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    Power On/Off Option in Main Menu

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

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        Jste84 @pana
        last edited by 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:

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

          and unzip it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

        8. 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.

        9. 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

        10. 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

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        • mituM
          mitu Global Moderator
          last edited by

          @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.

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            Jste84 @mitu
            last edited by 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

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            • mituM
              mitu Global Moderator @Jste84
              last edited by

              @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.

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                Jste84 @mitu
                last edited by 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..

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                  Jste84
                  last edited by

                  Is anyone able to help? I

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                    che_don_john @Jste84
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                    @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?

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                    • mituM
                      mitu Global Moderator @che_don_john
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                      @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 ?

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                        che_don_john @mitu
                        last edited by

                        @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.

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