We have an auto-claim and auto-submit feature in Account Menu > Settings > Playing Preferences. If you set auto-claim, when you play a game with the app and there is only one player on it, it will claim player 1. With auto-submit, when you finish a game, it will automatically save it to the leaderboard.

The app must be open for this automation to work, though. The good news is we're moving auto-submit to the background so the phone can be locked and it will still work (in coming release). However, auto-claim is a form of authentication, so we need to know you're physically there, etc, so the app should be open.

Another feature coming in a release soon is Hog Mode, where you can turn auto-claim and auto-submit on for machines you own in a venue you own, which you turn on once when you press a special button at the start of a game. As long as games are less than 5 minutes apart, it will auto-claim and auto-submit for that machine. If you walk away and grab a beer and come back, it's like a kill switch, Hog Mode needs to be re-activated. This feature does auto-claim in the background, so the phone can go back in your pocket!

This is designed for home use, obviously.

The key to Scorbit is that your scores, both live and final, live outside the machine in the cloud and are assigned to your identity as and after you play.

There are a number of things that happen as a result of that, and we're only getting started. Yes, leaderboards both on and off the game, both global and local, start to get a lot more fun than a high score list on your own machine. You can create leaderboards with https://vision.scorbit.io which are based on different criteria, like time, or specific combinations of machines or people.

You can also challenge friends and have little mini-tournaments, though that's beta and we'll get more of these features out soon.

Another benefit is tournaments and streaming, integrating the live and final scores into other software like OBS and MatchPlay.

The app is in it's very early stages, there is a ton of work going on to make it more valuable, including better auto-claiming of player slots and auto-submission of scores (which are available in Settings > User Preferences but are improving soon).

I really like this answer JDHHoover because it illustrates an important point here: There isn't just one pinball community. I'll be honest, I kind of suck at pinball. However, I like to play certain others and keep tabs on that, versus "best of all time." I also want to be notified when certain friends achieve things or beat scores of mine...and other people honestly are so much better than me I don't really pay attention. Scorbit is oriented around creating value between these different groupings of people and making the whole thing more fun. It will take time though!

Quick Scorbit app update: v1.0.24 Release

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In addition to many bug fixes, two important feature changes:

1. Any leaderboard created with ScorbitVision will now appear in the Waiting to Start game session screens (and leaderboard viewing screens) if they are associated with the machine you're viewing, public, and created/owned by the person who owns the machine. For example, you could create a leaderboard for a machine specific to your local pinball league for a machine, make it public, and now anyone playing will see that leaderboard in the carousel while waiting to play.

2. If you open the app or return to the home screen from within a venue and have location set up properly, the app will launch with the machine list for that venue. This is particularly useful for home users which are always in the same venue (their house) and want to skip the venue list. There will be more controls over the venues and venue listing in the next release.

v1.0.24 Release Notes:

-Various performance improvements and bug fixes
-Corrects Android WiFi pairing bug for some OS/hardware combinations
-App will now launch inside a venue if you're standing in it by default.
-Tapping machine title leaderboard icons now takes you to larger leaderboard view.
-Added public custom leaderboards from ScorbitVision to game screens (useful for pinball leagues!)
-Fixed a pairing bug that caused install to get stuck
-Fixed searching for venues with apostrophes

Apologies... Apple is finishing the review and it should be out shortly. Android released.

Thanks and yes, we're only just barely getting started. The app does now have the ability to allow local leaderboards, combined leaderboards, league-based leaderboards (people), rolling number of days, last calendar...It's pretty powerful. If you create it on ScorbitVision, make it public, it will display now on the app in the game session Waiting for Leaderboard screens.

Oh and 1.0.24 just (finally) was pushed on on the Apple store if you were waiting...Had a little blip and I now know never to mention Android in Apple release notes.

Wonka fans! Excited to announce an update to the Scorbit app, v1.0.25, and a major uplift to ScorbitVision! This includes new leaderboards, new app features, and more.

Details in the Scorbit thread:

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/scorbit-official-thread/page/5#post-6228910

Hey Wonka folks. Just FYI, we've posted an instructional video on how to use the various features of ScorbitVision.

This outlines using Scorbit for Scoreboards, Leaderboards, Comboboards, Slideshows and Streamboards.

More info in this post:

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/scorbit-official-thread/page/5#post-6252475

Scorbit works on both beta and release.

Happy to announce Scorbit v1.1.0 today:

https://scorbit.io/major-app-update-scorbit-version-1-1-is-here/

Scorbit just released Achievements with JJP, Starting with Wonka!

Video:

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/scorbit-official-thread/page/6#post-6513731

It is an online update to the game code, yes. It's strongly recommended that you be on fairly recent code prior to doing online updates, such as 2.0. The traditional method of USB also works.

To update my Wonka took about 45 seconds.

Yeah, I think as a general rule, people should know we use the Scorbit Profile display name as the preference for these things. If that's blank, we go to initials. If that's blank, username.

We're "Scorbit" by the way, but we're not picky. Until we get this fixed, you can call us SCO...LOL.

