YARMan Web (BETA)

daeks

@herb_fargus said in RetroPie WebGUI + Metadata Editor (Work in Progress):

Also: is there a reason you need to set permisions/add to user group here?

apache2 runs with the user/group www-data by default. Therefore I have changed permission for pi to be able to read/write in /var/www/html but I am also fine with another approach. I am really no expert in retropie module scripting :)

what are your thoughts of modifying the conf to have the root folder be in /opt/retropie/supplementary/webgui and host it from there?

I am open for that as well, but I would need a bash expert to setup this. Currently I also need to add something to save the data directory on update as one point of my agenda is to implement sqllite for better performance later on.

also the image button doesnt work for me. is that something that is still in development?

Yes, Image button as well as save/delete is currently under development. Currently I am focusing on the framework itself and the correct parsing of the xml / displaying it in the gui. As soon as the metadata module is fully working, I would like to update the first post for beta testing.

Also I'm more familiar with the node.js implementations rather than apache so I'm not sure how many other people are already using apache in some form on their pi or system, so I think there may need to be some failsafe in case someone is already using apache but I would hope they already know that before installing another potentially conflicting apache service.

Good point, yes absolutly, but same answer as to the previous point. I would like to need some bash experts to handle that :)

@herb_fargus said in RetroPie WebGUI + Metadata Editor (Work in Progress):

As far as pulling releases look at other module examples. Just depends on if you want to pull from a specific commit or download and unzip or untar a binary if you upload one for each release

Currently it is just fetching from master. I can live with that as it is also done like that on other projects but it would be nice to pull only releases.

The other idea is to generate a diagnostic dash like this one:

Currently I have started with a mix of diagnostic dashboard + system overview + links to help articles, but i will see later on what others are thinking what should be displayed on the initial startpage. I am very open in the whole development.

herb_fargus

The permissions/configs/install locations are all very minor and fairly easily sorted with bash in the retropie module, so I'm not going to worry too much about those for now.

I presume with the SQLite that will be for the editor or are you talking emulationstation? I know there has been talk of using SQLite with ES but it's still very much under development with no deadline.

I like the implementation so far, it's looking good

daeks

@herb_fargus said in RetroPie WebGUI + Metadata Editor (Work in Progress):

The permissions/configs/install locations are all very minor and fairly easily sorted with bash in the retropie module, so I'm not going to worry too much about those for now.

For the time being I have changed it to:

function install_webgui() {
    if [ -d "/var/www/html/data" ]; then
      cp -r "/var/www/html/data/." "$md_build/data"
    fi
    rm -rf "/var/www/html/*"
    cp -r "$md_build/." "/var/www/html"
}

function configure_webgui() {
    chown -R $user:$user "/var/www"
    chmod -R 775 "/var/www/html"
    sed -i 's/export APACHE_RUN_USER=www-data/export APACHE_RUN_USER=$user/g' /etc/apache2/envvars
    sed -i 's/export APACHE_RUN_GROUP=www-data/export APACHE_RUN_GROUP=$user/g' /etc/apache2/envvars
    service apache2 restart
}

I presume with the SQLite that will be for the editor or are you talking emulationstation? I know there has been talk of using SQLite with ES but it's still very much under development with no deadline.

I am talking about the editor/webgui. I tested a bit with hugh gamelist.xml files and the reponse time is dropping a bit :). Therefore I am thinking on parsing/saving to internal SQLite db with some kind of "export to gamelist" functionallity. Anyhow, I would be ready for changing from xml to SQLite if it is shipped to ES in general.

I like the implementation so far, it's looking good

Thanks :) - xml writeback is also finished, just need to implement the delete function + image/video upload then it is ready for beta testing.

daeks

Updated first post to beta test the first module. Currenlty I am testing with Chrome and IE11.

BuZz

@daeks said in RetroPie WebGUI + Metadata Editor (BETA):

I am not very familiar with retropie module scripting. Can someone check if that is correct?

https://github.com/daeks/RetroPie-WebGui/blob/master/scriptmodules/supplementary/webgui.sh

Thanks for this.

