Power On/Off Option in Main Menu

cyperghost

@chicuelo Yes it was so easy! ;)
Just add an &- changed the scripts ... they worked flawless in my testing area ;)
I didn't work because of following....

You start a bash script within ES (that's the same as an emulator call for ex)
Now you start annother script that will shutdown ES. But the first script (started via ES) is still active and waits for the shutdown script to exit ----->> You are bu... terminated!

It's just an ironic... because the orginal NESPi+ script works the same way. As long an emulator is active in background there will be never clean shutdowns ;) But with the multi_switch you can do really fine things like prober shutdown with the an extended python script based on the NESPi+ ones

chicuelo

@cyperghost said in Power On/Off Option in Main Menu:

extended python script based on the NESPi+ ones

Thanks @cyperghost , where I have to add the &? in the reboot and power scirpt?

cyperghost

@chicuelo No... take a look here

You have to send the multi_switch to background, then the ES called reboot or shutdown script will finish and my script makes the work ;)

chicuelo

@cyperghost
Worked like a charm! thank you very much!

cyperghost

@chicuelo This little tool is very usefull. I make always use of it if some emulators are stuck (OpenBOR will not accept new controllers if they are disconnected) so make a SSH session via smartphone and just type multi_switch. --es-closeemu --> problem solved and you are back in ES main mode ;) You can close every emulator with this as long it was initiated by runcommand. Even KODI and PIXEL Desktop can be closed with this ;)

And you can add it to any python script if you want ;)

chicuelo

@cyperghost
Lovely! I have some problems with lr-vice and this is very useful!

Jste84

@pana said in Power On/Off Option in Main Menu:

@battlecat Hey, did you figure it out?

I am explaining how to set it up anyway:

Download the compressed folder from the link provided in the video description

and unzip it.

It contain another folder called "Power Menu" which contain 4 folders ("Gamelist", "Images", "Rom", "Theme") and a file ("es_system.cfg").

Copy the contents of "Gamelist" to "~/.emulationstation/gamelists" ["~" is equivalent to writing "/home/your_user_name", say "/home/pi"]

Create a directory called "downloaded_images" inside "~/.emulationstation"

Copy the contents of "Images" to "~/.emulationstation/downloaded_images"

Copy the contents of "Rom" to "~/RetroPie/roms"

Copy the contents of "Theme" to "/etc/emulationstation/themes". Here you will need super user permission.

Copy the content of es_system.cfg (it's 9 lines of text); open the file /etc/emulationstation/es_system.cfg; paste the text to second last line (of course, as separate sentences as in the source; it must be before </systemList> tag and after </system> tag). Here also you will need super user permission.

Finally convert shutdown and reboot scripts within "~/Retropie/roms" into executable's by the commands:
a. chmod +x ~/RetroPie/roms/power/ashutdown.sh
b. chmod +x ~/RetroPie/roms/power/reboot.sh

Restart and you are done!

Really need some help with this.... Not sure what to do with step 9. Ive tried deleting the existing content in these scripts and adding the above... But no joy

I keep getting a message saying permission denied. Can anyone help

mitu

@Jste84 said in Power On/Off Option in Main Menu:

I keep getting a message saying permission denied. Can anyone help

What are the permissions on those files ? Run

ls -l  ~/RetroPie/roms/power/

and post the output.

Jste84

@mitu edit

Total 64
-rwxr-xr-x 1 pi pi 36 Apr 26 03:30 ashutdown.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 pi pi 46 Apr 26 04:08 reboot.sh

mitu

@Jste84 said in Power On/Off Option in Main Menu:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 pi pi 36 Apr 26 03:30 ashutdown.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 pi pi 46 Apr 26 04:08 reboot.sh

The files are already executable, so there's no need to run the chmod command.

Jste84

@mitu ok but when... I select the option to restart or shutdown on the menu... I get a message saying permission denied..

I've Def done something wrong..

Jste84

Is anyone able to help? I

che_don_john

@Jste84 said in Power On/Off Option in Main Menu:

Is anyone able to help? I

Have you tried resetting the permissions for the two scripts? Seemed to work for me. Try:

sudo chown -R pi:pi /home/pi

I'd really love to be add a third option for restarting Emulation Station. I added another .sh file to the rom folder called 'restart' and tried the following scripts:

#!/bin/bash

sudo restart -r now

and

#!/bin/bash

sudo es-restart -r now

No success with either. Any ideas?

mitu

@che_don_john said in Power On/Off Option in Main Menu:

sudo restart -r now

There's no such command. You maybe want to run sudo reboot ?

che_don_john

@mitu said in Power On/Off Option in Main Menu:

@che_don_john said in Power On/Off Option in Main Menu:

sudo restart -r now

There's no such command. You maybe want to run sudo reboot ?

Thanks, I'll try that.