YARMan Web (BETA)

Jeck11

@daeks - Great rework! Love the look and very useful.

I've noticed something and wanted to share to see if it's something I'm doing wrong or a bug. I'm not getting my previews to show up:

screenshot examp

I have a feeling it's because I used @screech's Universal XML Scraper V2. This puts the images in the roms folder (ie - \\retropie\roms\psx\downloaded_images\Crash Bandicoot-image.png) instead of under configs.

daeks

@Jeck11 yes, that is the issue. Thanks for the input, as soon as I have reworked everything for the SQLite implementation, I will fix that :)

Jeck11

@daeks - NP, wish I could help with the code to actually fix the issue. Don't have the skills.

Also a recommendation - It would be great to have the ability to filter the game listing based on specific text as well to find games faster:

current filter options

daeks

@Jeck11 You're welcome but that fix is quite simple. Would do it right now, but have to rewrite a couple things as I am struggling a bit with performance issues on large gamelists ( > 4000 entries). So it will take a while :(

Regarding the filter, I have noted that. I am thinking currently on including some kind of searchbar or something else.

Jeck11

@daeks - I think that would probably work even better.

I was experiencing crash when I tried to run the scrape over my entire collection 5k+. That's probably what you're referring to.

daeks

This would be my complete rewrite of the metadata editor:

Emulator has to be synced with YARMan by new button on the left side of the emulator selection (that includes parsing folder and existing gamelist.xml)
(This will be done on first startup automatically)
Each change will be saved to internal database first (not to gamelist.xml)
Gamelist.xml has to be exported by new button on the right side of the emulator selection
Single Rom can be synced with existing gamelist.xml entry by a new button on the right side (near the save button)
(Fields to be exported can be selected)

daeks

Currently I am facing some issues while restarting the emulationstation from yarman. Anyone can help?
After restarting with export HOME=/home/pi && emulationstation > /dev/null 2>/dev/null & I can not start any game.
No runcommand loading screen will show up and I will be returned to ES.

Nothing is in the es_log or runcommand.log:

lvl2: 	 req sound [detailed.launch]
lvl2: 	   (missing)
lvl2: 	Attempting to launch game...
lvl2: 		/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 _SYS_ atari7800 /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/atari7800/Alien\ Brigade\ \(Europe\).a78
lvl2: 	Creating surface...
lvl2: 	Created window successfully.
lvl2: 	Added known joystick 8Bitdo NES30 Pro (instance ID: 0, device index: 0)

Parameters: 
Executing: /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-prosystem/prosystem_libretro.so --config /opt/retropie/configs/atari7800/retroarch.cfg "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/atari7800/Alien Brigade (Europe).a78" --appendconfig /dev/shm/retroarch.cfg

meleu

@daeks What's the point on restarting emulationstation via yarm?! I can't see a use case for it...

daeks

@meleu running es overwrites gamelist.xml, therefore it needs to be quited. Anyhow, nobody has to use it if he does not need it ;) - Nevertheless, I am struggling to start a game after restarting es as mentioned above.

meleu

@daeks As I reported on yarman issue tracker, the I had some issues when trying to install it on RetroPie x86 (Linux Mint 18.1).

daeks

sqlite implementation is finished so far.
Currently doing some deeper tests before releasing it. It can be already tested on the sqlite branch.

The biggest issue I have is the execution time for hashing roms all at once during the sync/setup process. Tests on a very large romset resulted in script timeouts and the general process takes too long - Thinking on dat support later on, I currently struggle a bit how to solve that. Maybe some cron job?

Shakz

@Jeck11 You can change that setting in the config menu so that it puts the art in the correct folder rather than the roms directory.

daeks

I have released a new version of YARMan Web. Please update the scriptmodule before updating.
Please be aware that some modules are still BETA.

Note: YARMan Web is currently only tested on Raspberry 3B with latest RetroPie installation.

Changelog:

-- [FIX] Config Editor strips content in some circumstances
-- [FIX] Image / Video preview uses proper path from xml tag
-- [FIX] Better HTML5 upload dialog & error handling
-- [FIX] Restarting ES didnt work

-- [NEW] SQLite Implementation
-- [NEW] Quick Setup on first startup
-- [NEW] Dynamic Administration Panel
-- [NEW] Emulator Configuration
-- [NEW] Database Management

-- [CHANGE] Dashboard rewrite with dynamically loaded widgets
-- [CHANGE] New Metadata Editor (no direct save on gamelist.xml)
-- [CHANGE] Rom hashing preparation for DAT support
-- [CHANGE] Performance Improvements and several minor points

Some impressions:

robertybob

Looks amazing!

Shakz

This is excellent work.
I got the default apache page at first accessing http://retropie
I just needed to move the default index.html to a diff filename then index.php was selected by default.
mv /var/www/html/index.html /var/www/html/old.index.html
after that popped right up. :-)

cyperghost

@daeks What a pitty I just discovered this piece of WEBGUI sooo late :(

peter_shaw

I just discovered this, judging from the screenshots this is exactly what i've been looking for. retropie doesn't support php5 anymore.
I installed php7 + sql3 manually (edited the install script to not check for php5 dependencies) but it doesn't seem to work. no files are inside /www. anyone can help?