"Kiosk mode" very slow to load!

Ramses

Hi everybody!

I have installed the "kids/kiosk mode" from experimental menu.

I turned ON the kiosk mode, and everything work perfectly in that "kiosk"mode, except that it take forever to load emulation station (I have to wait 9 min and 30 sec with the "LOADING..." screen on EACH reboot)

My question is: Is there any way to speed up loading of emmulationstation with KIOSK mode WITHOUT removing all my game?

Kiosk mode is a VERY NICE feature, but waiting 9min30 each time i boot/reboot is very anoying!

Thanks for your help :)

PS: Its is very slow when i want to shutdown system too!

AlexMurphy

@Ramses experimental menu That should tell you something... Still I have never heard of that sort of boot time. Set Parse Gamelist to OFF in the ES menu and see how that helps.

Ramses

Thanks for your help!

I have look at my menu and "Parse gamelist only"is already set to off

AlexMurphy

@Ramses Hmmm, that is the No.1 culprit for slow boot/shutdown times. Do other programs take a long time to load also? Or just ES?

Ramses

Just this one...

but i suspect something..

At first, kiost mode was not loading at all, and after doing a search, i found that it was because i was using a sub folder for 1 system, so i deleted this sub folder and now it load, but very slowly!

So it look like kiost mode dont like when there is a sub folder inside game folder,

So here is what i think: I have scrapped all my game with (universal scrapper V2) and now all my game folder now contain a sub folder that contain picture for game.. maybe "kiosk mode" dont like those picture subfolder?

My next step is to try to delete all those picture subfolder and try again.. what do you think of my idea?

AlexMurphy

@Ramses It certainly seems like a good start. There are other ways to hide elements of ES instead of using Kiosk Mode. A few xml file edits and you can hide quite a bit and limit tinkering from the uninvited. What is the "VERY NICE" feature that you are using Kiosk Mode for?

Ramses

@AlexMurphy said in "Kiosk mode" very slow to load!:

@Ramses It certainly seems like a good start. There are other ways to hide elements of ES instead of using Kiosk Mode. A few xml file edits and you can hide quite a bit and limit tinkering from the uninvited.

Ho! that very interesting! can you tell me witch file i have to edit to hide emunation menu item? If its possible to hide just by editing a file i prefer do that, that way i will save a lot of time because i will not have to troobleshoot my low booting speed with kiost mode!

AlexMurphy

@Ramses Yip. In es_systems.cfg you comment out the Retropie menu. Do you have an es_system.cfg file in /home/pi/.emulationstation? Find that and I will show you how to do it.

Ramses

@AlexMurphy said in "Kiosk mode" very slow to load!:

@Ramses Yip. In es_systems.cfg you comment out the Retropie menu. Do you have an es_system.cfg file in /home/pi/.emulationstation? Find that and I will show you how to do it.

Ok i have edit this file and i see a list of game platform, so for what i understand i can hide for exemple NES or GAMEBOY by removing the section, but in that file do not see how to hide item in menu (like hide the "scrap option" and other)?

pjft

@Ramses if you just want to remove specific platforms from the list you can just rename the platform folders, out move then inside an unused folder.

Still, @Zigurana (sorry for mentioning you out of the blue) might have some thoughts or suggestions as to why this may be happening.

A question: does it also behave like this in vanilla EmulationStation? How large is your library?

Best.

Ramses

and the es_system that i found was not in the directory you told me, it was in: /home/pi/RetroPie i do not found the file es_system in the directory that you told me

AlexMurphy

@Ramses Change this

  <system>
    <name>retropie</name>
    <fullname>RetroPie</fullname>
    <path>/home/pi/RetroPie/retropiemenu</path>
    <extension>.rp .sh</extension>
    <command>sudo /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_packages.sh retropiemenu launch %ROM% &lt;/dev/tty &gt;/dev/tty</command>
    <platform/>
    <theme>retropie</theme>
  </system>

TO THIS

<!--  <system>
    <name>retropie</name>
    <fullname>RetroPie</fullname>
    <path>/home/pi/RetroPie/retropiemenu</path>
    <extension>.rp .sh</extension>
    <command>sudo /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_packages.sh retropiemenu launch %ROM% &lt;/dev/tty &gt;/dev/tty</command>
    <platform/>
    <theme>retropie</theme>
  </system>  -->

And then Save, of course.

Ramses

@pjft said in "Kiosk mode" very slow to load!:

@Ramses if you just want to remove specific platforms from the list you can just rename the platform folders, out move then inside an unused folder.

Still, @Zigurana (sorry for mentioning you out of the blue) might have some thoughts or suggestions as to why this may be happening.

A question: does it also behave like this in vanilla EmulationStation? How large is your library?

Best.

How lage is my library? my 32gigs card is full of game...

AlexMurphy

@Ramses I told you to check there as that is where a custom file would be stored. If you do not have a custom file the system will look to /etc/emulationstation for the default. A custom es_systems.cfg file would be created if for eg you wanted to change the order of the systems as they appear in the ES carousel menu.

Ramses

@AlexMurphy said in "Kiosk mode" very slow to load!:

@Ramses Change this

  <system>
    <name>retropie</name>
    <fullname>RetroPie</fullname>
    <path>/home/pi/RetroPie/retropiemenu</path>
    <extension>.rp .sh</extension>
    <command>sudo /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_packages.sh retropiemenu launch %ROM% &lt;/dev/tty &gt;/dev/tty</command>
    <platform/>
    <theme>retropie</theme>
  </system>

TO THIS

<!--  <system>
    <name>retropie</name>
    <fullname>RetroPie</fullname>
    <path>/home/pi/RetroPie/retropiemenu</path>
    <extension>.rp .sh</extension>
    <command>sudo /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_packages.sh retropiemenu launch %ROM% &lt;/dev/tty &gt;/dev/tty</command>
    <platform/>
    <theme>retropie</theme>
  </system>  -->

And then Save, of course.

This modification just hide the retropie from the scroling menu.. but what i want is to hide some menu that peoples acces by pressing START button , you know the menu to scrap game and other?

AlexMurphy

@Ramses Yes. Do you only use controllers or do you also have a keyboard attached?

Ramses

@AlexMurphy

I have a keyboard too,

AlexMurphy

@Ramses Do you want to still be able to access these menus via the keyboard and just shut off their use via game controllers? Or do you want ALL access removed?

Ramses

@AlexMurphy said in "Kiosk mode" very slow to load!:

@Ramses Do you want to still be able to access these menus via the keyboard and just shut off their use via game controllers? Or do you want ALL access removed?

What i want is to hide some part of the menu. for exemple i want to be able to REBOOT SYSTEM, RESTART EMULATION STATION, and maybe CHANGE SOUND.. and want to hide item like : SCRAPER, UI SETTING, etc..

so if there is a file that contain menu, i can edit it and hide what i dosent want..

pjft

@Ramses I don't think there's one such file, but I might be mistaken. I think you're really looking for kiosk mode.

I am, however, surprised at the long load times. What does your EmulationStation of file contain after it loads?

Thanks.