YARMan Web (BETA)

meleu

@daeks What's the point on restarting emulationstation via yarm?! I can't see a use case for it...

daeks

@meleu running es overwrites gamelist.xml, therefore it needs to be quited. Anyhow, nobody has to use it if he does not need it ;) - Nevertheless, I am struggling to start a game after restarting es as mentioned above.

meleu

@daeks As I reported on yarman issue tracker, the I had some issues when trying to install it on RetroPie x86 (Linux Mint 18.1).

daeks

sqlite implementation is finished so far.
Currently doing some deeper tests before releasing it. It can be already tested on the sqlite branch.

The biggest issue I have is the execution time for hashing roms all at once during the sync/setup process. Tests on a very large romset resulted in script timeouts and the general process takes too long - Thinking on dat support later on, I currently struggle a bit how to solve that. Maybe some cron job?

Shakz

@Jeck11 You can change that setting in the config menu so that it puts the art in the correct folder rather than the roms directory.

daeks

I have released a new version of YARMan Web. Please update the scriptmodule before updating.
Please be aware that some modules are still BETA.

Note: YARMan Web is currently only tested on Raspberry 3B with latest RetroPie installation.

Changelog:

-- [FIX] Config Editor strips content in some circumstances
-- [FIX] Image / Video preview uses proper path from xml tag
-- [FIX] Better HTML5 upload dialog & error handling
-- [FIX] Restarting ES didnt work

-- [NEW] SQLite Implementation
-- [NEW] Quick Setup on first startup
-- [NEW] Dynamic Administration Panel
-- [NEW] Emulator Configuration
-- [NEW] Database Management

-- [CHANGE] Dashboard rewrite with dynamically loaded widgets
-- [CHANGE] New Metadata Editor (no direct save on gamelist.xml)
-- [CHANGE] Rom hashing preparation for DAT support
-- [CHANGE] Performance Improvements and several minor points

Some impressions:

robertybob

Looks amazing!

Shakz

This is excellent work.
I got the default apache page at first accessing http://retropie
I just needed to move the default index.html to a diff filename then index.php was selected by default.
mv /var/www/html/index.html /var/www/html/old.index.html
after that popped right up. :-)

cyperghost

@daeks What a pitty I just discovered this piece of WEBGUI sooo late :(

peter_shaw

I just discovered this, judging from the screenshots this is exactly what i've been looking for. retropie doesn't support php5 anymore.
I installed php7 + sql3 manually (edited the install script to not check for php5 dependencies) but it doesn't seem to work. no files are inside /www. anyone can help?