No, but don't worry.. the reader's light will eventually die and you'll get a dark reader instead

The game varies the light intensity at different periods... but is also huge failure point.

I always point the antennas straight up and down. That gets better reception.

They make wifi extenders that can broadcast a different SSID than the SSID they receive. You may not need the extender, but you could use it to receive the SSID with the apostrophe (that you can not change) and then set the extender to broadcast a different SSID, one that does not have an apostrophe.

Heck, this one can do that, plus it has an ethernet port, so you could just run a network cable from this extender and plug it into the ethernet port on the top of the main node CPU board in your backbox. And right now it is 52% off ($16.97).
https://a.co/d/7NFopSG

This would be my recommendation as well. The less wireless interference, the better.

Unplug it from under the apron, problem is you won't be able to use IC.

Another option is to relocate the IC QR code reader to the coin door. There is a $39 kit available from Pinsider Gotfrogs and the installation is quite simple.

https://pinside.com/pinball/market/shops/1295-gotfrogs/05778-metal-stern-insider-connected-qr-code-reader-coin-door-mount

Gord

Not necessarily true. If you have Home Team set up, you can just hold down the left flipper button and bring up your home team members, up to 10. I have this on Zepellin that only has the wifi connection and no reader. If it's your only machine, scan in the people you want and save them to the team, and then unplug the reader. If you have multiple machines you can scan and manage the team on one with an active scanner. The door option was well worth it though on my IMDN.

I noticed on the Stern IC page they use game numbers in a predictable format.

https://insider.sternpinball.com/insider/games/120

Basically the last 3 digits, starting at 100 going up. It covers all the IC games, except machine 119. Which Im guessing is the NFT game that had an IC dongle attached to it?

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Really tried to track this game down when I was NYC right about they time it was announced. I missed the party by a week or two if I remember correctly. The guys who did the project were nice and messaged back and forth with me on Twitter, but it was only available for private parties when I was there.

Not sure if anyone has experienced this. On my home team, I was the first player and then my son, then some friends. All of a sudden, I'm the 4th player in the list and I'm still pretty much the only person that plays regularly. Not sure how to make myself the first selectable player again. Any ideas?

is that game getting the os / backend updates for IC?

Is this game actually going to come out someday?

No. It was a one off custom build. I can't remember, but I think maybe a couple were built. There was an account on Twitter that had all the details.

I played at The Flipper Room last night (LOVE this place) and once again I see how awesome it is to have a leaderboard up on the wall for everyone to see in real time. It adds to the excitement. I loved being able to glance over and see how far away I was from the 4th place high score on James Bond for example. Having this in my home arcade when I'm hosting gatherings and small tournaments would be HUGE to me.

STERN,... would you PLEASE make leaderboards available for us home users!!!!! COME ON!! It's been 2 f-ing years!!! MAKE IT HAPPEN.
I think I can speak for most people and say that we would be willing to pay a reasonable annual fee for this feature. Just do it!

They always talk about how the server cost would go up so much at stern which is partly to blame why they haven’t done the home leaderboards yet. But explain it to me like I’m 5, couldn't it all reside on a local system? Like couldn't each of your machines check the local network to find a pc or other device that is running the home leaderboard to update the scores? I dont see why it really needs to impact sterns servers at all.

By "reasonable fee", I hope you mean included in the yearly insider connected cost because as of now, I don't see much value subscribing to it, other than receiving a plastic cup and a Stern Coin.

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/chicago-pinball-expo-2023/page/16#post-7827235

John-Floyd Is this the coin you speak of?

There is NO fee for Insider Connect. Are you talking about Stern's "all access"? I don't see why anybody would pay $40 for that as it stands right now. That's a total waste of money in my opinion.
Now if they included leaderboards for home users, then I would definitely pay $40 annually.

Yes I meant all access.

I think that is the coin - I have mine in a little display case - if that is not it, mine looks very similar. I can post a pic when I get home.

I don't get the desire for the home leader boards. I do have people over, but it seems like it would end up just being a lot of my scores from the month up there. In any given month, I'm the main player putting in scores. Sure, I have friends over 1-3 times each month depending on how busy work it, but I can't see it being something they would be interested in. People do love to try for my high score boards on each machine.

Different coin

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You could clear your high scores and have a party and your guests would see their names and high scores on the board. Especially if you have teenagers like I do. My son will have his friends over and I guarantee they will be competing with one another to try to knock each other off the board.
Same when I have a house full of pinball players.

I could see that being fun for parties. Throw it up on the TV and give everyone something to chat about.

