RetroPie-Manager web app (Recalbox-Manager fork/mod)

Botolo

@meleu said in RetroPie-Manager web app (Recalbox-Manager fork/mod):

@Botolo Well... It's really a server (a system that responds to requests across a computer network to provide a service). But we don't care about these formalities! Name it as you like ;-)

I know it's a server, but I don't wont to let people think you need to install a new server :D

Drakaen391

@Botolo Do you mind if I modify it myself to port in my Backup/restore script into it?

I like the interface makes things alot smoother then the current way of doing things

meleu

@Drakaen391 said in RetroPie-Manager web app (Recalbox-Manager fork/mod):

@Botolo Do you mind if I modify it myself to port in my Backup/restore script into it?

Hey! It's on github man! There is no need to ask for it!
Just fork and play with the code. If you think your changes are usefull and want to share, do a Pull Request so we can see what you did.

Botolo

Sure, you can do whatever you want :)
I'm playing around with django now because I'd like to understand what's under the hood. It's possible in the future I'll release a new version (with another repo of course) not forked from Recalbox Manager and completely written from scratch.

I'd like to extend it's functions so we will be able to manage rom subfolders (1 level i think) and play around some more with roms and files.

Any request from you?

simbz23

Hey guys,

Love the web interface, install worked perfectly. Only problem I am having is with autostart. I followed the instructions to start on boot, and its not working. I added this line to autostart.sh:

/home/pi/RetroPie-Manager/rpmanager.sh --start --user pi 2>&1 &
emulationstation #auto

Web manager doesn't start at boot. I know the path to is correct, and I also tried removing the "2>&1 &", and still doesn't work. Any ideas? :-/

RetroPie 4.0 RC1
Pi3
Logitech F310

meleu

@simbz23
I'm not used to use the autostart feature., but I would like to help you with it.

Can you change the line on your autostart.sh to this?:

/home/pi/RetroPie-Manager/rpmanager.sh --start --user pi 2>&1 > /tmp/rpmanager.log

And then paste the /tmp/rpmanager.log here.

meleu

@herb_fargus
Did you give up that RetroPie scriptmodule for RetroPie-Manager installation?
If yes, would you mind if I try to finish it?

simbz23

Thanks for the reply @meleu !

Ran the command like you asked, and the log file was created after a reboot of the pi3, but has nothing inside of it? :-/

herb_fargus

@meleu this is as far as I got with it:

https://github.com/HerbFargus/RetroPie-Setup/blob/742d55a313ff6184dba23c207a3db5827a873fef/scriptmodules/supplementary/retropie-manager.sh

But yeah feel free, I am starting a new job and finishing moving so I don't know if I'll have the time.

meleu

@simbz23
Some questions to let me try to understand what can be the problem:

If you use the same command direct in the command line, does it work?

Where exactly is your autostart.sh (what directory)?

Is there some other command on your autostart.sh? Do they work?

simbz23

@meleu said in RetroPie-Manager web app (Recalbox-Manager fork/mod):

@simbz23
Some questions to let me try to understand what can be the problem:

If you use the same command direct in the command line, does it work?

Where exactly is your autostart.sh (what directory)?

Is there some other command on your autostart.sh? Do they work?

By direct in the command line, I'm assuming you mean put my original command in a terminal prompt? Here is what I did at a terminal prompt:

/home/pi/RetroPie-Manager/rpmanager.sh --start --user pi 2>&1 &

And I got this response:

Error: only privileged users (ex.: root) can use --user option.

My autostart.sh is in /opt/retropie/configs/all, as per the instructions
No other commands are in there. As my original post shows, and per the instructions, the RetroPie Manager command should come before the emulationstation #auto command. They both don't have be on the same lines I'm assuming?

meleu

@simbz23 said in RetroPie-Manager web app (Recalbox-Manager fork/mod):

(...) And I got this response:
Error: only privileged users (ex.: root) can use --user option.

Well, if you are logged as the user pi, there is no need to use the --user option. At least it lets you launch retropie-manager from the command line. ;-)

My autostart.sh is in /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation, as per the instructions

I think it sould be at /opt/retropie/configs/all/, and NOT inside the emulationstation subdirectory.

Also, try to put a sudo before that rpmanager command in the autostart.sh to see what happens...

simbz23

@meleu said in RetroPie-Manager web app (Recalbox-Manager fork/mod):

@simbz23 said in RetroPie-Manager web app (Recalbox-Manager fork/mod):

(...) And I got this response:
Error: only privileged users (ex.: root) can use --user option.

Well, if you are logged as the user pi, there is no need to use the --user option. At least it lets you launch retropie-manager from the command line. ;-)

My autostart.sh is in /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation, as per the instructions

I think it sould be at /opt/retropie/configs/all/, and NOT inside the emulationstation subdirectory.

Also, try to put a sudo before that rpmanager command in the autostart.sh to see what happens...

My bad, @meleu I accidentally added emulationstation in my previous post. The file was already in the right location though.

Good news is, your suggestion of adding sudo before the command worked! Thank you for your help, I really appreciate it!

Perhaps whoever is in charge of the install instructions on the RetroPie-Manager github should add "sudo" to the command?

herb_fargus

@simbz23 adding sudo to the script is bad practise. The sudo issue should be addressed in the code or file permissions

simbz23

@herb_fargus said in RetroPie-Manager web app (Recalbox-Manager fork/mod):

@simbz23 adding sudo to the script is bad practise. The sudo issue should be addressed in the code or file permissions

Agreed. My skills with unix is spotty, do you suggest to "chown" the file, or the folder it's in?

herb_fargus

@simbz23 yeah you can chown the folder it's installed in. I automated it through my module script (https://github.com/HerbFargus/RetroPie-Setup/blob/742d55a313ff6184dba23c207a3db5827a873fef/scriptmodules/supplementary/retropie-manager.sh#L50), I used the same method xboxdrv uses for starting on boot with rc.local rather than through the autostart function. Multiple ways to do it.

meleu

I'll try to adapt rpmanager to deal with it and adapt the module that herb made to use rpmanager.

meleu

I'm not sure what user id runs the autostart.sh.
@simbz23 can you please put the following line in your autostart.sh?

id > /tmp/autostart-id.log

And then paste here the content of the /tmp/autostart-id.log?

simbz23

@meleu said in RetroPie-Manager web app (Recalbox-Manager fork/mod):

id > /tmp/autostart-id.log

@meleu you got it, more than happy to help. Here is the output of autostart-id.log:

uid=1000(pi) gid=1000(pi) groups=1000(pi),4(adm),20(dialout),24(cdrom),27(sudo),29(audio),44(video),46(plugdev),60(games),100(users),101(input),108(netdev),997(gpio),998(i2c),999(spi)

meleu

@simbz23
Oh! It's the pi user! :D
No need to use sudo nor --user. Change your line to this:

/home/pi/RetroPie-Manager/rpmanager.sh --start 2>&1 &

And you can delete the id line.

Updating the README. Thanks for the feedback!