Run sleep script on button press in ES?

[jduteau]

Is there a way to have EmulationStation detect a button press and then put the system in sleep mode? I have the system sleep option set and it eventually sleeps after 10 minutes, but there are some times when I know I'm done, so I wouldn't mind telling it to go to sleep right away.

[mitu]

Press Select (or the button that you mapped to Select) on your gamepad and it should go to sleep right away. You need to be in the system carousel for this to work.

[jduteau]

@mitu Thank you, I didn't realize that. One thing - although it is putting the display to sleep, it isn't calling my sleep script. I have that script turning my marquee off as well. Is there a way to have pressing select call a script?

[mitu]

@jduteau How is your sleep script called ? Did you use the scripting support in EmulationStation ?

[jduteau]

@mitu Yes. I followed the docs and have a sleep script and a wake script that work wonderfully with the systemSleepTime setting. But pushing the select button is obviously not the same as the system sleeping after x minutes since it's not calling that script.

[mitu]

Pressing select is equivalent to the screensaver-start event, sleep is triggered after the configured timeout.