I'll be honest, I am not entirely sure the initials field is used by JJP! I will find out today and we can fix this. Sorry about that!

That sounds like a bug as well. I'll bring it to JJP!

Hey NightTrain no worries. Here is the deal with venues:

If you go to the account menu (upper right) and select "My Venues," it should appear as a list of venues you own (i.e. "NightTrain’s Lair"). If you press the name, it should take you into that venue, and let you select machines (or add them) and people that are allowed to access your venue.

You can also go to My Machines, which just is a raw list of all the machines you have added to Scorbit (note that you don't need to have Scorbit installed to do that, you can post scores manually as well). We are considering removing the My Machines option because it's confusing...It's mostly there for operators and fleet management because of the active/inactive and alert settings.

If you go to your PROFILE (which is in the upper right menu, PROFILE), you'll see three feeds: Scores, Achievements, and Challenges.

If you click on Achievements, you see the most recent first in that order.

If you click on the "STATS" button near your avatar, it takes you to a different screen. There are two tabs here: Stats (like your vitals, IFPA ranking, etc) and on the right is Machines.

Click on machine, choose which machine you care about at the moment, and then it gives you the Achievements and Scores for that machine.

We have users with hundreds of machines of scores, so we put that search in front of it so you have to choose a machine first. We aren't entirely satisfied with that UI but we're working on it.

Let me know if this answers your questions, and if you have ideas!

I confirmed, it's not being used, and so we'll add it. It will take a little time but we'll get it into the next release. Sorry about that!

That is absolutely coming in a near-term release. The way to think of Scorbit is there are different contexts:

-Playing context, which is the center tab (big S) which is all about finding machines and playing them.

-Player/social context, which is all about other users you follow. That's the lower right tab, and profiles. Another way to think about it is seeing Scorbit through the lens of users.

-Machine context, which is finding machines, checking out tips for playing them, seeing what the main leaderboards say, and achievements you can earn.

We have 2 out of 3 finished, as we've been focused on the first two. The lower left tab (the pinball machine) is meant to be the machine context, and you'll have that soon.

Meanwhile you can certainly find machines and click on the Leaderboard (three lines/list icon) on any machine screen and browse the leaderboards for that machine, including top scores.

Stay tuned on that.

I've reported the bug to JJP. They will take it from here on that one.

One common issue we see is if network time isn't set right. Go into the menu and check the time and see if it looks accurate, and your time zone is set. If not, set the time zone, set the time to manual, save and exit, and then set it to network time again, and it should sync up.

When you make that and save, go back to this menu again and set back to network time, and see if the lower right syncs up.

I think the time in the upper left is UTC, and the time in the lower right is adjusted for time zone.

Oh! Let's start with that. If you go to the menu/utilities menu/network settings, can you show us the error you get?

Not a problem. However I'll just point out in the photos you posted, that was a wifi issue that sometimes is easy to fix (password mismatch, or sometimes incompatible local wifi access point). I've found that the JJP games do a really good job of connecting to wifi though (and we have some experience with Scorbitrons).

Hey folks, just a reminder:

Using Scorbit is free for JJP games, and always has. There is no monthly fee for using it. That is only when you buy our hardware for other games.

I've been reading some posts around that seems to be confused about that... I just wanted to make sure folks understood this.

Hey there. 9 times out of 10 this issue is caused by the Wonka machine not having the right time/date set properly. So first thing I'd like you to look at is if in the network settings/etc on the game, if the time zone is set and the time looks right to you in the lower right of the menu screen.

Assuming that is all correct, please DM me a photo of the QR code that is showed on the Scorbit menu screen and I'll take a look directly.

Also if you want to chat with me real-time as you troubleshoot, you can reach me on the discord server:

https://discord.gg/FEE7KYbQQY

Sometimes it's a little easier to troubleshoot that way!

For the record, this turned out to be an easy fix.

You'll find two types of QR codes on a JJP game:

Navigational QR: Visible in attract mode, or at the beginning of Ball 1 until you launch, which navigates your app to the game and claims the available player slot.

Pairing QR: Only visible in the Scorbit menu before you enable Scorbit the first time. Once you've done this, it changes to a Navigational QR.

You can also view/print the navigational QR from the app, and put it on the game or on the lockdown bar, for example, and it makes scanning/claiming player slots pretty slick.

Well, hey, not always... I prefer the "undersell and over-deliver" method.

Extender by the coin box. I think any work though.

Yes it is, as long as your son is registered and has his own account on Scorbit with the app.

Unfortunately, it's not possible to switch back and forth easily by logging out and in, so he will need access to another running app.

One important note: If you create a venue that is set to PRIVATE, you will need to go to My Venues > [Venue Name] and add to the PLAYERS section all the users you wish to be able to post scores/claim slots on the game you're playing.

We are working on an override to this permissions so that if you use QR codes it just "works," or within a certain distance of the venue. This is so people's venues do not show up on everyone's app when browsing unless desired.

Just a "pop" of the amp turning on.

