Tell another device what game is playing

[nohitter151]

I'm wondering what options exist, if any, to tell another device on my home network what game is being played on my retropie. I see that emulationstation supports scripting, and I assume that I could go about doing what I want that way, but I'm wondering whether someone has already done the leg work to accomplish this.

For my particular use case I would like to publish info on what is currently happening on my Retropie (eg. game is playing, screensaver running, etc.) to home assistant which is running on a server in my home network. I would also like to be able to pull the artwork from the currently playing game to display in Home Assistant.

I appreciate any insights you have to help me accomplish this.

[BuZz]

@nohitter151 See https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Runcommand/#runcommand-scripts

Could add a script which sends some data elsewhere on launch.

Also what is being run is logged in /dev/shm/runcommand.info on launch. In the format

SYSTEM
EMULATOR
ROM
COMMAND

[Lolonois]

@nohitter151 There is also a different way. ES has script callouts for some events: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/EmulationStation/#scripting

Put your scripts in your favorite language in the respective folder. Make them executable (chmod a+x <script>) and you should be ready to go. With the values of %rom_path% %rom_name% (first and second parameter inputted to your script you can locate the respective entry in the gamelist.xml which leads you to the artwork.

PS: Welcome to this forum :)