moonlight: request for comments and testing

jackalblood

Hi there Ive just installed moonlight for the first time on my retro pie and got everything setup fine right up to after I generated the configs all my games list and I restart retropie, but I'm not seeing any new menu items in emulation station and nothing but kodi in ports have I missed a step somewhere?

I've read the instructions a few times and I don't think I missed anything.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Thank you

hhromic

@jackalblood thanks for testing the scriptmodule and confirming it's working fine for you (at least until game file generation).

The scriptmodule creates a "Steam" system where it places all the moonlight config files (with .ml extension), contrary to Kodi or Steam that only have a single entry in the "Ports" system. You should be able to find a "Steam" system in your emulationstation alongside others such as "SNES" or "NES".

Maybe you are using a theme that doesn't support this system? In that case you should still be able to find it I think. If you are not using the default theme, can you switch to the Carbon included theme just to check if it's your theme or something else?

jackalblood

@hhromic I was actually using carbon already.

However I did get the menu item to show with the scripts present by running this script after your embedded one.

[link text]https://github.com/TechWizTime/moonlight-retropie(link url)

This made the menu item appear and the scripts work perfectly although streaming performance sucked as I was away and using VPN.

All in all thanks so much for your work I've tried everything to get moonlight working in the past (hence my remembering the above script)

hhromic

@Silent I improved the filename mangling functionality now. The option is no longer called "slugify" alone but more general "file name mangling". There are three options now for it: NONE, SLUGIFY and WINDOWS. The latter is less agressive than "slugify" and only removes/replaces characters to make the names windows-compatible (SMB shares and FAT32 filesystems). Give it a try and see if it improves scraping for you. This should be the last change before submitting to official RP :)

@jackalblood said in moonlight: request for comments and testing:

However I did get the menu item to show with the scripts present by running this script after your embedded one.
[link text]https://github.com/TechWizTime/moonlight-retropie(link url)
This made the menu item appear and the scripts work perfectly although streaming performance sucked as I was away and using VPN.

Umm that's strange. Maybe you are using a custom es_systems.cfg that overrides the system one in /etc/emulationstation?

I would strongly advise you to re-install moonlight using this scriptmodule here because the TechWiz version uses an outdated pre-built Moonlight binary.

Thanks for testing and the positive feedback, much appreciated!

hhromic

Update

Recently, preliminary rumble support was added to Moonlight in upstream!
To give it a try, just re-build Moonlight from source using this scriptmodule :)

Silent

@hhromic Thanks! Now scraping works well as usual :D
I even managed to scrape streamed PS2 games from screenscraper by giving them sha1 hashes manually, good stuff :)

hhromic

@Silent I'm glad it's finally working good for you and probably others too!
I think now is time to graduate the scriptmodule to the Official RP repo :)
Any other further issue you would like to report?

Silent

Seems all good now! I was unable to get rumble working with my DualShock 3 yet, but naturally that's nothing a scriptmodule can do :D

As far as I can tell, it should be good to be merged! I am able to use it both for "steam" and "ps2" platforms just fine myself. Time to say goodbye to limelight.

WarC0zes

Hi,
I can not start steam in big picture mode, it comes back in emulationstation.

my Steam.ml file:

config = /opt/retropie/configs/all/moonlight/global.conf
address = 192.168.1.3

What's the problem?

hhromic

@WarC0zes thanks for testing.

To further debug, can you please give the contents of the /dev/shm/runcommand.log file just after it goes back to emulationstation? It might be a long file so please use pastebin or similar.

WarC0zes

@hhromic

My runcommand.log :

Parameters: 
Executing: /opt/retropie/supplementary/moonlight/moonlight.sh stream -config "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/steam/Steam.ml"
Can't open configuration file: /opt/retropie/configs/all/moonlight/global.conf

my global.conf :

# global config file for moonlight
quitappafter = true
width = 1920
height = 1080
fps = 60
bitrate = 20000

my global.conf file is in /opt/retropie/configs/all/moonlight/

hhromic

@WarC0zes said in moonlight: request for comments and testing:

Can't open configuration file

That's very weird indeed. Can you please show the output of:

ls -la /opt/retropie/configs/all/moonlight

WarC0zes

@hhromic

pi@retropie:~ $ ls -la /opt/retropie/configs/all/moonlight
total 32
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 févr. 24 06:21 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 pi pi 4096 févr. 24 04:50 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 2430 févr. 20 16:57 client.p12
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 1082 févr. 20 16:57 client.pem
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi  107 févr. 24 06:21 global.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 1704 févr. 20 16:57 key.pem
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi   35 févr. 20 16:56 scriptmodule.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi   16 févr. 20 16:57 uniqueid.dat

hhromic

@WarC0zes umm.

Can you try executing it from the console intead of EmulationStation typing this directly:

/opt/retropie/supplementary/moonlight/moonlight.sh stream -config "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/steam/Steam.ml"

WarC0zes

@hhromic

pi@retropie:~ $ /opt/retropie/supplementary/moonlight/moonlight.sh stream -config "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/steam/Steam.ml"
Can't open configuration file: /opt/retropie/configs/all/moonlight/global.conf

hhromic

@WarC0zes very puzzling... let's try something more simple:

/opt/retropie/supplementary/moonlight/moonlight.sh stream -config /opt/retropie/configs/all/moonlight/global.conf

Can you also try typing it manually instead of copy/pasting, just in case?

WarC0zes

@hhromic

/opt/retropie/supplementary/moonlight/moonlight.sh stream -config /opt/retropie/configs/all/moonlight/global.conf

it works like that ^^

hhromic

@WarC0zes a-ha ! so we have a clue now.
Did you manually create the Steam.ml file in your $romdir/steam folder?
And if you did, you used your local computer and uploaded it there?

WarC0zes

@hhromic
Yes, i have manually create the Steam.ml file in my $romdir/steam folder.

hhromic

@WarC0zes ok as I thought :)

The problem are the line endings of the file you created. You must make sure your editor saves the file using unix line endings (\n) and not Windows nor Mac. Some editors such as notepad++ allow you to configure this.

An easy alternative is to create the files using nano in the same RetroPie console to ensure they have the proper unix line endings. You can also use the remote apps config file autogenerator included in the scriptmodule.

Let me know if that solved your issue.