"Kiosk mode" very slow to load!

AlexMurphy

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

Ramses

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

Ramses

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

@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

Thanks for the link i have read it.. and i prefer use KIOST/KID mode.. so i'm actually re-installing it now.. maybe with the log i will found the problem that slow down everything

Ramses

Ok i have re-installed kiosk, reboot with kiosk and everything work (except is very slow!)

So i compared both es_log file: the only difference was the first line "date and time" But thats perfectly normal, and the LAST line.. when KIOST is installed last line say: "lvl0: Tried to use unset setting ShowHidden!"

I'm actually doing search on the web to find out more information about this error

AlexMurphy

@Ramses Doesn't seem major. Just something about what is hidden in the Kiosk Mode configs.

Ramses

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

@Ramses Doesn't seem major. Just something about what is hidden in the Kiosk Mode configs.

oh ok... so this log file do not help me at all....

Well... maybe i can try to remove all sub-folder and "gamelist" file rom every folder to see if the problem still there

AlexMurphy

@Ramses You said you were going to do that at the beginning!

Ramses

@AlexMurphy

lol i know! but i have not do that because i was looking for a better solution (like manualy hide some menu item or other) but look like its not possible.. so now its time to troobleshoot :)

AlexMurphy

@Ramses You should have done that 2 hours ago when you said you were going to do it! You should never listen to a word I say in future...

Ramses

Anyway, i have 3 SD card with the exact same image and a backup IMAGE of my working card, so its very easy for me to take one SD card and delete everything to do some test.. because i have backup on other SD card and an IMAGE of the SD card on my computer, so i do not loose anything by doing those kind of "test"

Ramses

Ok, guess what, now after deleting all my picture folder and all my gamelist.xml from every folder it took 1 min 30 to boot..

So:
50 second without KIOSK
9 Min 30 With KIOSK
And 1 min 30 With KIOSK but WITHOUT any gamelist.xml and picture folder...

1min 30 is still acceptable.. So i think the next step is to move all picture outside ROMS folder and edit every gamelist.xml to give new picture path... wow! a lot of work, and not sure if that will fix the issue or not!