YARMan Web (BETA)
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@daeks said in RetroPie WebGUI + Metadata Editor (BETA):
@herb_fargus @BuZz is it possible to pull https://retropie.org.uk/news/ with some kind of newsfeed / xml?
:-)
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I'd like to try this. How do I access this from my browser? I followed the instructions on https://github.com/daeks/RetroPie-WebGui.
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@J.Beau http://retropie/ or http://ip_of_your_device/
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@daeks Tried it, but didn't work (in Safari). Am I missing something?
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@J.Beau said in RetroPie WebGUI + Metadata Editor (BETA):
@daeks Tried it, but didn't work (in Safari). Am I missing something?
I checked the bash script and it looks like that there was a small mistake inside the sed commands. Think you need to fix it manually with
sudo nano /etc/apache2/envvarsand changeexport APACHE_RUN_USER=$user export APACHE_RUN_USER_GROUP=$userto your userid used (default: pi). After that restart apache with
sudo service apache2 restart. I already fixed that on the github version of the script. -
I would love these features in a web based management:
- File system manager
- Configuration editor
Do you have these in plan?
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@Arcuza yes, I want to copy all the functions which are currently available on the retropie/recalbox manager.
Currently my planned feature list includes- System Monitoring Dashboard (mostly done already)
- Browse and start/stop games from web frontend (design like the attract mode)
- Rom Management (Uploading, etc.)
- Rom Relations (find duplicates, find related games)
- Bios Management (Uploading etc.)
- Savegame Management
- Scraping (currently thinking on gamesdb, screenscraper.fr and google)
- Metadata Editor (done except automatic cleanup of gamelist/media objects)
- (Support of no-intro DAT files)
- Configuration Editor
- Log Viewer (maybe also some kind of "fetch all support infos for retropie forum" automatically)
- Raspberry / ES Management (Restart ES and reboot PI)
- (ES Theme Support)
- (Loading Image / Splashscreen Management)
- Administration Panel for WebGUI (for example for adding new gamelist metadata fields manually or changing paths, etc.)
- (Technical point: move from xml to SQLite for the webfrontend cause of performance)
Points in brackets are more or less some "internal" points which I have in mind but not sure if I can implement how I want to have them. Anyhow, as I am currently developing alone it might take some time for all points to implement :)
I organised all the open points on github: https://github.com/daeks/RetroPie-WebGui/projects/
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Omg - it would be awesone to have a "create support logs" option which also includes tge required details from the sticky.
Great work!
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@daeks said in RetroPie WebGUI + Metadata Editor (BETA):
@J.Beau said in RetroPie WebGUI + Metadata Editor (BETA):
@daeks Tried it, but didn't work (in Safari). Am I missing something?
I checked the bash script and it looks like that there was a small mistake inside the sed commands. Think you need to fix it manually with
sudo nano /etc/apache2/envvarsand changeexport APACHE_RUN_USER=$user export APACHE_RUN_USER_GROUP=$userto your userid used (default: pi). After that restart apache with
sudo service apache2 restart. I already fixed that on the github version of the script.That worked, kinda. It shows me the Apache2 Debian Default Page. We're getting closer :)
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Wow, this looks awesome! I do have the question, though, which is whether having Apache running in the background takes a meaningful toll on the Pi's performance and memory or not.
But I'm keeping an eye on this. Using Sublime so far:p
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@J.Beau great :) how does the content of
/var/www/html/look like? maybe you should rerun the script after update. The content from the repro should be locatated at/var/www/html/(assuming you are using a PI3) -
@pjft said in RetroPie WebGUI + Metadata Editor (BETA):
Wow, this looks awesome! I do have the question, though, which is whether having Apache running in the background takes a meaningful toll on the Pi's performance and memory or not.
@BuZz already suggested to switch to the php integrated webserver, but I am no bash guru :). Starting the process in the background, pushing output somewhere, etc...
as far as I figured out it could be started with
php -S "$(hostname -I):8001" -t "/var/www/html" > /dev/null 2>&1 & -
@daeks said in RetroPie WebGUI + Metadata Editor (BETA):
@J.Beau great :) how does the content of
/var/www/html/look like? maybe you should rerun the script after update. The content from the repro should be locatated at/var/www/html/(assuming you are using a PI3)After some tinkering, I removed everything and followed the instructions again. It's working great in Safari now :) Thanks!
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@BuZz said in RetroPie WebGUI + Metadata Editor (BETA):
How about just using something like the built in php webserver? - primarily for development and shouldn't be used for any public site - but it should be enough for this, and you can avoid messing around with installing a full webserver etc. eg
What do you think on that approach? https://github.com/daeks/RetroPie-WebGui/blob/master/scriptmodules/supplementary/webgui_default.sh
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@daeks the install function seems to be copying from md_inst to md_build (the wrong direction ?).
I would checkout directly to "$md_inst" - in fact you can just have a single install_bin_webgui function which does the git clone - keeps it simple.
it will need a remove function that removes it from /etc/rc.local - there are some bash things that I would change too, but looks much better and simpler without the apache stuff.
Cheers.
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@BuZz Have changed it again. Hopefully everything is now fine :)
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@daeks almost :) - the configure and remove need a few changes - if you submit it as a PR once you are ready I will advise - easier then as I can reference code lines.
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Just as a note here: I have rebranded the whole app with a more individual untaken name to avoid naming conflicts with other "web guis".
The name will be "YARMan Web (Yet Another RetroPie Manager)"
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@daeks I love it. :)
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Looks brilliant. I'll have to find time test the latest changes though I'll defer to Jools for the setup script integration.
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