Please Test: Adding support for "All", "Favorites" and "Last Played" systems

red2blue

@pjft hey man I'm super confused and I don't quite understand github and compiling...

So how do I incorporate your features on to my pi?? I really want the favorites thing and the power saving thing..

Also since we're on the subject how do I grab things from github branches and put it into my pi??? Like when I go under comments for let's say retropie github and people add fixes or features how do I put that onto my pi?

red2blue

@pjft how do I update it to make it do this from main repository

Hex

@red2blue All you have to do is update emulationstation from source in Retropie setup and it will have this feature as it has been incorporated into main repo

red2blue

@Hex oh sweet!! Does it come with your power saving thing as well??

Do i need to take my emulationstayion off kids mode? Which themes are supported?

Also can you help me on loading github requests pulls or whatever it's called onto my pi?

Hex

@red2blue said in Please Test: Adding support for "All", "Favorites" and "Last Played" systems:

@Hex oh sweet!! Does it come with your power saving thing as well??

No

Do i need to take my emulationstayion off kids mode? Which themes are supported?

I dont have any experiance with kids mode. is it a setting or a different install altogether. @meleu can you answer this

Also can you help me on loading github requests pulls or whatever it's called onto my pi?

Which PR are you interested in? https://github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation/pulls

red2blue

@Hex Emulation Station Kids Mode is another type of Emulation station you can install, before.. thats what you were suppose to use for the favorites thing.

a PR i would like to install would be yours, haha https://github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation/pull/172

So how would i do that?

Hex

@red2blue My PR is currently in heavy testing. I would suggest you not use it unless you are confident enough to report and run test code on your system. Also I have not tested it with recently merged PRs so it might have some bugs. You can test out a clean build from my branch feature-powersaver using meleu's script

red2blue

@Hex said in Please Test: Adding support for "All", "Favorites" and "Last Played" systems:

feature-powersaver

can you explain how i can test out the clean version? but you said its still in heavy testing right?

Hex

yes it is in testing that means it is ready for beta testing. The feature is nearly complete and only bug fixes are remaining if bugs are found.

You can use this script by @meleu : https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/10626/es-devs-and-testers-this-tool-is-for-you

In repo : http://github.com/hex007/EmulationStation
in branch : feature-powersaver

The script will compile and give you an option to install.

red2blue

does this feature come with the latest build on emulation station?? so i can still use the new favorite system?

meleu

@red2blue said in Please Test: Adding support for "All", "Favorites" and "Last Played" systems:

does this feature come with the latest build on emulation station?? so i can still use the new favorite system?

Update from source. I think that in a couple of days you can get it updating from binary. But since the PR was merged a few hours ago, I'm not sure if the binary version was updated.

pjft

Correct. Also, if you install this, you'll lose the kids mode features.

Hex

@pjft @meleu I havent updated my PS branch so it doesnt have the latest commits with these systems. I will have to test the functionality after updating.

Have you tried the latest commit for PS? I have got the description scrolling. Can you verify the behaviour?

red2blue

@pjft Oh sweet, so if i update Emulationstation from source it will remove kids mode?? been trying to figure out how to uninstall it without ruining anything

cyperghost

You can make backup of current binary emulationstationin opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/
If you like kids mode more then just copy it back.

red2blue

@cyperghost thanks man!

so im updating ES from source and its stuck at 86% building CXX object... what should i do? restart and redo?

pjft

@Hex I haven't had the chance, apologies. Should be able to look into it in the coming days, potentially Monday in as worst case scenario.

I'll let you know how it goes.

Thank you.

red2blue

@pjft @pjft Oh sweet, so if i update Emulationstation from source it will remove kids mode?? been trying to figure out how to uninstall it without ruining anything

red2blue

Okay.. This is the 2nd time i tried updating from source and it froze at 84% and turned off my network on my Pi.. basically i cant SSH or SAMBA and on my Pi itself its stuck at 84%

the line its at is

[84%] Building CXX object es-app/CMakeFiles/emulationstation.dir/src/guis/GuiFastSelect.cpp.o

cyperghost

@red2blue Make backup of your current binary BEFORE compiling!