Access to debug RetroPie config files?

[Floob]

It seems that a lot of support requests are resolved by identifying issues within configuration files from a users setup.
In order to allow quicker resolution to these problems, could there be a menu option in retropie that would package up the files easily in order to share them?

Something along these lines?

sudo apt-get install zip
cd ~
zip -rq configs.zip /opt/retropie/configs/ -x /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/downloaded_images/\*

or someway the user can more easily provide access to their configs?

These type of services could be used to send the files to?
http://filebin.ca/ (Even has API: http://filebin.ca/tools.php)
http://www.tinyupload.com/

[BuZz]

Yeah, I've been thinking about something similar. It's just not very fun to code, but I'll sort out something.

[suprjami]

Oh dear, this is sounding a lot like work.

We use sosreport which is in-repo. It's a framework which can collect files, run commands, etc and bundles it all up as a compressed file in /tmp.

You could install the package as part of the RetroPie image and write a RetroPie-specific plugin to collect the files and command output you consider useful. Plugins are written in Python.

Have a setup script option and/or RetroPie ES menu option to run sosreport -o retropie and upload the file somewhere.

Might be a bit easier to leverage this existing tool than than writing an entire new framework to do it for you?

[meleu]

If it is implemented someday it would be gentle to alert the user about sensitive data (TBH I can only remember retroachievements account data, nothing more).