WebtroPie

Clyde

Does the standard Retropie image come with Apache installed?

I don't know, but you can look if a package is installed by this command:

dpkg -s apache2  # shows if the package "apache2" is installed.

And how many bytes does webtropie take up on my sdcard?

Alas, that I also don't know.

kixut

Hi, Webtropie itself is about 1 or 2 Mb when installed, the zipped release is 172 Kb.

If you git clone the development version it will be approx 11 Mb which is mostly the source code repo in the .git directory.

I'm not sure how comprehensive below is but these are the rough sizes of apache php directories on my pi

du -sh /usr/lib/apache2 /usr/share/apache2 /usr/share/php5 /usr/sbin/apache*
11M /usr/lib/apache2
1.7M /usr/share/apache2
276K /usr/share/php5
500K /usr/sbin/apache2
8.0K /usr/sbin/apache2ctl
0 /usr/sbin/apachectl

maybe there are other doc, man pages etc that I've missed but all in all it's tiny compared to roms and themes and maybe even smaller than some single theme or game images. Putting it into perspective the release image size is smaller than the tiny fav icon on this website.

I'm sorry if I have broken the dev version and have not been very attentive to the project lately I will have a look at this, in the meantime the release version is available and working.

Edit: correction the 3 fav icons here are 55Kb in total :)

FlightRisk

@clyde I don't think the standard RetroPie images come with apache since that is what I downloaded and the dpkg command came up empty

FlightRisk

@kixut Thank you for the amazing work on this. Could there be an easier way to install and update the stable release? The development release is 3 easy to type commands. To get the stable release, you pretty much have to copy and past the text since it is a lot to type and uses grep type code. One missing space and it won't work.

And lastly, do I need a static IP? I figure I can find the IP assigned by DHCP each time it changes, or just use http://retropie.local/app. Not sure what makes the most sense. The last method seems to work fine.

kixut

@flightrisk thanks very much

I guess below is about as small as it can be but requires you to know what the latest release version is, I haven't tested it but I think it should work

wget -nc https://github.com/gazpan/WebtroPie/archive/0.9.1.tar.gz | tar xvz
cd WebtroPie-0.9.1
sudo ./INSTALL.sh

@jwcbronski by the way, I have posted changes regarding the carousel but am unsure if it has resolved the issue above as I have not been able to reproduce the error or confirm the fix yet.

Edit. I agree though, I think I'll update the wiki https://github.com/gazpan/WebtroPie/wiki/Installation-and-Files-altered#install as above

jwcbronski

@kixut The update didn't solve my problem. I noticed that all games are marked as "new:" when I use the "SCAN NEW GAMES AT START SETTING". So it looks like the roms are found but the gamelists are not read.

kixut

@jwcbronski , sorry, can you try again please?
thanks

jwcbronski

@kixut Now it's working again. Thanks.

jwcbronski

@kixut I still got an issue: roms are only found when there is just the filename in the gamelists <path> tag. When there is a full path like "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/c64/" the rom is not found and show as NEW:

kixut

Note: For stretch users, since PHP 5 is obsolete on stretch I've changed the INSTALL.sh to use PHP 7, ... this should be working now.

jwcbronski

@kixut When I try to install WebtroPie on stretch under apache I get the following errors:

cp: cannot stat '/var/www/html/index.html': No such file or directory
cp: cannot create regular file '/var/www/html/index.html': No such file or directory

Looks like the apache server is not installed.

EctoOne

Just a quick question, is the fixed <thumbnail> tag supported? That's the one where you can specify an image that will appear before a video is played (if the theme has a set delay and the option active). If no thumbnail is specified it will use the normal <image>.

Evert

@kixut this is awesome. WebtroPie was only pointed out to me yesterday by mitu and I love it.

I am however having an issue. I am able to log on and see all the things I should see, but I am unable to save any changes. After making a change and clicking on the save button, it appears to be all good. When I then refresh the web page, all the changes have been reverted to the original.
I am also not able to add a picture. selecting it does nothing and drag and drop gives me a X icon as a picture. I tried manually closing ES on the Pi and then trying again, but I have the issue.

Is it also possible to hide the missing roms from the list? The ones highlighted in red? I know they are missing and that's because I don't want them. It would be nice to be able to toggle this feature on and off. Thanks.

morenr1

Hi,

I have installed WebtroPie following the steps which appear in the Wiki. The issue that I have is when I broswe from Chrome to http://192.168.1.XX/app/#!/ I only have a black screen. Any help?

