Kodi Autostart from emulationstation

[pattaboy]

Is it possible to autostart kodi or any other game that has an .sh extension from emulationstation?
This way I can always start kodi and exit kodi to play a game on my retropie console.

Who can help me out?

[pattaboy]

nobody who can help me out?

[BuZz]

edit /etc/profile.d/10-emulationstation.sh and put kodi-standalone before ES starts, so when you exit it, it will load Emulation Station.

[BuZz]

Replace the contents with

# launch kodi then emulationstation (if we are on the correct tty)
if [ "`tty`" = "/dev/tty1" ]; then
    kodi-standalone
    emulationstation
fi

[geneworld]

Interesting, I thought about doing this too but I don't have 10-emulationstation.sh. is that new to 3.7? I have 3.6 built from source.

[herb_fargus]

@geneworld if you've installed emulationstation and enabled autostart from the setup script it will be there.

[geneworld]

OH okay, Yeah I didn't select it to be auto-started. Thanks!

[Meldrak]

Hi, I use the script on Ubuntu 16.04 to setup retropie and option to set autostart of kodi is not visible
emulationsation is autostarting well but don't have the sh file in /etc/profile.d/

How can I do? Thanks

[pattaboy]

@Meldrak have you checked out the option in the retropie setup? there is now an option in the retropie setup that first boot kodi and when exiting it starts up emulationstation.