Transferring splash screens via USB from Windows

[Lummox JR]

I wanted to add some custom splash videos to my RetroPie. The USB thumb drive I have includes BIOS, configs, and roms folders, but nothing for splashscreens. However I had already installed the extra splashscreens package on my Pi, so in the filesystem there is a /home/pi/RetroPie/splashscreens directory--it just didn't exist on the USB.

In the hopes that I could copy those videos over, I created a splashscreens directory on the USB stick (G:\retropie\splashscreens) and copied my videos to that folder. However, the Pi won't copy its contents to the matching folder in its file system.

I did figure out a way to do this manually, by copying from /media/usb/retropie/splashscreens to ~/RetroPie/splashscreens, but what I'd really like is a way to do this automatically like I do with roms. So what I want to know is, where do I configure that?

BTW, due to the way my network is setup, using Samba or SCP/SFTP is not an option. I wish it were as it would make so many things easier, but it's not so please no suggestions along those lines.

[mitu]

@lummox-jr said in Transferring splash screens via USB from Windows:

So what I want to know is, where do I configure that?

There's nothing to configure, the USB transfer method does not include that folder.

However, the scripts executed when an USB is plugged in are found in /etc/usbmount/mount.d and you can add your own script to synchronize the splashscreens folder, just like the roms and BIOS folders are synced.
Take a look at the main script in /etc/usbmount/mount.d/01_retropie_copyroms as an example on how it's done.

[Lummox JR]

@mitu Thanks! I'll take a look into that tonight. Sounds like just what I'm looking for.