@mitu said in Restart ES via bash script!:

@paffley You should start a new topic.

Thanks @mitu I solved my problem so no need to start a new topic. I also changed from rm/cp to the grep command to edit the existing es_settings.cfg

I did the above so I could change themes from within the retropie system whilst in Kiosk mode, also have done the same for screen ratio's and overlays :)

Cheers!

@Hex https://github.com/miroof/node-virtual-gamepads was updated a month ago, the other one not, but if it works? :)

just reinstalled retropie... SOLVED!

@johne79 said in Boss Key:

EmulationStation takes over the ALT-F7 an

not really a solution, but an idea: take a screenshot of your desktop while doing actual work, and use that as an overlay you can toggle along with mute, via hotkey combo :)

edit: just had another thought: a script your could call with a hotkey that saves your game state and kills the emulator, starts up a work related app/project file, etc.

@pjft Thanks for checking it out. I haven't had a chance to try out the video screensaver on Windows yet, but I will try to do it soon.

CRT... I watched a fun video on those TVs before... just incase anyone is interested, here it is.

@herb_fargus I found that relying on sleep to properly time a 30 second video was getting mixed results so I modified your script a little to crop the video afterward for a more uniform recording length.

It requires that you install ffmpeg beforehand though.

#!/usr/bin/env bash system="$1" emulator="$2" rompath="$3" launch="$4" rom_file="${rompath##*/}" rom="${rom_file%.*}" mediadir="$HOME/RetroPie/roms/$system/images" tmpfile="/tmp/$rom-video.mkv" videofile="$mediadir/$rom-video.mkv" # Create videos folder in system's rom folder if [[ ! -d "$mediadir" ]]; then mkdir -p "$mediadir" dialog --msgbox "$mediadir created!" 20 60 >/dev/tty fi # Launch to record gameplay on RetroArch Systems. if [[ "$launch" =~ retroarch ]]; then eval "$launch" "--record \"$tmpfile\"" & sleep 120 killall retroarch # Crop video to 30 seconds eval "ffmpeg -y -t 30" "-i \"$tmpfile\"" "-acodec copy \"$videofile\"" & exit 1 else dialog --msgbox "Video recording is not supported for this system" 20 60 >/dev/tty fi

@Finndersen The feature is already implemented in latest ES. In Sound Settings change audio device to "Speaker" and omx audio device try both ALSA options to see which works. Let me know how it goes.

Many thanks @herb_fargus

I updated es from source and this is resolved.

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@TMNTturtlguy Thanks - same wishes to you, especially with no power at the moment.

Yeah, I can't wait for the first bug reports to start coming up... :P

I should actually start a page in the documentation for Video Players and the Random Game Screensaver as well. That should save quite a bit.

One more thing for my to do list.

@cafarellidigital
I'm pretty sure this is part of this discussion on overhauling how themes are handled.

https://github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation/issues/132

Also sad about grid view.

@meleu That is a valid point.

I cannot get this removed. I try sudo apt remove python-es-bgm and I get

dpkg: error processing package python-es-bgm (--remove): subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: python-es-bgm E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Any ideas? I actually cannot install or uninstall anything, this error from the particular package keeps appearing!

Edit: nevermind, I removed it from /var/lib/dpkg/status and did a dpkg --configure -a. I hope it's clean now...

@meleu I use emulated arm chroot with qemu on x86_64 pc with ubuntu, but also cross compiler on the host via distcc. (I don't have time to do any write up but there are some on the net).

@Hex Glad to hear it works as an option :)

Thanks for putting this together, and thank you for helping with the testing!

@LiveFastCyYoung Glad to hear that was sorted. 160 - or 16 - would have certainly been a problem.

I doubt that would have impacted ES from source, though, as this is just about GPU memory, but I don't know much - maybe you have other things there that are impacting the overall memory.

Glad this is sorted now.

@meleu said in ES devs and testers, this tool is for you!:

but if EmulationStation development is still hot

Not so much these days.

The script could probably be simplified, since there is branch support in RetroPie-Setup scriptmodules directly and RetroPie-Setup automatically checks for new changes to the branches (letting you know if you should update from source or have the latest source version).

P.S. Happy New Year !