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    {SOLVED} How to make a momentary push button that exit games and take me back to game menu ?

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    • mituM
      mitu Global Moderator @O.M.A.A
      last edited by mitu

      @O-M-A-A said in How to make a momentary push button that exit games and take me back to game menu ?:

      I hope this is what u guys meant !!

      Not really:

      Run your original script (now modified) and see if you get the desired behavior.

      You need to run shutdown.py, not the other way around.

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        O.M.A.A
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        @mitu
        the original script's name is shutdown.py, I did modified it, or what did u mean ?

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        • cyperghostC
          cyperghost @O.M.A.A
          last edited by cyperghost

          @O-M-A-A How do you startup this python script? (It should be the one @mitu presented you in this posting)

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            O.M.A.A @cyperghost
            last edited by O.M.A.A

            @cyperghost just copied it and paste it ;D

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            • mituM
              mitu Global Moderator
              last edited by

              Can you take a picture of how the buttons are wired ?

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              • cyperghostC
                cyperghost @mitu
                last edited by

                @O-M-A-A How do you start the script? How do you start the shutdown.py script?

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                  O.M.A.A
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                    O.M.A.A
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                    @cyperghost @mitu
                    sry for the delay, I was having some error when replaying to u guys.

                    I actually found a command, when I just executed it, it made the shutdown.py script and power button works immediately.

                    this is the command:
                    3333.png

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                    • mituM
                      mitu Global Moderator
                      last edited by mitu

                      Why are you posting an image of a text, instead of posting the text ? It makes it harder to copy it and verify the URL/file. We know now how the script looks like, the issue is why the 2nd button doesn't work - can you show us how you wired the buttons to the PI ?

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                        O.M.A.A @mitu
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                        @mitu I received error when posting it as it marked as a spam, give me seconds

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                        • mituM
                          mitu Global Moderator @O.M.A.A
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                          @O-M-A-A The link to the script is not so important now.

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                            O.M.A.A @mitu
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                            @mitu fd3d39ce-9d86-4beb-ac63-38011dfbbdf4.jpg

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                              O.M.A.A @O.M.A.A
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                              the white and grey wires are for the power button, while the brown and red are for the exit emu button

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                              • mituM
                                mitu Global Moderator @O.M.A.A
                                last edited by mitu

                                @O-M-A-A I don't think the brown/red are tied to GPIO 7.

                                Modify the script and change 2nd buttons's pin number from 7 to 33 and see if you get a different result:

                                #!/usr/bin/python
                                import RPi.GPIO as GPIO
                                import time
                                import subprocess
                                
                                GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BOARD)
                                
                                # we will use the pin numbering to match the pins on the Pi, instead of the
                                # GPIO pin outs (makes it easier to keep track of things)
                                # use the same pin that is used for the reset button (one button to rule them all!)
                                GPIO.setup(5, GPIO.IN)
                                GPIO.setup(33, GPIO.IN)
                                
                                oldButtonState1 = True
                                oldButtonState2 = True
                                
                                while True:
                                    #grab the current button state
                                    buttonState1 = GPIO.input(5)
                                    buttonState2 = GPIO.input(33)
                                
                                    # check to see if button has been pushed
                                    if buttonState1 != oldButtonState1 and buttonState1 == False:
                                        # shutdown
                                        subprocess.call("shutdown -h now", shell=True,
                                          stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
                                        oldButtonState1 = buttonState1
                                    
                                    if buttonState2 != oldButtonState2 and buttonState2 == False:
                                        # Reset emulator
                                        subprocess.call("/home/pi/scripts/multi_switch.sh --es-closeemu", shell=True,
                                          stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
                                        oldButtonState2 = buttonState2
                                
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                                  O.M.A.A
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                                  @mitu didn't work,
                                  would it be fine if u get access to my computed and try it yourself as maybe the way I'm doing it is wrong.

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                                  • mituM
                                    mitu Global Moderator @O.M.A.A
                                    last edited by

                                    @O-M-A-A said in How to make a momentary push button that exit games and take me back to game menu ?:

                                    would it be fine if u get access to my computed and try it yourself as maybe the way I'm doing it is wrong.

                                    Can't do that, I'm sorry.

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                                      O.M.A.A @mitu
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                                      @mitu it is okay thank you for your patient,

                                      I will just summarized what I did so u will have an idea maybe of the mistake I did, when I installed the retropie image, I basically run the link to the script (shudown.py) and this made the power button to work.

                                      Then I open it with notepad++ and I modified it to install the exit emu button.

                                      lastly, I downloaded ur file (multi_switch.sh) and executed the command u provided it me.

                                      for now pins are 3+4 for the exit emu button and 5+6 for the power button.

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                                      • mituM
                                        mitu Global Moderator @O.M.A.A
                                        last edited by mitu

                                        @O-M-A-A said in How to make a momentary push button that exit games and take me back to game menu ?:

                                        for now pins are 3+4 for the exit emu button and 5+6 for the power button.

                                        I edited the post - try putting the reset pins (brown/red) on the original position and change the GPIO number from 3 to 33 (or just copy the edited script).

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                                          O.M.A.A @mitu
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                                          @mitu I put the 2 wires back to the same position and I edited the file from 3 to 33, but didn't work

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                                          • cyperghostC
                                            cyperghost @O.M.A.A
                                            last edited by

                                            @O-M-A-A Please remeber to do a restart after every change!

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