Parental Controls

[zaront]

Hi,
I had a need for some basic monitoring and limiting tools for my RetroPie as I have it at home available to my whole family. I developed an add-on for this based on my needs. I spent the time to create an easy setup, update and removal scripts in the hopes that other might find this useful too.

https://github.com/zaront/RetroPie-Parental

It allows setting daily limits for each day of the week.
It also comes with a website for monitoring, viewing usage, all the parental stuff you'd expect.

It's nicely integrated into RetroPie with features like notifying the player of how much time they have left, and warning them before the game will shutdown. It also has some override feature, like a Konami-style code you can enter on the controller to get unlimited play, or the ability to remotely shutdown games.

here is a picture of what the website looks like from a phone

Does this sound useful to anyone else? Or is it just me who finds that my nostalgic games are more entertaining to my kids than their homework.

Are there any features you would like to have in Parental Controls for your RetroPie?
It would be interesting to discuss and see if I could incorporate your needs into this project

[recompile]

This is fantastic! Parental control features are far too often overlooked. Your efforts here are very much appreciated.

[makaras]

@zaront Thanks for your efforts and the new parental control features.
will come in very handy

[burholmelarry]

I created an account just to say thank you for this!