How to restart ES from a script?

TMNTturtlguy

@meleu Not a problem! No rush, I appreciate all the help. Thanks

cyperghost

@TMNTturtlguy I think first @meleu should take a look on your script. If there are still issues with it then I build a "restart binary" based on my script but that will analyze processes and kills always the right one ... so there are no future issue okay?

But I think Master meleu finds an easy solution....

TMNTturtlguy

@cyperghost i agree! I appreciate both of your guys help. In the mean time i will keep tinkering with it and the script works fine without the auto restart function. You just have to manually restart, so for the time being I can still accomplish what I want.

meleu

@TMNTturtlguy out of curiosity: you need a keyboard to choose an option on your script, right? Or is it able to get input from joystick?

TMNTturtlguy

@meleu the way it is written now it works from joystick/controller. The whole point is that i want to be able to make the ES changes without a keyboard. It works great right now with joystick and ps4 controller, less the restart issues. Thanks

meleu

@TMNTturtlguy said in How to restart ES from a script?:

@meleu the way it is written now it works from joystick/controller.

This is curious. I can't see any mention to joy2key in your script. And joy2key is the tool responsible to convert the up/down/left/right on d-pad to up/down/left/right key presses (and A button to <enter>).

Can you confirm that you navigate through your dialog menu using the up/down in your joystick and select an option with the button A?

cyperghost

@meleu
Yes It's working with D-Pad A and B
even this minimal menu works

#!/bin/bash
# Bash Menu Script Example

dialog --clear --backtitle "Backtitle here" --title "Title here" --menu "Choose one of the following options:" 15 40 4 \
1 "Option 1" \
2 "Option 2" \
3 "Option 3"

cyperghost

@meleu @TMNTturtlguy @BuZz Man I'm so ....
pkill -n emulationstatio always kills the newest process that the short version what my script exactly does. With all advantages and disadvantages - but the shortest script ;)

I should more RTFM

meleu

@cyperghost said in How to restart ES from a script?:

@meleu
Yes It's working with D-Pad A and B

Really neat! :-) It seems to be a cool RetroPie feature, because if you launch the script directly from command line you can't use joystick for that.

pkill -n emulationstatio always kills the newest process that the short version what my script exactly does. With all advantages and disadvantages - but the shortest script ;)

Maybe we can make a video like this below replacing pumpkin by emulationstation:

cyperghost

@meleu Is this always the same pumpkin? I think a pumpkin always got's seven lives.

meleu

@cyperghost said in How to restart ES from a script?:

@meleu Is this always the same pumpkin? I think a pumpkin always got's seven lives.

I think one is a binary, two or three are scripts, and the others were launched in an infinite loop inside some of those scripts.

mediamogul

@meleu

What about Schrödinger's pumpkin?

TMNTturtlguy

@meleu @cyperghost I tried to create the restart function as a separate choice from the menu, thus you first pick an option for which config file to load and then choose to restart. I tested with several of the variations of the restart command and each time I get similar results. The script works fine, but after running it, the start/quit menu runs an auto restart, no different than when the restart command is within the actual config change function. I am at a loss, like charlie brown waiting for the great pumpkin to appear :)

meleu

@TMNTturtlguy what's the version of your RetroPie-Setup? It must be 4.2.8+

TMNTturtlguy

@meleu I am not at my pi right now, but i updated again about 12 hours ago, so it is the current version as of then.

cyperghost

Added new possibilities to ES RESTART THREAD

meleu

@cyperghost Wow! We're looking like a bunch of murderers... There are many threads showing that there are many ways to kill EmulationStation. And I suspect the most promising is this one.

TMNTturtlguy

@cyperghost said in How to restart ES from a script?:

Added new possibilities to ES RESTART THREAD

I just checked the thread and I am not clear what edits you made today? We have gone through so many ways to kill (per @meleu) that i can't keep what codes are what, and what new possibilities you added/modified.

Thanks

cyperghost

@meleu That looks really promising ... But AS you know I am not a scraper. Indeed the caurosel view is fine. Maybe in not a far future all databases are setted to SQL and then it is easier to exchange ready scraped Databases. What do you think?

@TMNT in the thread are all working scripts listed inkl. how to and version numbering