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    • Shadowjedi01

      Screensaver and Game Preview - No Audio
      Help and Support • screen saver no audio • • Shadowjedi01

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      Shadowjedi01

      @sleve_mcdichael Yes, I have actual in game audio.

      But no, none of the clicks associated with switching between games in ES.

    • ClassicGMR

      Video Screen Saver on a Pi 3B
      Help and Support • screensaver screen saver no video black screen • • ClassicGMR

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      sleve_mcdichael

      Far as I know, OMXolayer simply does not work together with game info displayed -- turn off one or both.

      The remaining videos, it's almost certainly the video format. Use one of the scripts linked above to convert your existing videos. See this post to setup Skyscraper to detect and convert wrong-format videos on initial download, for future scrapes.

    • churchill7

      Video Screen Saver - Set Specific Directory
      Help and Support • screensaver video screen saver • • churchill7

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      mitu

      No, at the moment this is not implemented in EmulationStation, the videos are always read from the gamelist.

    • soncle98

      Rom screensavers loop
      Help and Support • roms screen saver loop blackscreen • • soncle98

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      soncle98

      @mitu omxplayer accelerator was already on so i turned it off to see if it worked but it didn’t

    • PJ7

      Stop menu music on screensaver on retropie
      Help and Support • music screen saver stop • • PJ7

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      mitu

      @PJ7 Not really possible at the moment, because the music is not part of Emulationstation. In the future, it might be possible by adding a script for the 'sleep' /'screensaver-start' event in Emulationstation that would stop the music.

    • Brandito

      HDMI blanking when using OMX player with video screensaver
      Help and Support • omx 4.4 hdmi blanking screen saver • • Brandito

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      Brandito

      Disabling overscan and setting my display to 1:1 seems to have fixed the issue. Not sure what changed as I was using the same settings all this time and it suddenly had issue playing the videos.

      Thanks guys

    • ClassicGMR

      PS3 Controller / RetroPie / Screen Saver issue
      Help and Support • ps3 controller bluetooth screen saver • • ClassicGMR

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      Sano

      @classicgmr
      AFAIK RPi 3B+ has new BT chipset with flow control where RPi 3B doesn't.
      This feature limits the BT errors that generate random events.
      cf https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/2264

      So it's possible that the problem is not with your DS3.
      You could try to connect your white DS3 to the RPI 3B (not +) to verify this.

      jswim788 created this issue in raspberrypi/linux closed Bluetooth hci0 kernel issue #2264
    • grant2258

      can you add a script to run a command for a custom screensaver to turn monitor off
      Help and Support • retropie 4.3 screen saver • • grant2258

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      grant2258

      Well I had a look in the emulation station source seems es-core/src/PowerSaver.cpp and https://github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation/blob/master/es-app/src/SystemScreenSaver.cpp would need changed if there is no scripting support. Im going to look at that source a little more. It shouldn't take too much to add a option to add a script option. Like
      sh screensaver.sh on
      sh screensaver.sh off

      i really surprised its not got this option

    • mathrocks

      Video screensaver black screen
      Help and Support • screen saver video screensav • • mathrocks

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      mathrocks

      @jonnykesh
      Thanks to you both for your help on this!

    • fuzznuzzbit

      Run custom script on screensaver start and end
      Help and Support • screen saver screensaver screensavers • • fuzznuzzbit

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      cyperghost

      This would be possible if you check presence of OMXPlayer process. It's not an elegant method but it might work. But keep in mind you will loose opportunity to play video snapshots in gamelist

      So the better way would be an implementation into the C++ code of ES itslef.

      PSEUDOCODE

      #!/bin/bash # Run this script with root user or sudo command # Initiate GPIO x ouput # Exports pin to userspace echo x > /sys/class/gpio/export # Sets pin x as an output echo out > /sys/class/gpio/gpiox/direction while true do # Slow down the whole thing a bit sleep 5 # Suggest running oxmplayer instance omxpid=$(pgrep omxplayer) # Set GPIO x high > switch off screen [[ -n $omxpid ]] && echo "1" > /sys/class/gpio/gpiox/value # Set GPIO x low > switch on screen [[ -z $omxpid ]] && echo "0" > /sys/class/gpio/gpiox/value done
    • Dominus

      Video Screensaver
      Projects and Themes • screen saver • • Dominus

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      pjft

      @Dominus You may find the instructions to install it here:

      https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/8734/please-test-random-game-selection-launch-via-video-screensaver

      Mine is certainly based on his, so not many changes. You would do well in updating RetroPie as whole, yes, though EmulationStation will be different.

    • crono141

      Power Supply issues after screen off
      Help and Support • power supply screen saver performance lightningbolt • • crono141

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      AlexMurphy

      @crono141 No worries. Had a quick look at your set-up and it's complicated alright... I hope you enjoy troubleshooting!

    • BrockBoyts

      Screen Saver Idea
      Help and Support • rpi 2 screen saver idle • • BrockBoyts

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      Dominus

      @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.

    • PrimeBoy

      ScreenSaver change to logo
      Help and Support • screen saver screensaver • • PrimeBoy

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      PrimeBoy

      Sorry for the shameless bump, i am just desperate to change the screen saver to a company logo!