@mitu Nearly forget that there is a WIP PR ;) I think this can be a usefull addition to our installations now.

@zzz

Thanks for your solution, it's doing most of the job for me, but neither of my joysticks seem to wake the device back up. A keyboard stroke does wake the device though.

They are cheapo $40 amazon joystick kits, registering as js0/js1. Pi 3b+.

I tried OP's script, but it appears to not stay off for more than a couple seconds.

Were you able to find a workaround perhaps?

@drake999 said in EmulationStation Consuming 65% CPU on Idle:

I'm finding that the EmulationStation process is consistently consuming about 65% of the CPU resources while idle on a stationary menu screen.

With or without videos? If the latter, did you enable the OMX player in Other Settings of ES' Main Menu?

Maybe someday... but not today. (sigh)

It's not a fake sd card but I think I have confirmed it is a faulty unit. I decided to look in the vendor's, adafruit support forums and found this. https://forums.adafruit.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=109254&p=545910&hilit=freeze+pi#p545910
It seems im not the only one having this issue, I have since contacted them for a replacement or return and now im just waiting on their reply. Thank you everyone.

@fieldofcows Any update on this yet? There was a thread (but I can't seem to find it anymore) that stated how to get this going. I tested it, but it wasn't working correctly when I tried to shutdown ES. I wanted to give it a go now and see if things have changed.

@thord I did what you said and the problem persists. I'm on my original install of 4.0.2 on a Pi 3b. Should I try to update all installed packages? Why am I asking? That's what I'm going to try anyway. With this problem I've also noticed that my iclever bluetooth, mini keyboard will function during a dreamcast game, but only in the command prompt (which displays along with the game for glitchy reasons I presume). The game won't respond to the keyboard after idle. I might try plugging a usb ibuffalo snes pad. Wonder if it works to plug it in after the idle glitch. I also wonder if my iclever keyboard, bluetooth dongle is interfering with the on chip bluetooth.