This is certainly feasible, but not a modern design paradigm that Stern would want to use. Gomez has said many times he wants Insider Connected to be the Xbox Live of pinball. Cloud is the way.

Gomez also said that he realizes they aren’t giving enough value (really any value) for the $40 all access. Home Leaderboards will probably be locked behind that paywall.

Leaderboards are also still paywalled because they need to give operators something worthwhile

I also think there is limited appeal for the home leaderboards. Might be cool if they added a high score display that listed the best score for all the players registered on a particular games home team (or hell, anyone who comes over and scans themselves in). Then you get the same basic functionality without the server or an extra TV screen in the room.

Really they could be greatly expanding the local leaderboard system already. Why not tell me what my best score for mode XYZ is, and what the highest score by anyone on the machine is?

With 8 IC games at home I run tournaments and a home league and would reallllly like home leaderboards. Since this never came out we use iScored.com for our leaderboard and it's been working great. Now not only are my games on there but my friends pins as well.

On AWS it would not add much at all. UI would even like to see them give us an open API where we, the community, can develope leaderboards and all kinds of virtual leagues!

I've been all access since Insider started and never got a coin.

You would need to have someone write software package to run these home leaderboards as well, and they did kinda tell ops this was going to be something to help drive their businesses. So no there is not really any technical challenges standing in its way.

For anyone who has gotten this badge, what is the requirement to get it?

The other similar badges have text along the lines of :
“Scan and play any Insider Connected game with two or more players. Get a combined total score of XXX million to earn this badge.”

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"On Valentine’s Day, scan and play any Insider Connected game with two or more players. Get a combined total score of 250 million to earn this special Gary Stern badge"

No one should have it yet.

That picture looks a little different than the badge for Valentine’s Day.

Yea I finally found the place they tucked away the current quests in IC. It used to be on the first page. Now it’s on the PlayNow page (ball icon), then Stern Events.

Can some computer literate person tell me how to copy the page of my badges and turn it into a picture? Ctrl + something...maybe

So, it's just me?

Could be.

If you go into your machine’s config screens, you can re-do the order of the home team members.

Go to NET, Setup Home Team, use +- to select a home team member and then follow prompts to move that member’s position or delete them entirely

How do you turn off auto updates?

In settings goto NET. Then download updates, press enter and there is the setting to turn off auto update

Ctrl+ or Crtl - to grow or shrink the badges to fill the screen

Printscn button to save a screenshot

Then you'll need to use some art program to crop it

Excellent Thanks!

My JP has Insider connect and my IMDN doesn't. The two games are right next to each other. Couldn't I just take the QR Cable that's plugged into my Jurassic Park node board and plug it into my IMDN node board? It looks like there's plenty of cable to easily reach my IMDN? I have a Cat-5e cable,and a RJ45 coupler being delivered sometime next week,if this doesn't work.

The IMDN already has a wifi dongle and an SD card, since the last owner had this game set up to Home Team. The game has the latest code
and the display shows a insider connect menu. So I won't need to do a code update, correct? One more thing,this will allow me to update my IMDN automatically just like my JP is set up to do, right ?

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Yes. You only have to hook up the scanner long enough to set up insider and home team. Then you can remove it and home team will work.

Thank You. The best part of IC to me, is the automatic updates.

Hey there Stern Pinball players. I just wanted to show off my Badges that I have collected. A little incentive to play more pinball. I can only imagine how March will be the Luck of the Irish, with Green Clovers.

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So the live leaderboards only show the top 100? Some of those scores ......sheesh!

Thanks for taking the time to print up this little tutorial. I had one little hitch where I had to change the USB port I was using in the games back box. After doing that it was smooth sailing.

Since a few weeks, in Insider Connected, the "latest achievement" is stuck on the Stranger Things Demogorgon Hunter Bronze achievement. All other achievements I received afterwards are always shown beneath the Demogorgon achievement. The timestamp of this achievement updates every game as if it was received in that game. All the other achievements in the screenshot should be newer. Wife's account has the exact same behaviour. I reached out to Stern, but they haven't been able to replicate this problem on their accounts. Anyone here with the same thing happening?

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I have absolutely had this happen, only in my case it was for an Avengers: Infinity Quest achievement. It was also one of the bronze/silver/gold tiered achievements, I believe for collecting Trophies. That achievement was stuck there for weeks even though I earned plenty other achievements on other games (at home) after that. I *think* (but cannot confirm) that it finally changed after I earned a new 'verified' achievement, i.e. on a 'public' machine at a location...