@BuZz said in After update; RetroPie asks for login all of a sudden:

@3DMaster reread what @mitu wrote above. You are spelling raspberry wrong.

I shouldn't laugh... But 😂🤣

@ekdor A RetroPie configured system does not need a login to work, it logs automatically the pi user and starts Emulationstation. What's your actual problem ?

@allen8

If you're speaking about Kodi specifically, the key commands are actually universal between systems. Outside of that, they still remain very similar and sometimes even unchanged to those found elsewhere.

so just the pi/raspberry login then? well that was easy. odd that didn't come up in my search. thanks :)

@Izzii0x Welcome to this forum. Some friendly words of advice:

Please give us all the information about your system that's asked for in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first In general, it is advisable to open a new thread about your problem rather than to "necro" (forum slang) a thread that began 2½ years ago, as your problem could be caused by completely different things than those discussed here earlier.

Me too. That option in settings/retropie setup/configuration-tools/autostart/emulationstation at boot saved my day!!! Thanks!!!

Hopefully this helps you. But for us...

NOT using 5g wifi connection fixed FTP- and other issues- for us. Try 2.4 g instead.

5g is temperamental our experience. Maybe it's all the wireless stuff we have in and around our home and neighborhood that's causing issues... But, we've had experiences with other wireless devices gacking out or choking too (or just stopping working wirelessly), like iPhone, on 5g connections.

More info, for me:

I tried to set up FTP and it wouldn't work Then, struggling with it, suddenly it did work. Wat...? uh.. ok... Then, it frustratingly suddenly didn't, for an unknown reason. Pi was wiped (for another reason). Then, there was no FTP success for me at all.

And in my struggles after the wipe...

I could ping the Pi from other machines I could SSH into the Pi using its IP address from the Pi itself (ie: 192.160.1.95, or whatever). And I could SSH into 127.0.0.1 from the Pi itself (so SSH worked fine) I added extra FTP ports, just in case (sudo nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config), even odd/high ones just in case (like 44444). And yeah, I restarted ssh process server after the changes. No luck. I checked firewall to make sure nothing else was getting in the way. Then, peak ANGER: my husband could FTP to the pi, but I still couldn't!!! Not with Filezilla, and not with SublimeText SFTP, not with anything. No dice.

Then, out of the blue randomly, he complained that the 5g connection dropped on another unrelated device. That's when I checked my Pi, and there it was, "5G". On our wireless router we have 2 access points: one for 5g, and one for 2.4g. I then switched away from 5g for my connection, over to the 2.4g one instead, and instantly it worked!!

Also, just now as we're literally debugging the whole situation still this very moment, diddling around with 5g vs 2.4g, he told me that when he uses 5g on his Pi (we have two - he has one and i have one), his laptop's connection, which is also on 5g, totally fails and locks up.

Anyway, 5g and the Pi seem to be bad combination... at least that's what we've concluded so far in our efforts.

So, that's our story.

@RedOwen1177 Try ifconfig your Pis IP will / should show under wlan0

@backstander said in Connecting to "Open" Wifi:

When I saw the subject line I thought of you @mediamogul lol

Better this than "Local hoarder crushed to death by avalanche of 'Far Side' calendars. Survived his by 47 cats".

@BuZz got it, thanks