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    Power On/Off Option in Main Menu

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    • chicueloC
      chicuelo @cyperghost
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      @cyperghost
      Thanks! let me know if you find any issue

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      • cyperghostC
        cyperghost @chicuelo
        last edited by cyperghost

        @chicuelo Yes it was so easy! ;)
        Just add an &- changed the scripts ... they worked flawless in my testing area ;)
        I didn't work because of following....

        You start a bash script within ES (that's the same as an emulator call for ex)
        Now you start annother script that will shutdown ES. But the first script (started via ES) is still active and waits for the shutdown script to exit ----->> You are bu... terminated!

        It's just an ironic... because the orginal NESPi+ script works the same way. As long an emulator is active in background there will be never clean shutdowns ;) But with the multi_switch you can do really fine things like prober shutdown with the an extended python script based on the NESPi+ ones

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        • chicueloC
          chicuelo @cyperghost
          last edited by

          @cyperghost said in Power On/Off Option in Main Menu:

          extended python script based on the NESPi+ ones

          Thanks @cyperghost , where I have to add the &? in the reboot and power scirpt?

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          • cyperghostC
            cyperghost @chicuelo
            last edited by cyperghost

            @chicuelo No... take a look here

            You have to send the multi_switch to background, then the ES called reboot or shutdown script will finish and my script makes the work ;)

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            • chicueloC
              chicuelo @cyperghost
              last edited by

              @cyperghost
              Worked like a charm! thank you very much!

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              • cyperghostC
                cyperghost
                last edited by cyperghost

                @chicuelo This little tool is very usefull. I make always use of it if some emulators are stuck (OpenBOR will not accept new controllers if they are disconnected) so make a SSH session via smartphone and just type multi_switch. --es-closeemu --> problem solved and you are back in ES main mode ;) You can close every emulator with this as long it was initiated by runcommand. Even KODI and PIXEL Desktop can be closed with this ;)

                And you can add it to any python script if you want ;)

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                • chicueloC
                  chicuelo @cyperghost
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                  @cyperghost
                  Lovely! I have some problems with lr-vice and this is very useful!

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                    Jste84 @pana
                    last edited by Jste84

                    @pana said in Power On/Off Option in Main Menu:

                    @battlecat Hey, did you figure it out?

                    I am explaining how to set it up anyway:

                    1. Download the compressed folder from the link provided in the video description

                      and unzip it.

                    2. It contain another folder called "Power Menu" which contain 4 folders ("Gamelist", "Images", "Rom", "Theme") and a file ("es_system.cfg").

                    3. Copy the contents of "Gamelist" to "~/.emulationstation/gamelists" ["~" is equivalent to writing "/home/your_user_name", say "/home/pi"]

                    4. Create a directory called "downloaded_images" inside "~/.emulationstation"

                    5. Copy the contents of "Images" to "~/.emulationstation/downloaded_images"

                    6. Copy the contents of "Rom" to "~/RetroPie/roms"

                    7. Copy the contents of "Theme" to "/etc/emulationstation/themes". Here you will need super user permission.

                    8. Copy the content of es_system.cfg (it's 9 lines of text); open the file /etc/emulationstation/es_system.cfg; paste the text to second last line (of course, as separate sentences as in the source; it must be before </systemList> tag and after </system> tag). Here also you will need super user permission.

                    9. Finally convert shutdown and reboot scripts within "~/Retropie/roms" into executable's by the commands:
                      a. chmod +x ~/RetroPie/roms/power/ashutdown.sh
                      b. chmod +x ~/RetroPie/roms/power/reboot.sh

                    10. Restart and you are done!

                    Really need some help with this.... Not sure what to do with step 9. Ive tried deleting the existing content in these scripts and adding the above... But no joy

                    I keep getting a message saying permission denied. Can anyone help

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                    • mituM
                      mitu Global Moderator
                      last edited by

                      @Jste84 said in Power On/Off Option in Main Menu:

                      I keep getting a message saying permission denied. Can anyone help

                      What are the permissions on those files ? Run

                      ls -l  ~/RetroPie/roms/power/
                      

                      and post the output.

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                        Jste84 @mitu
                        last edited by Jste84

                        @mitu edit

                        Total 64
                        -rwxr-xr-x 1 pi pi 36 Apr 26 03:30 ashutdown.sh
                        -rwxr-xr-x 1 pi pi 46 Apr 26 04:08 reboot.sh

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                        • mituM
                          mitu Global Moderator @Jste84
                          last edited by

                          @Jste84 said in Power On/Off Option in Main Menu:

                          -rwxr-xr-x 1 pi pi 36 Apr 26 03:30 ashutdown.sh
                          -rwxr-xr-x 1 pi pi 46 Apr 26 04:08 reboot.sh

                          The files are already executable, so there's no need to run the chmod command.

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                            Jste84 @mitu
                            last edited by Jste84

                            @mitu ok but when... I select the option to restart or shutdown on the menu... I get a message saying permission denied..

                            I've Def done something wrong..

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                              Jste84
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                              Is anyone able to help? I

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                                che_don_john @Jste84
                                last edited by

                                @Jste84 said in Power On/Off Option in Main Menu:

                                Is anyone able to help? I

                                Have you tried resetting the permissions for the two scripts? Seemed to work for me. Try:

                                sudo chown -R pi:pi /home/pi
                                

                                I'd really love to be add a third option for restarting Emulation Station. I added another .sh file to the rom folder called 'restart' and tried the following scripts:

                                #!/bin/bash
                                
                                sudo restart -r now
                                

                                and

                                #!/bin/bash
                                
                                sudo es-restart -r now
                                

                                No success with either. Any ideas?

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                                • mituM
                                  mitu Global Moderator @che_don_john
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                                  @che_don_john said in Power On/Off Option in Main Menu:

                                  sudo restart -r now

                                  There's no such command. You maybe want to run sudo reboot ?

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                                    che_don_john @mitu
                                    last edited by

                                    @mitu said in Power On/Off Option in Main Menu:

                                    @che_don_john said in Power On/Off Option in Main Menu:

                                    sudo restart -r now

                                    There's no such command. You maybe want to run sudo reboot ?

                                    Thanks, I'll try that.

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