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In supervisor mode, you'll take full control of the pinball: Displays, lamps, and solenoids.
To open the supervisor dialog box, select "Tools->Supervisor..." from the menu bar. Opening the dialog box won't change the current mode, Hence, at the first opening the selected mode is the normal mode. To switch to supervisor mode and get control on all outputs you'll have to click the red button labelled "Super". The led on the top right of the window then turns red, indicating you have the control. At this time, lamps and coils are all turned off for security. The GUI shows in yellow all the outputs that will be activated when you click "Apply" on the corresponding bank or "Apply all" for applying your set-up on all banks.
In parallel, display control is immediately taken over. For example, if your setup for display A is something like "01234...", you'll see display of player 2 displaying 012340.
What we call Display A0..15 and Display B0..15, is actually the internal shift register of the 10788 PPS4 GKPD chip. There is a simple correspondance between the digits position and the corresponding internal value. The figure below gives this exact correspondance.
The configuration management philosophy is comparable to the MS/MC/MR memory of a pocket calculator. By clicking ‘Save’, all the current setpoints (lamps, coils, displays) are saved (like MS) and can be recalled with ‘Recall’ (like MR). They can be deleted with ‘Restore defaults’. This action cannot be undone. All the outputs are immediately reset and the setup erased (like MC). ‘Reset’, on the other hand, sets all the outputs to off, and applies them immediately, but does not affect the memorised setup. this allows you to stop everything in the event of a problem without losing the memorised setup. ‘Reset’ does not modify the memorised setup, which can therefore be recalled with “Recall”.
Restore defaults, Reset: outputs are physically applied immediately at button click.
Recall recalls the memorized setup, but does not apply the outputs. The leds will turn in yellow to indicate this. You'll have to click a bank apply button or 'apply all' to get them physically applied. They will be applied if you modify a single output on the fly from the panel (all bank at once).
If you try to turn a coil on, you'll get a warning message. You can remove this class of messages by ticking the "show no more" checkbox in the alert. You can later reenable them from the menu "View->Rearm warning messages".
Remember that in the "system settings dialog box, you have a checkbox "Unprotect coil channels". If this checkbox is unticked, the system does not tolerate to have any coil on for more than 1 second or so. If this happens, the individual channel is turned of for around 1,5, and so forth as long as the channel is set to on. This is an efficient coil protection. But keep in mind that is might be not enough to save an aging transistor for example.
The previous setup is erased and replaced with default values. Default values are "F" everywhere for the display and they are all outputs off.
Default values are applied to the outputs and displays. The setup is untouched. Recall will reapply them.
With Recall, you applied your previous saved setup.
Save current commands as new setup.
Apply all the current commands.
Close the dialog box. The outputs will stay as they were applied. To get back to normal mode, it is necessary to reopen the dialog box and click "Leave control".
A loss of connection occurs for various reasons. It might be the pinball being powered off. It might be that the access point becomes too far from the device, or that the computer enters sleep mode. That might be due to interferences or many other situations. In the case of a temporary connection loss, WiFlip will notice it. Outputs are frozen in the state as they were just before. When the connection is back again, all the outputs are physically set to off. Those which should be on appear now in yellow instead of red or green, indicating that you must reapply them (by clicking a button) to have them physically reapplied. The current setup is not impacted in any way.
If the pinball was physically turned off an on again or reset with the physicall switch SW2, then the programme restarts. Hence the supervisor mode is stopped. WiFlip will see it and turn the witness led indicator on the top right to grey meaning the system is now back in normal mode. You would have to press "super" again to retrieve the supervisor mode.
If you're experiencing a lot of disconnections, it's probably because the signal, either between your computer and the AP, or between your pinball machine and the AP, is too weak. You should check the RSSI (from the main WiFlip connection window). It should be in the range -40dB to -80dB to be able to work in the best conditions.
You should never work in supervisor mode if you have too many disconnections. It's not practical and it can also be dangerous for the power electronics.