Unmaintained. Have a look at VPDB, which provides many of Pind's features.

Node Pinball Daemon

A lightweight realtime web application that runs on a virtual pinball cab, doing all kinds of neat stuff. Particularly it should be able to:

• Browse through HyperPin's tables in a fast and visually pleasing way with the ability to:
  • [ ] Define filters based on table attributes
  • [ ] Mark tables as favorite for faster access
  • [ ] Make use of available artwork using realtime image processing and caching
  • [X] Get status out of VPM tables, such as total number of games, score/playtime histogram etc
• [ ] List high scores of all tables for a given user, including a "global" score based on achievements.
• [X] List audit data from tables. Use a graphical representation for histogram data pulled from the table's NVRAM
• [ ] Provide a voting system for new tables to install.
• Administer HyperPin's tables. This includes:
  • [X] Automatically download missing artwork
  • [X] Easily (fuzzy-) search, download and add new tables
  • [X] Automatically download missing ROMs
  • [ ] Automatically search, download and patch table for DirectB2S backglasses
  • [X] Bulk-update VPinMAME rotation settings in tables
  • [X] Match tables on IPDB.org for additional meta data
  • [X] Support for Visual Pinball and Future Pinball
  • [X] Receive real-time status updates during processing
  • [ ] Add (and remove) tables to HyperPin's XML database
• Manage users:
  • [X] Anyone can sign up individually using high score initials as user name
  • [X] Administrator can manage credits for each user
  • [X] Credits allow users to insert coins via web app or Android client (using NFC where supported)
  • [ ] Users can be notified by mail when someone beats a high score
• [X] Include a download manager for assets and tables
• [X] Provide an API for all features (JSON-RPC 2.0)
• [X] Provide an Android app for some features (such as inserting a coin, browsing tables and high scores).
• [X] Implement reasonable security. Passwords are salted and strongly hashed, auto-login uses a random token, SSL connections should be enforced when transferring sensitive data.
• [X] Provide an automatic update procedure.
• [X] Be usable on a phone by using a responsive layout.

Note that for a single user cab, Pind is mainly useful for managing tables, which is a major PITA to do manually. Most of the other features however are about multiple players using the same cab.

Development Principles

• Be as lightweight as possible - it's for running on a cab.
• Be responsive - nobody likes slow applications.
• Be beautiful - minimal yet elegant.

Platforms

If you've read as far as this, you already know that all the stuff mentioned above runs on Windows and Windows only. I'm currently testing this on XP, Windows 7 and Windows 8.

However, I'm open to add support for other platforms if that's your development environment. If there are particular problems, let me know and I'll try to fix them (or even better, submit a PR).

Installation

See INSTALL.md.

Technologies

Besides obviously NodeJS on server side, there are a few more technologies used:

• Twitter Bootstrap for client side CSS
• Vector icons from Font Awesome, assembled by IcoMoon (along with some custom icons).
• jQuery for all our JS needs.
• SocketStream for the real-time features.
• AngularJS for client side development.

Credits

• Full credits for the high score features go to Dna Disturber's PINemHi, along with a big thanks for the permission to redistribute the binary. Looking forward to even more features!
• Thanks to Sacha Greif for the nice 3D buttons.
• Thanks to Andreas Nylin for the DMD font and his permission to use it freely.

License

Licensed under GPLv2. See LICENSE.txt.