No, in fact, for a multiplayer game, I suggest both of you open the app, hit the big S on the bottom, click on your venue, click on the machine (Wonka), and then when it says "Waiting to Start..." go ahead and start the game for two player. You'll see two "Player 1... Player 2" slots there.

One of you taps player 1, it becomes that player, the other taps player 2.

Then when the game is over, you can save to leaderboard if you like.

Scanning the QR will automatically do everything I just said, but your mileage may vary depending on the OS (Android/iOS). It should work from inside the app (QR scanner in upper right of the app) or outside the app (generally your camera application).

Let me know how it goes!

Make sure you go to My Venues, click on your venue, and add your son's user to the venue list. (If your venue is private.)

Strange, can you send me your Scorbit username, and I'll look it up?

That appears to be the *venue* name, not the username. What user name? I see one on there named wal.

I see the game (Wonka) in the venue (sirlonzelot), owned by a user (wal). The venue is set to private, so unless user wal adds other users, you can't see the machine (or the venue). I hope that makes sense.

Ok sirlonzelot have no fear!

There are many ways to do the same thing, and we're here to help.

On My Venues there, click on the word "sirlonzelot."

Then in the People tab that appears, add users (anyone you want. Add "jay" while you're at it. Then I can spy on you.)

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Once you've done that, any users you add will see you in the Play tab (the big S on the bottom of the screen).

We do have an instruction sheet, but it's way out of date, as we've added 100 features since then:

https://support.scorbit.io/hc/en-us/articles/360059013733-Jersey-Jack-Pinball-Scorbit-Players-Guide

We will update it again soon! Meanwhile, feel free also to visit our Discord channel here:

https://discord.gg/FEE7KYbQQY

We'll get you figured out. Also we'll be releasing some videos on how to use the app soon.

-Jay

First, two documents:

How to activate:

https://support.scorbit.io/hc/en-us/articles/360056606854-Activating-a-Jersey-Jack-Pinball-Machine-on-the-Scorbit-Platform

How to use it (outdated but will give you the general overview):

https://support.scorbit.io/hc/en-us/articles/360059013733-Jersey-Jack-Pinball-Scorbit-Players-Guide

For the benefit of the thread:

When you download Scorbit (no "e" in Scorbit btw, common misunderstanding), you first register/log in.

Next, you go to the Scorbit menu on Wonka (Utilities > Scorbit)

Next, you scan the QR code.

It will prompt you to create a venue. Do that. Please put at a minimum your postal code, city, and country. However, if you put your address, the GPS elements of the app will be more precise in showing you other venues and helping the app know where it is located. Your information is never visible to others or shared if you do choose to put it in. Also, you choose "pubic or private." Public means your venue (your home) will show up on people's apps when they scan the area (with no address listed). This is good for an arcade or bar. Private means your venue will not show up on people's apps when they scan the area. Either way your scores are always public.

Next, it will prompt you to "create" a machine representing Wonka in our Internet world. Do that.

Now it will pair them together.

Next, when you want to play, hit the big S in the middle of the bottom of the app. Find the game. Tap on the game, and it will say "Waiting to Start."

For now on, when you hit start/etc, the game will be visible on the app. Press Player # and you will "claim" that player slot for that game. After the game, you can save your score to the local (machine) leaderboard and global leaderboard.

You can also automate a lot of this in the Account Menu > Settings > Playing Preferences and Viewing Preferences.

However, the BEST way to learn all this is to play, and to read the Scorbit Official Thread here: https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/scorbit-official-thread

Thanks!

Right now, the Machines tab has not been released (lower left) so the feature of looking at all the achievements regardless of what you've already earned isn't quite live yet. It will be in a couple releases from now though.

HOWEVER, if you click on Account Menu > Profile > Stats and then search for the machine you want, you'll find that we include all achievements for each achievement group you've earned any achievements within.

In other words, every achievement is part of a group (even if it's only one) with between one and possibly any number of levels. Once you get the lowest level of that achievement group, you can see all those achievements listed. For Jersey Jack, they like to hide the name of the achievement but tell you how to get it. If you click on any of those achievements (darker in color) they will say ?????? for the name, but it will describe was is required.

Take a look at those screens as a start. We will be improving all the achievement-related lists and UI soon.

Oh come on daveyvandy ... I think my highest score ever was 4.5M, but I'll give it a shot...I mean, 65M?!?! HOW???

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I was really impressed with myself getting above 4M yesterday. I'm just too distracted, because I'm constantly checking if the achievements and score updates look right.

For those Wonka fans who use Scorbit, we're pleased to announce that Scorbit v1.2 is here, with some major changes to challenges and playing flow.

Check out the details in the Scorbit thread here:

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/scorbit-official-thread/page/11#post-6788938

Sorry about that. It's clearly a bug! We'll add it to the list.

Have I mentioned...

Scorbit v1.3.0 is up:

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/scorbit-official-thread/page/15#post-7358304

Update for Scorbit users on JJP machines:

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/scorbit-official-thread/page/15#post-7459272

Well, unless you ask us to activate you and keep the code at Scorbit versions, that is. We never shut it off, after all.