YARMan Web (BETA)
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@herb_fargus rss would be fine, but havent seen it?
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@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
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@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?
:-)
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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.
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@J.Beau http://retropie/ or http://ip_of_your_device/
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@daeks Tried it, but didn't work (in Safari). Am I missing something?
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@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 changeexport 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
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I would love these features in a web based management:
- File system manager
- Configuration editor
Do you have these in plan?
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@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/
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Omg - it would be awesone to have a "create support logs" option which also includes tge required details from the sticky.
Great work!
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@daeks said in RetroPie WebGUI + Metadata Editor (BETA):
@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 changeexport 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.That worked, kinda. It shows me the Apache2 Debian Default Page. We're getting closer :)
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Wow, this looks awesome! I do have the question, though, which is whether having Apache running in the background takes a meaningful toll on the Pi's performance and memory or not.
But I'm keeping an eye on this. Using Sublime so far:p
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@J.Beau great :) how does the content of
/var/www/html/
look like? maybe you should rerun the script after update. The content from the repro should be locatated at/var/www/html/
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@pjft said in RetroPie WebGUI + Metadata Editor (BETA):
Wow, this looks awesome! I do have the question, though, which is whether having Apache running in the background takes a meaningful toll on the Pi's performance and memory or not.
@BuZz already suggested to switch to the php integrated webserver, but I am no bash guru :). Starting the process in the background, pushing output somewhere, etc...
as far as I figured out it could be started with
php -S "$(hostname -I):8001" -t "/var/www/html" > /dev/null 2>&1 &
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@daeks said in RetroPie WebGUI + Metadata Editor (BETA):
@J.Beau great :) how does the content of
/var/www/html/
look like? maybe you should rerun the script after update. The content from the repro should be locatated at/var/www/html/
(assuming you are using a PI3)After some tinkering, I removed everything and followed the instructions again. It's working great in Safari now :) Thanks!
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@BuZz said in RetroPie WebGUI + Metadata Editor (BETA):
How about just using something like the built in php webserver? - primarily for development and shouldn't be used for any public site - but it should be enough for this, and you can avoid messing around with installing a full webserver etc. eg
What do you think on that approach? https://github.com/daeks/RetroPie-WebGui/blob/master/scriptmodules/supplementary/webgui_default.sh
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@daeks the install function seems to be copying from md_inst to md_build (the wrong direction ?).
I would checkout directly to "$md_inst" - in fact you can just have a single install_bin_webgui function which does the git clone - keeps it simple.
it will need a remove function that removes it from /etc/rc.local - there are some bash things that I would change too, but looks much better and simpler without the apache stuff.
Cheers.
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@BuZz Have changed it again. Hopefully everything is now fine :)
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@daeks almost :) - the configure and remove need a few changes - if you submit it as a PR once you are ready I will advise - easier then as I can reference code lines.
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Just as a note here: I have rebranded the whole app with a more individual untaken name to avoid naming conflicts with other "web guis".
The name will be "YARMan Web (Yet Another RetroPie Manager)"
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