RetroPie-Manager web app (Recalbox-Manager fork/mod)

Botolo · 7 Feb 2016, 10:11

@Botolo what about rename and then symlink to fit the retropie style name? I think it won't crash none of retropie's routine (for example, genesis is a symlynk to megadrive), and will avoid those crazy emulationstation manual configuration.

That I didn't try, but I guess nothing would change. I'll try anyway just in case python doesn't bother that much about symlinks :)

I'm sure there is a smart move to do, but I'm not a Coder and I could be missing something stupid.

As it is now it's just a temporary workaround

meleu · 7 Feb 2016, 11:40

I didn't even test the RetroPie-Manager. I tried to install it on my x86 RetroPie (my ubuntu laptop), and failed. The problem is the absence of that virtualenv package on ubuntu repositories.

Since RetroPie is instalable on other platforms, I think you should warn the users that the RetroPie-Manager is for Raspberry Pi (at least, for now).

I'll try to test it on my raspi when possible.

(...) let me know if you'd like access on github

Yes. I'm not promising an active development, but I think I can, at least, improve/simplify the instructions at README.

Did you see I made a Pull Request correcting the installation instruction? There is an unecessary dev string on the git clone command.

Botolo · 2 Jul 2016, 10:48

@meleu said in Recalbox Manager port:

I didn't even test the RetroPie-Manager. I tried to install it on my x86 RetroPie (my ubuntu laptop), and failed. The problem is the absence of that virtualenv package on ubuntu repositories.

Since RetroPie is instalable on other platforms, I think you should warn the users that the RetroPie-Manager is for Raspberry Pi (at least, for now).

I'll try to test it on my raspi when possible.

(...) let me know if you'd like access on github

Yes. I'm not promising an active development, but I think I can, at least, improve/simplify the instructions at README.

Did you see I made a Pull Request correcting the installation instruction? There is an unecessary dev string on the git clone command.

I'm not home, but I'll check it out as soon as possibile. Thanks

Botolo · 7 Mar 2016, 18:48

Pull request merged.

I tried to as you suggested.
I have a directory .\mamelibretro and I created a simlynk .\mame-libretro

drwxr-xr-x  3 pi   pi   4096 Jun 21 21:35 mamelibretro
lrwxrwxrwx  1 pi   pi     13 Jul  2 13:42 mame-libretro -> mamelibretro/

The django systems view is now giving the same error it does when you keep the folder names with the dash char

NoReverseMatch at /systems/
Reverse for 'roms-list' with arguments '()' and keyword arguments '{u'system': 'mame-libretro'}' not found. 1 pattern(s) tried: ['systems/roms/(?P<system>\\w+)/$']
Request Method:	GET
Request URL:	http://192.168.178.26:8000/systems/
Django Version:	1.8.13
Exception Type:	NoReverseMatch
Exception Value:	
Reverse for 'roms-list' with arguments '()' and keyword arguments '{u'system': 'mame-libretro'}' not found. 1 pattern(s) tried: ['systems/roms/(?P<system>\\w+)/$']
Exception Location:	/home/pi/RetroPie-Manager/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/urlresolvers.py in _reverse_with_prefix, line 495
Python Executable:	/home/pi/RetroPie-Manager/bin/python
Python Version:	2.7.9
Python Path:	
['/home/pi/RetroPie-Manager',
 '/home/pi/RetroPie-Manager/lib/python2.7',
 '/home/pi/RetroPie-Manager/lib/python2.7/plat-arm-linux-gnueabihf',
 '/home/pi/RetroPie-Manager/lib/python2.7/lib-tk',
 '/home/pi/RetroPie-Manager/lib/python2.7/lib-old',
 '/home/pi/RetroPie-Manager/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload',
 '/usr/lib/python2.7',
 '/usr/lib/python2.7/plat-arm-linux-gnueabihf',
 '/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-tk',
 '/home/pi/RetroPie-Manager/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages',
 '/home/pi/RetroPie-Manager/lib/python2.7/site-packages']
Server time:	Sat, 2 Jul 2016 13:42:33 +0000

I have to find out why and if it's possible to fix the error

Botolo · 2 Jul 2016, 14:47

Clearly it's not a problem python has listing the directories.
I did some tests and the test-dir is listed in the array.

