Detect when ROMs are being copied?
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Any way to detect when ROMs are being copied?
My thumb drive does not have an led indicator on it, letting you know when it's being written to/read, so I want to activate an led on the pi that lets you know that it's still copying files. Is there any way to detect when RetroPie is copying ROMs?
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i wonder if you were to connect to the pi via ssh, would the top/htop command show the roms being copied? might be worth a try
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Did just that, these 3 processes topped the list
rsync
mount.exfat
usb-storageWill do some more digging to figure out how to check one (probably rsync) and get my output
Thanks
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Wrote this script and ran it a few times now. Monitors rsync to see if it's running (rsync I guess is what's used to copy ROMs from the USB to internal storage). Would be super if the devs gave us some way to know that it's still copying ;) ;) but this works, and was only using about 0.5% CPU usage.
https://github.com/InunoTaishou/RetroPie-rsync-Monitor
The whole file is commented, should help anyone looking to do the same.
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