Screen Saver and Boot questions

jebbett

So I have been working on the project linked below, which basically means that my RetroPie setup is a digital picture frame, 90% of the time and then an arcade machine the rest of the time..

I have set the Screen Saver and the Splash Screen to randomly pick a photo from a directory on the SD card.

But there are some issues, so to make this more seamless, I am looking for advice:

The Emulation Station boot screen shows just after the splash screen, anyway to hide this?
The screen saver takes 1 minute to kick in from first boot, ideally I'd like this to go direct in to the screen saver on first boot, then take 1 minute the rest of the time.

Link to my project: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/15943/project-picture-frame-arcade

Any help and advice appreciated!

mitu

@jebbett said in Screen Saver and Boot questions:

The Emulation Station boot screen shows just after the splash screen, anyway to hide this?

Add the --no-splash argument in the autostart script, to the command that triggers Emulationstation. To make ES start faster, toggle the Parse gamelists only option (https://retropie.org.uk/docs/FAQ/#why-does-shut-down-and-reboot-take-ages) so that ES will not read the disk.

The screen saver takes 1 minute to kick in from first boot, ideally I'd like this to go direct in to the screen saver on first boot, then take 1 minute the rest of the time.

Don't know about this one, but you could forcibly change the time on the system :) to make the screensaver kick in. You could add this to the autostart script, you could add an & after the emulationstation command to have it run in the background and to be able to add a 2nd command for time warping.

jebbett

@mitu great thanks! That sorts the splash screen, I’ll give it a go tomorrow...

Not sure about the clock thing, but that’s one way I guess :) ... I’m thinking possibly a similar workaround and creating a script with a delay which then triggers the key press to manually start the screensaver.. need to do some googling I think!

jebbett

@mitu said in Screen Saver and Boot questions:

Add the --no-splash argument in the autostart script

Spot on! much nicer load now!

jebbett

@mitu

I've also solved the screen saver problem and added a script to trigger and Enter Key press, 8 seconds triggers this about 2 seconds after loading..

I've created a script to emulate the key press.. updated the post below:

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/post/129603