Kiosk mode not surviving reboot

Srdrgz

I have the latest version of retropie installed and I'd like to run it in kiosk mode. I've installed emulationstation-dev from the experimental repository as per the instructions in the wiki. Kiosk mode works fine but it goes back to full mode upon reboot. Is there any way to stay in kiosk mode through a reboot?

mitu

@srdrgz Maybe some recent changes in ES, since the -dev branch takes all the new additions.
Kiosk mode is now in the stable ES branch, so you can switch back to ES (non-dev branch) and update from binary - then try again to see if you can reproduce the problem.

Srdrgz

@mitu

Prior to using the experimental version, I updated ES and RetroPie all to the latest versions and still had the same problem. I thought the experimental version might be do the trick to no avail.

I'll try what you suggested anyway and thank you for your response.

mitu

@srdrgz Well, if you already used the stable version and had Kiosk mode enabled with this problem, I don't know if you need to go back and try again. I though you tried the -dev branch just to get the Kiosk/Kids mode features.

Srdrgz

@mitu

I tried the - dev branch because the stable version wasn't working properly and I thought the - dev branch might be a newer version. Although, I suspected it was not.

Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Srdrgz

Another problem I'm having with kiosk mode is that I can't exit kiosk with the Konami code from within emulationstation.

Thanks again for the help

Zigurana

@srdrgz
To unlock, what type of controller are you using?

Srdrgz

@zigurana

Xbox 360 with wireless receiver

Zigurana

@srdrgz said in Kiosk mode not surviving reboot:

@zigurana

Xbox 360 with wireless receiver

This is a known issue. There is a fix for that coming up in the dev/experimental branch, as soon as this PR is accepted

Zigurana

Regarding the UI mode not sticking, can you

set the UI mode to kiosk
exit emulationstation with a keyboard by pressing F4
check the content of the emulationstation settings file (/home/pi/.emulationstation/es_settings.cfg), especially the lines about UIModes?

pjft

I think the file name is named "es_settings.cfg".

Cjax08

@zigurana I know I can comment on this. I am having the same problem with the newest version of the master branch. If I set kiosk mode from the menu it will change to kiosk until I do a reboot, then it will be in Full mode. If I close ES and change the es_settings.cfg to “Kiosk” and save, then it will load up to kiosk and stay in kiosk after many reboots. However, whenever I change the mode back to Full from the menu then the cycle starts all over with all changes being temporary until a reboot.

Srdrgz

Changing the setting to "kiosk" in es_settings.cfg worked for me. I also removed the retropie menu from where the emulators are selected, to prevent any other accidental changes.

edmaul69

@srdrgz before getting rid of retropie menu, did you go into runcommand and disable joystick or disable it competely so someone cant change emulator and video settings?

Srdrgz

@edmaul69
Yes, I disabled that too. This retropie was a gift to my brother. So, tried to make it as streamlined as possible. I think the only other change I made was that i remapped the general input of mame to not allow access to the mame settings, within a game, with a gamepad. It can now only be accessed by pressing tab on a keyboard.

Come to think of it, is there a way to disable access retroarch settings, while in a game? Currently, if I press select and x on my controller it will bring up the retroarch settings menu. I'd like to disable that menu without remapping any gamepad buttons.

Edit: I think I found the answer to my question in the retroarch configuration wiki. I think if I comment out the line of code that toggles the RGUI then that should. However, I can't test it because I already gave it to my brother.

pjft

How are you exiting/resetting RetroPie?

EDIT: Also, when you set "Kiosk mode", can you then open a SSH session (or exit ES) and look into es_log.txt, see if there's a line stating "Setting UI mode to <mode you selected>". And in that thread, check the contents of the settings file after changing it in ES and exiting ES.

jcook84

@pjft
I have the same problem. Both the standard menu shutdown and a power button script shutdown have the same result. (Edit: ES-Dev)

edmaul69

@jcook84 if you change the emulationstation theme do you lose that on reboot as well? If so you might need to fix the permissions for the emulationstation folder. I had this issue.

jcook84

@edmaul69
Theme selection is persistent. Still no luck with with having Kiosk setting hold through the reboot. Not a huge deal because it will remain if I edit the es_settings.cfg; Ideally, I'll be the only one in the house using full UI anyway

jcook84

@srdrgz
I typically edit the unwanted Retroarch hotkey combos out of the controller configs in /retroarch-joypads/.