"Kiosk mode" very slow to load!

Ramses

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

@Ramses With those grey on white ES menus it is unfortunately ALL or NOTHING. They are hardcoded into Emulation Station's own code. This is not accessible unfortunately. To change this you would need to fork, rewrite and recompile the code.

Ho ok.. so look like i will have to re-install KIOSK and troobleshoot....

pjft

@Ramses the file should be in

~/. emulationstation/es_log.txt

(/home/pi is the same as ~ )

Try to get one after it loads without kiosk mode, and one with it. Maybe there's something useful there.

Ramses

@pjft

Ok i have take the file without kiosk

Now i install kiosk and take the file again after reboot

AlexMurphy

@Ramses Please read this for other options. Read all the comments and recommendations and decide what is best for you. https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/8442/my-anti-kid-mode/3

Ramses

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

@Ramses Please read this for other options. Read all the comments and recommendations and decide what is best for you. https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/8442/my-anti-kid-mode/3

Thanks for the link i have read it.. and i prefer use KIOST/KID mode.. so i'm actually re-installing it now.. maybe with the log i will found the problem that slow down everything

Ramses

Ok i have re-installed kiosk, reboot with kiosk and everything work (except is very slow!)

So i compared both es_log file: the only difference was the first line "date and time" But thats perfectly normal, and the LAST line.. when KIOST is installed last line say: "lvl0: Tried to use unset setting ShowHidden!"

I'm actually doing search on the web to find out more information about this error

AlexMurphy

@Ramses Doesn't seem major. Just something about what is hidden in the Kiosk Mode configs.

Ramses

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

@Ramses Doesn't seem major. Just something about what is hidden in the Kiosk Mode configs.

oh ok... so this log file do not help me at all....

Well... maybe i can try to remove all sub-folder and "gamelist" file rom every folder to see if the problem still there

AlexMurphy

@Ramses You said you were going to do that at the beginning!

Ramses

@AlexMurphy

lol i know! but i have not do that because i was looking for a better solution (like manualy hide some menu item or other) but look like its not possible.. so now its time to troobleshoot :)

AlexMurphy

@Ramses You should have done that 2 hours ago when you said you were going to do it! You should never listen to a word I say in future...

Ramses

Anyway, i have 3 SD card with the exact same image and a backup IMAGE of my working card, so its very easy for me to take one SD card and delete everything to do some test.. because i have backup on other SD card and an IMAGE of the SD card on my computer, so i do not loose anything by doing those kind of "test"

Ramses

Ok, guess what, now after deleting all my picture folder and all my gamelist.xml from every folder it took 1 min 30 to boot..

So:
50 second without KIOSK
9 Min 30 With KIOSK
And 1 min 30 With KIOSK but WITHOUT any gamelist.xml and picture folder...

1min 30 is still acceptable.. So i think the next step is to move all picture outside ROMS folder and edit every gamelist.xml to give new picture path... wow! a lot of work, and not sure if that will fix the issue or not!

AlexMurphy

@Ramses Good luck! It's going to be a long night...

Ramses

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

@Ramses Good luck! It's going to be a long night...

Thanks, yep.. but if i do a "search and replace" in every file, i can change every path in few second.. so its not too bad...

Anyway.. i'll work on that and i'll post the result here

Ramses

I have do many more test with that,

I discover that it took 9 min 30 to boot with the "Kiosk mode" installed.

But if i go in my \Roms folder and delete "gamelist.xml" from each system folder my raspberry now boot in 40 seconds!

Look like Kiost Mode dont like the "gamelist.xml" created with "universal XML scrapper"

I will try to scrap everything with the default emulationstation scrapper to see if it will work better...

Jeck11

I didn't see above but forgive me if I missed it. Have you disabled "Save Metadata On Exit" and enabled "Parse Gamelists Only"?

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/FAQ#why-does-shut-down-and-reboot-take-ages

Ramses

@Jeck11 said in "Kiosk mode" very slow to load!:

I didn't see above but forgive me if I missed it. Have you disabled "Save Metadata On Exit" and enabled "Parse Gamelists Only"?

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/FAQ#why-does-shut-down-and-reboot-take-ages

Yes i have played with those setting, here is the result i got:

BOOT TIME:

8 min 22 --> save metadata on exit = off parse gamelists only = on
8 min 25 --> save metadata on exit = off parse gamelists only = off
9 min 32 --> save metadata on exit = on parse gamelists only = off
9 min 35 --> save metadata on exit = on parse gamelists only = on

Here is some other result:
BOOT TIME

1 min 30 --> if no game is scrapped (if no picture/description/etc.. is attached to my game)
50 sec --> With all my library scrapped but NO KIOSK MODE INSTALLED

So the problem is that KIOSK/KIDS mode dont like when we add picture/description to large game library..

KIOSK MODE is a very nice feature, but it is too slow to be usable in my situation.. probably because of some option it has: like the posibility to block some game to kids, possibility to set some game in favorite, ETC... And because of those option, the raspbery boot VERRRRRRY SLOWLY. And i dont need all those option, i just want to prevent my friend to acces some menu item (like scrap the game and other).

So the only way for me to do what i want is to block the entire menu, but if i do that, i will have no way to "shutdown system" i will have to turn power off to do that and this can corrupt my SD card...

Rion

@Ramses This is more likely a bug. Maybe @Zigurana knows more about this.

Jeck11

@Ramses - OK sorry that didn't help. I'm currently using the kids/kiosk package as well but not seeing anywhere near the load times you are. I'm running on a Pi3 with 5k+ games and bootup and shutdowns are <30 seconds.