Few comments - Apache seems a bit overkill, but if using that you should create a custom configuration and keep the files in $md_inst etc, rather than changing stuff in /var/www - this could easily break existing set-ups. Your remove function could also remove stuff someone had installed already.

How about just using something like the built in php webserver? - primarily for development and shouldn't be used for any public site - but it should be enough for this, and you can avoid messing around with installing a full webserver etc. eg

php -S localhost:8001

and people who wanted to use nginx or apache could easily add it to their existing config if they wanted.

daeks

first commit of some kind of a dashboard functionallity:

daeks

@BuZz said in RetroPie WebGUI + Metadata Editor (BETA):

How about just using something like the built in php webserver?

I am not very familiar with the integrated webserver. If it supports all the stuff like apache does, we can also implement that. Currently I am more focusing on the application itself instead of the setup in retropie. I will try to figure out how the integrated one could be used but would really appreciate any help on that.

daeks

@herb_fargus @BuZz is it possible to pull https://retropie.org.uk/news/ with some kind of newsfeed / xml?

herb_fargus

@daeks should be able to with RSS no?

Arcuza

Please tell how I (=a client side JavaScript) can query your application to get gamelist data over either json or xml.

daeks

@herb_fargus rss would be fine, but havent seen it?

daeks

@Arcuza said in RetroPie WebGUI + Metadata Editor (BETA):

Please tell how I (=a client side JavaScript) can query your application to get gamelist data over either json or xml.

There is currently no API available for that purpose, but we could add one. Basically you would need some custom php file including the config.php then you can trigger it with custom.php?emulator=snes&filename=Aladdin.sfc

BuZz

@daeks said in RetroPie WebGUI + Metadata Editor (BETA):

@herb_fargus @BuZz is it possible to pull https://retropie.org.uk/news/ with some kind of newsfeed / xml?

https://retropie.org.uk/feed/

:-)

J.Beau

I'd like to try this. How do I access this from my browser? I followed the instructions on https://github.com/daeks/RetroPie-WebGui.

daeks

@J.Beau http://retropie/ or http://ip_of_your_device/

J.Beau

@daeks Tried it, but didn't work (in Safari). Am I missing something?

daeks

@J.Beau said in RetroPie WebGUI + Metadata Editor (BETA):

@daeks Tried it, but didn't work (in Safari). Am I missing something?

I checked the bash script and it looks like that there was a small mistake inside the sed commands. Think you need to fix it manually with sudo nano /etc/apache2/envvars and change

export APACHE_RUN_USER=$user
export APACHE_RUN_USER_GROUP=$user

to your userid used (default: pi). After that restart apache with sudo service apache2 restart. I already fixed that on the github version of the script.

Arcuza

I would love these features in a web based management:

File system manager
Configuration editor

Do you have these in plan?

daeks

@Arcuza yes, I want to copy all the functions which are currently available on the retropie/recalbox manager.
Currently my planned feature list includes

System Monitoring Dashboard (mostly done already)
Browse and start/stop games from web frontend (design like the attract mode)
Rom Management (Uploading, etc.)
Rom Relations (find duplicates, find related games)
Bios Management (Uploading etc.)
Savegame Management
Scraping (currently thinking on gamesdb, screenscraper.fr and google)
Metadata Editor (done except automatic cleanup of gamelist/media objects)
(Support of no-intro DAT files)
Configuration Editor
Log Viewer (maybe also some kind of "fetch all support infos for retropie forum" automatically)
Raspberry / ES Management (Restart ES and reboot PI)
(ES Theme Support)
(Loading Image / Splashscreen Management)
Administration Panel for WebGUI (for example for adding new gamelist metadata fields manually or changing paths, etc.)
(Technical point: move from xml to SQLite for the webfrontend cause of performance)

Points in brackets are more or less some "internal" points which I have in mind but not sure if I can implement how I want to have them. Anyhow, as I am currently developing alone it might take some time for all points to implement :)

I organised all the open points on github: https://github.com/daeks/RetroPie-WebGui/projects/
Contributions are welcome :)

Jeck11

Omg - it would be awesone to have a "create support logs" option which also includes tge required details from the sticky.

Great work!