I'm running RetroPie 4.4 and my roms are stored in an external USB. I have simbolic links from /retropie/roms to my external USB unit.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Regards
morenr1

steptoe

Your wiki says the user will be run as "pi", but I'm running RetroPie via RetroSMC installation on OSMC so I have KODI with RetroPIe not RetroPie with KODI as a lot do

My user is OSMC, can the user be changed to support OSMC as the user instead of the default "pi"

I have no issues changing any scripts or PHP editing to change the default 'pi' user, just which one to change

Thanks

Looks a very very good web interface as there isn't anything that REALLY lets you edit what you want. Plenty of auto scrapers but they all have 'issues' in one way or another

steptoe

@steptoe said in WebtroPie:

Your wiki says the user will be run as "pi", but I'm running RetroPie via RetroSMC installation on OSMC so I have KODI with RetroPIe not RetroPie with KODI as a lot do

My user is OSMC, can the user be changed to support OSMC as the user instead of the default "pi"

I have no issues changing any scripts or PHP editing to change the default 'pi' user, just which one to change

Thanks

Looks a very very good web interface as there isn't anything that REALLY lets you edit what you want. Plenty of auto scrapers but they all have 'issues' in one way or another

Answered my own question after looking through the INSTALL.sh script. Simply changed the 'pi' to 'omsc' through the script and tried again. Worked almost straight away as I had a couple of things to install and NOT use root

Had to install PHP, which wasn't that difficult as I'm using the 'stretch' install of OSMC so just simply used :

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -t stretch php7.0

then verified it had installed, as trying the command previously proved I didn't have PHP installed as it came back with an error

php -v

Then ran the interface via putty once I had started WebtroPie as a standalone web interface using the commands 'cd WebtroPie' then '.STANDALONE.sh', and called it for my PI using 192.168.0.3:1982 on my browser. Worked straight away and looks great

I found out why my images and videos has suddenly disappeared using the metaeditor on WebtroPie. For some reason the 'gamelist.xml' had been updated but wiped the paths that had correctly been created using ScreenScraper UXMS. Possibly as I had been trying to create the Daphne screenshots that were missing using sseelphscraper from within RetroPie. Not sure, but its all corrected now thanks to WebtroPie showing me exactly what had gone wrong

morenr1

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morenr1

@morenr1 said in WebtroPie:

Hi,

I have installed WebtroPie following the steps which appear in the Wiki. The issue that I have is when I broswe from Chrome to http://192.168.1.XX/app/#!/ I only have a black screen. Any help?

I'm running RetroPie 4.4 and my roms are stored in an external USB. I have simbolic links from /retropie/roms to my external USB unit.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Regards
morenr1

Answered myseft and with the help of @steptoe I had to install PHP after run INSTALL.sh script.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -t stretch php7.0

and the system starts to work.

Amazing work!!

Regards
morenr1

Clyde

Hi,

I just installed Webtropie on an up to date Retropie 4.4, chose not to use Apache, and got some error messages:

Install to Apache? [y/n]: n
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package php5 is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

Package php5-gd is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'php5' has no installation candidate
E: Package 'php5-gd' has no installation candidate
2018-09-29 17:51:57 URL:https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.6.7/angular.min.js [169374] -> "angular.min.js" [1]
2018-09-29 17:51:58 URL:https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.6.7/angular.min.js.map [452339] -> "angular.min.js.map" [1]
2018-09-29 17:51:58 URL:https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.6.7/angular-route.min.js [5611] -> "angular-route.min.js" [1]
2018-09-29 17:51:59 URL:https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.6.7/angular-route.min.js.map [14451] -> "angular-route.min.js.map" [1]
2018-09-29 17:51:59 URL:https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.6.7/angular-animate.min.js [25733] -> "angular-animate.min.js" [1]
2018-09-29 17:51:59 URL:https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.6.7/angular-animate.min.js.map [70648] -> "angular-animate.min.js.map" [1]
sed: can't read /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini: No such file or directory
to run WebtroPie type :-

./STANDALONE.sh

Ready

As expected, running STANDALONE.sh doesn't work:

------------------------------------------------
WebtroPie serving by php from :1982

Cntrl-C to stop, ./STANDALONE.sh to restart
------------------------------------------------
./STANDALONE.sh: line 15: php: command not found

Seem like php5 doesn't exist in Debian Stretch anymore. What should I install instead?

edit: Both of the packages php and php7.0 would also install Apache2, which I would like to avoid for just testing Webtropie for the first time.

cyperghost

@clyde ~~You need a php server~~ (I think RetroPie gots already one?)

~~So you can use nginx or lighttpd instead of apache~~

IMHO: You can force install php by manipulating apt caches.