print(existing_sys)
[('psx', 'psx'), ('fds', 'fds'), ('atarilynx', 'atarilynx'), ('test-dir', 'test-dir'), ('fba', 'fba'), ('zxspectrum', 'zxspectrum'), ('segacd', 'segacd'), ('genesis', 'genesis'), ('gba', 'gba'), ('n64', 'n64'), ('sega32x', 'sega32x'), ('arcade', 'arcade'), ('ngp', 'ngp'), ('sg1000', 'sg1000'), ('megadrive', 'megadrive'), ('mamelibre tro', 'mamelibretro'), ('psp', 'psp'), ('snes', 'snes'), ('mame4all', 'mame4all'), ('atari7800', 'atari7800'), ('gbc', 'gbc'), ('nes', 'nes'), ('gamegear', 'gamegear') , ('pcengine', 'pcengine'), ('gb', 'gb'), ('neogeo', 'neogeo'), ('ngpc', 'ngpc'), ('mastersystem', 'mastersystem'), ('amstradcpc', 'amstradcpc'), ('atari2600', 'atari2 600'), ('msx', 'msx'), ('vectrex', 'vectrex')]

I have to understand better that reverse match section

meleu · 2 Jul 2016, 14:57

@Botolo genesis is a symlink and is present too. The problem is neither the dash nor the symlink.

Botolo · 2 Jul 2016, 15:50

@meleu said in Recalbox Manager port:

@Botolo genesis is a symlink and is present too. The problem is neither the dash nor the symlink.

It was indeed the dash.
The problem was in the urls.py regex that didn't match the name with "-".

Now I think it's working. Can you try it?

meleu · 2 Jul 2016, 16:32

@Botolo said in Recalbox Manager port:

The problem was in the urls.py regex that didn't match the name with "-".

Do you mean no need for those annoying renaming process?! Great!!! :D

Now I think it's working. Can you try it?

I'm away from my rasp, but I'll try it this evening. :-)

Botolo · 2 Jul 2016, 17:00

@meleu said in Recalbox Manager port:

@Botolo said in Recalbox Manager port:

The problem was in the urls.py regex that didn't match the name with "-".

Do you mean no need for those annoying renaming process?! Great!!! :D

Now I think it's working. Can you try it?

I'm away from my rasp, but I'll try it this evening. :-)

And of course another issue come up :D
With the new regex the form seems unable to delete the files.

It's a never ending job :/

Botolo · 2 Jul 2016, 20:35

Bug fixed. I hope

meleu · 3 Jul 2016, 16:30

@Botolo another Pull Request on README. Check it out. :-)

herb_fargus · 3 Jul 2016, 16:44

@Botolo just out of curiosity how much overhead does this tool have?

Botolo · 3 Jul 2016, 17:42

@meleu said in Recalbox Manager port:

@Botolo another Pull Request on README. Check it out. :-)

Merged, thanks :)

Botolo · 3 Jul 2016, 17:43

@herb_fargus said in Recalbox Manager port:

@Botolo just out of curiosity how much overhead does this tool have?

I'll check the top command later

Botolo · 3 Jul 2016, 18:03

@Botolo said in Recalbox Manager port:

@herb_fargus said in Recalbox Manager port:

@Botolo just out of curiosity how much overhead does this tool have?

I'll check the top command later

I'd say almost nothing

herb_fargus · 3 Jul 2016, 18:59

@Botolo yeah I just tested it and it's very lightweight. Once we sort out the repository stuff we can add some things like the runcommand log. A few icon changes, maybe the colours too. I can get a working module that will automate the install somewhat and we can throw it on zerojays retropie-extra extra repository

Botolo · 3 Jul 2016, 19:23

@herb_fargus said in Recalbox Manager port:

@Botolo yeah I just tested it and it's very lightweight. Once we sort out the repository stuff we can add some things like the runcommand log. A few icon changes, maybe the colours too. I can get a working module that will automate the install somewhat and we can throw it on zerojays retropie-extra extra repository

Sounds good.
I'd like to add a syntax JS to the editor too.

Do you think we should get rid of the original recalbox variables?

meleu · 3 Jul 2016, 20:20

@Botolo said in Recalbox Manager port:

@herb_fargus said in Recalbox Manager port:

@Botolo yeah I just tested it and it's very lightweight. Once we sort out the repository stuff we can add some things like the runcommand log. A few icon changes, maybe the colours too. I can get a working module that will automate the install somewhat and we can throw it on zerojays retropie-extra extra repository

Do you think we should get rid of the original recalbox variables?

I think yes. I'll try to do it tonight.

meleu · 3 Jul 2016, 23:53

I found a problem. The RetroPie-Manager isn't able to show subdirs in ROMs directories.
For example, my /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/nes has the following subdirs:
0-9/
a/
b/
c/
d/
etcetera...

When I open the NES' ROMs dir in RetroPie-Manager, it's empty.

Botolo · 7 Apr 2016, 04:46

@meleu said in Recalbox Manager port:

I found a problem. The RetroPie-Manager isn't able to show subdirs in ROMs directories.
For example, my /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/nes has the following subdirs:
0-9/
a/
b/
c/
d/
etcetera...

When I open the NES' ROMs dir in RetroPie-Manager, it's empty.

I know, but this could be tricky to solve since that module has been designed for a single level folder structure.