LEDBlinky not responding to MAME

[mattmillsva]

Just got to the point where I can use LEDBLINKY on the new arcade I am building (see attached pic, i am very excited), but this software has been a battle to get working.   I have searched the forums with no luck.

LEDBLINK starts up with no errors and lights up COINOPS control buttons, but it does not light up game buttons as a scroll through mame games games and it does not light up controls with I choose a MAME game.
  - I check the LEDBLINKY debug log and it is running good, just not detecting anything from MAME.   
  - used the MAMEOutputTest and it does not show anything happening when I run mame games with the FE or when I run games within mame.exe 

step 1 - I installed it and went through the configuration wizard.
step 2 - changed the mame.ini "OSD OUTPUT OPTIONS" to "windows"
step 4 - verified setting in ledblinky

I am using:
OS - Windows 10 (all patches installed)
FE - COINOPS
Emulator - MAME  0.245
LEDBLINKY vs 8.2.1.0 (latest)

Interesting - MAME documents 0.245 does not show "windows" as an option.   only auto, none, console or network.  I tried console and it did not work.

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5.1.9 OSD Output Options
-output
Chooses how MAME will handle processing of output notifiers. These are used to connect external outputs
such as the LED lights for the Player 1/2 start buttons on certain arcade machines.
You can choose from: auto, none, console or network
Note that network port is fixed at 8000.
Example:
mame asteroid -output console
led0 = 1
led0 = 0
...
led0 = 1
led0 = 0

[abispac]

No need to post twice.
on your mame cfg file you need to tell it to use windows output, so change it from auto to windows.

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#
# OSD OUTPUT OPTIONS
#
output                    windows