in that .stl if you’re sharing!

Could you take a pic with the coin door open to show how that all lines up? Any issues there?

Here's a pic of inside the coin door. It actually worked out a lot cleaner than I expected. Each of the rightmost cat5 cables run to a connector in the head of each of my games.

I'll gladly share the .stl, but I just have a couple of tweaks I'd like to make and test for a "final" version before I do that.

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Nice work, thanks for your work and sharing the file!

Same with me. Mine hasn't worked since I got it new in box. I didn't know it was supposed to light up til a buddy told me it should.
Reset all the cables but the light just goes on for a sec then turns off.... what's the deal?

It's regular paper and it works great on the glass of my Godzilla. Probably because it's a large flat surface.

I reached out to my distributor and Stern got back to him quickly. They want the scanner back so they can see what is failing. Sounds like it's a common issue.

I have one that never works and one that is flaky. Both flash during the boot cycles so I know the lights work. Wondering if there is some sort of firmware bug going on…….

Apologies if this has been asked but I didn't find it on searching the thread. Can you change your location name from <HANDLE>'s gameroom if you're a home user?

not yet but I believe this is coming soon.

Any intel on when the App will be developed. The browser site is kinda clunky... It was kinda distracting to hear the achievements pop up; but I'm getting used to it... def adds a lot & I feel it will help newer people learn the rules.

Stern has said nothing but they had a lot of stuff planned for 2022...

Great work sir. Glad to see you want to share your file in order to give something to the community.

But this is a super clean solution, i think it's even better than mounting in to the apron.

I know a few people have taken different approaches to the annoyance of pulling up your QR code on your phone each time - I opted for printing badges for me and my wife to match our Insider profiles - they read immediately and easy to hang from a lanyard next to the machine

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I just laminated mine.

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Have they said if they are going to be selling kits without the new apron? If I end up getting one it's not going on the apron anyways so I would prefer just the hardware without it.

Stern hasn’t announced anything other than Pro or Premium kits with replacement aprons.

I got a pro kit and a premium. One had an apron, one did not. Same price.

Dang okay so even if it's without the apron it's still $200 anyways huh.

So: always buy the pro kit, sell the apron.

(Yeah I know, not all prems are able to mount the reader on the current apron)