"Kiosk mode" very slow to load!

Ramses

@AlexMurphy said in "Kiosk mode" very slow to load!:

@Ramses It certainly seems like a good start. There are other ways to hide elements of ES instead of using Kiosk Mode. A few xml file edits and you can hide quite a bit and limit tinkering from the uninvited.

Ho! that very interesting! can you tell me witch file i have to edit to hide emunation menu item? If its possible to hide just by editing a file i prefer do that, that way i will save a lot of time because i will not have to troobleshoot my low booting speed with kiost mode!

AlexMurphy

@Ramses Yip. In es_systems.cfg you comment out the Retropie menu. Do you have an es_system.cfg file in /home/pi/.emulationstation? Find that and I will show you how to do it.

Ramses

@AlexMurphy said in "Kiosk mode" very slow to load!:

@Ramses Yip. In es_systems.cfg you comment out the Retropie menu. Do you have an es_system.cfg file in /home/pi/.emulationstation? Find that and I will show you how to do it.

Ok i have edit this file and i see a list of game platform, so for what i understand i can hide for exemple NES or GAMEBOY by removing the section, but in that file do not see how to hide item in menu (like hide the "scrap option" and other)?

pjft

@Ramses if you just want to remove specific platforms from the list you can just rename the platform folders, out move then inside an unused folder.

Still, @Zigurana (sorry for mentioning you out of the blue) might have some thoughts or suggestions as to why this may be happening.

A question: does it also behave like this in vanilla EmulationStation? How large is your library?

Best.

Ramses

and the es_system that i found was not in the directory you told me, it was in: /home/pi/RetroPie i do not found the file es_system in the directory that you told me

AlexMurphy

@Ramses Change this

  <system>
    <name>retropie</name>
    <fullname>RetroPie</fullname>
    <path>/home/pi/RetroPie/retropiemenu</path>
    <extension>.rp .sh</extension>
    <command>sudo /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_packages.sh retropiemenu launch %ROM% &lt;/dev/tty &gt;/dev/tty</command>
    <platform/>
    <theme>retropie</theme>
  </system>

TO THIS

<!--  <system>
    <name>retropie</name>
    <fullname>RetroPie</fullname>
    <path>/home/pi/RetroPie/retropiemenu</path>
    <extension>.rp .sh</extension>
    <command>sudo /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_packages.sh retropiemenu launch %ROM% &lt;/dev/tty &gt;/dev/tty</command>
    <platform/>
    <theme>retropie</theme>
  </system>  -->

And then Save, of course.

Ramses

@pjft said in "Kiosk mode" very slow to load!:

@Ramses if you just want to remove specific platforms from the list you can just rename the platform folders, out move then inside an unused folder.

Still, @Zigurana (sorry for mentioning you out of the blue) might have some thoughts or suggestions as to why this may be happening.

A question: does it also behave like this in vanilla EmulationStation? How large is your library?

Best.

How lage is my library? my 32gigs card is full of game...

AlexMurphy

@Ramses I told you to check there as that is where a custom file would be stored. If you do not have a custom file the system will look to /etc/emulationstation for the default. A custom es_systems.cfg file would be created if for eg you wanted to change the order of the systems as they appear in the ES carousel menu.

Ramses

@AlexMurphy said in "Kiosk mode" very slow to load!:

@Ramses Change this

  <system>
    <name>retropie</name>
    <fullname>RetroPie</fullname>
    <path>/home/pi/RetroPie/retropiemenu</path>
    <extension>.rp .sh</extension>
    <command>sudo /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_packages.sh retropiemenu launch %ROM% &lt;/dev/tty &gt;/dev/tty</command>
    <platform/>
    <theme>retropie</theme>
  </system>

TO THIS

<!--  <system>
    <name>retropie</name>
    <fullname>RetroPie</fullname>
    <path>/home/pi/RetroPie/retropiemenu</path>
    <extension>.rp .sh</extension>
    <command>sudo /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_packages.sh retropiemenu launch %ROM% &lt;/dev/tty &gt;/dev/tty</command>
    <platform/>
    <theme>retropie</theme>
  </system>  -->

And then Save, of course.

This modification just hide the retropie from the scroling menu.. but what i want is to hide some menu that peoples acces by pressing START button , you know the menu to scrap game and other?

AlexMurphy

@Ramses Yes. Do you only use controllers or do you also have a keyboard attached?

Ramses

@AlexMurphy

I have a keyboard too,

AlexMurphy

@Ramses Do you want to still be able to access these menus via the keyboard and just shut off their use via game controllers? Or do you want ALL access removed?

Ramses

@AlexMurphy said in "Kiosk mode" very slow to load!:

@Ramses Do you want to still be able to access these menus via the keyboard and just shut off their use via game controllers? Or do you want ALL access removed?

What i want is to hide some part of the menu. for exemple i want to be able to REBOOT SYSTEM, RESTART EMULATION STATION, and maybe CHANGE SOUND.. and want to hide item like : SCRAPER, UI SETTING, etc..

so if there is a file that contain menu, i can edit it and hide what i dosent want..

pjft

@Ramses I don't think there's one such file, but I might be mistaken. I think you're really looking for kiosk mode.

I am, however, surprised at the long load times. What does your EmulationStation of file contain after it loads?

Thanks.

AlexMurphy

@Ramses With those grey on white ES menus it is unfortunately ALL or NOTHING. They are hardcoded into Emulation Station's own code. This is not accessible unfortunately. To change this you would need to fork, rewrite and recompile the code.

Ramses

@pjft said in "Kiosk mode" very slow to load!:

@Ramses I don't think there's one such file, but I might be mistaken. I think you're really looking for kiosk mode.

I am, however, surprised at the long load times. What does your EmulationStation of file contain after it loads?

Thanks.

I dont understand your question: "What does your EmulationStation of file contain after it loads?" can you please tell me exactly with file you talk about??

Bu the way i have removed kiosk mode and now it took 50 sec to load emulation station (This speed is perfect for me, but kiosk mode is not working) and with kiosk the loading of the game was 9min30 sec..

Ramses

@AlexMurphy said in "Kiosk mode" very slow to load!:

@Ramses With those grey on white ES menus it is unfortunately ALL or NOTHING. They are hardcoded into Emulation Station's own code. This is not accessible unfortunately. To change this you would need to fork, rewrite and recompile the code.

Ho ok.. so look like i will have to re-install KIOSK and troobleshoot....

pjft

@Ramses the file should be in

~/. emulationstation/es_log.txt

(/home/pi is the same as ~ )

Try to get one after it loads without kiosk mode, and one with it. Maybe there's something useful there.

Ramses

@pjft

Ok i have take the file without kiosk

Now i install kiosk and take the file again after reboot

AlexMurphy

@Ramses Please read this for other options. Read all the comments and recommendations and decide what is best for you. https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/8442/my-anti-kid-mode/3