@tsimoes79 said in Sleep mode without disable network:

There is a way to get the ES to enter sleep mode without disable the network system? Or the USB ports?

ES power saving modes only work within the front-end, they don't have any effect on the system.
What you may encounter is the WiFi adapter going into power save and disconnecting. Try running

sudo iwconfig wlan0 power off

and see if the WiFi stays on. If that solves the issue, add the command to the start-up sequence so it's run every time the system boots.

Pressing select is equivalent to the screensaver-start event, sleep is triggered after the configured timeout.

If the controllers are wireless then they probably go to sleep and don't send any button presses to the Pi. If the Pi goes to sleep the controllers won't wake it up.

@JL-2600 UPDATE: I ending up trying to update to 4.6 again, but this time it updated only RetroPie and nothing else. Everything seems to be working just fine this time!

When I originally tried the update a few days ago, it also updated the emulators, so perhaps it was one of those emulator updates that was causing the problem.

Thanks!

I have this curse...both at home and I work. I can't figure out a problem to save my life. Then, after I publicly make an ass out of myself by asking...the situation just clears itself up, as if there is some sort of cosmic force at work who wants me to constantly humiliate myself. This situation seems to be no exception. Without changing a thing, it seems to be working the way I want it to the past day or so.

@sturbek I dunno about turning off a USB port, but if you are using a powered hub, you could trigger that on and off via GPIO as you suggest. Nothing is built into RetroPie to do this--you're gonna have to build something from scratch.

A recent MAKE article was published with details about how to go about it with a relay:
https://makezine.com/2018/03/19/control-electronic-relays/

@silicongraphics

Hi, no I never found a way to do this except using a type of Cron job to pop the machine into sleep at a specified time every night, just in case I forgot to press the power button on the machine to put it into standby or manually shut down ES. The Cron thing I tested about 6 months back but I cannot remember if it fully worked. I will pick it back up at some point in the near future as I've not played with the machine for a while.

If anyone has any idea how I can make ES obey the Ubuntu OS sleep settings while sat on the system select menu that would be awesome.

@akafox we were talking about the x86 build running on a PC, which if left on 24/7 consumes too much power and the system fans will keep running. The screensaver just dims the screen so isn't applicable here. Having ES obey the OS sleep settings would be good if you forgot to press the power button on the machine to sleep, shutdown manually via ES or whatever. I know with a Pi you can just leave it on 24/7 because of low power consumption, and this is fine, but using a PC there is a different requirement.

Cheers