YARMan Web (BETA)

[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?