City Connect Jersey's

[pjockey]

How does the system know when the teams are wearing the City Connect Jersey's, so it knows to change the colours on the board?

Thanks

Scott

[WardBrian]

The API got a new uniform endpoint. Here’s an example:

https://statsapi.mlb.com/api/v1/uniforms/game/?gamePks=746508

in Python, this is available as “game_uniforms” in statsapi.get: https://github.com/toddrob99/MLB-StatsAPI/wiki/Endpoints#endpoint-game_uniforms

[pjockey]

OK, last night's game for the Blue Jays didn't reflect their City Connect jerseys. Board showed a light blue bar on the side and then a regular blue around their name.

Scott

[WardBrian]

Interesting, I know it showed up on my board (because I hadn’t seen the colors yet, and I remember saying out loud “oh, I like those”).

Someone recently mentioned the data sometimes populates late compared to the rest of the schedule data, so if you have the rotation turned off I could see it not realizing it yet. We could make it refresh with the game refreshes probably

[pjockey]

        "rotation": {
                "enabled": true,
                "scroll_until_finished": true,
                "only_preferred": false,
                "only_live": true,
                "rates": {
                        "live": 15.0,
                        "final": 15.0,
                        "pregame": 15.0
                },
                "while_preferred_team_live": {
                        "enabled": false,
                        "during_inning_breaks": false

So, when these teams wear different tops during their 3 or 4 game series, are the colours reflected for these changes?

[WardBrian]

Currently we only do city connect colors, because all teams’ uniform assets for those contain the string “City Connect” so it’s very easy to detect. I tried to make the code easy to modify if someone wanted to add custom logic for their own team, but the names aren’t standardized enough for us to do much generically

are the Jays your top preferred team? If so it seems like your board wouldn’t have ever rotated while that game was live, so if it did indeed load the first time before the API populated it would get stuck. That should be an easy fix on our end, just adding a refresh to the Uniform class

[pjockey]

I could see the problem with the 3 to 4 game series. Might not know the uniform from one game to the next. I heard it was the starting pitcher who decides what jersey they wear, at least for the Blue Jays.

Yes, they are my preferred team. I think Friday home games this year are the City Connects. I can see what happens in 2 weeks.