I'll let you know when I get the new controller...and may try it with a PS4 controller for now just see if that works any better, then we can try the scraping stuff and figure that out.

Sadly EmulationStation has a lot of issues, one is after you exit a game from the emulator, there is a "chance" EmulationStation does not come back up but stays in background. If that is happening the script will restart EmulationStation and it will not recover on it's own.cleverest@gmail.com wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2019 4:33 pmIt's working great control wise with my PS4 Controller now, across the board...but I'm having a strange issue...when I close EmulationStation, after several moments it will RELAUNCH (taking awhile to get it each time too, which is annoying) - I am not opening it after I exit, it just loads by itself..
What the heck?
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bash -x emulationstation_start
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root@gamestation-turbo:/home/odroid# bash -x emulationstation_start
+ counter=0
+ sleep 2
+ emulationstation
lvl0: No systems found! Does at least one system have a game present? (check that extensions match!)
(Also, make sure you've updated your es_systems.cfg for XML!)
++ ps aux
++ grep emulationstation
++ grep -v grep
++ grep -v emulationstation_start
++ wc -l
+ '[' 1 -ge 1 ']'
+ fullscreen_window=0
++ wmctrl -l
++ awk '{print $1}'
+ for window in '`wmctrl -l | awk '\''{print $1}'\''`'
++ xprop -id 0x00e00003
++ grep _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN
++ wc -l
+ '[' 0 -ge 1 ']'
+ for window in '`wmctrl -l | awk '\''{print $1}'\''`'
++ xprop -id 0x00e00030
++ grep _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN
++ wc -l
+ '[' 0 -ge 1 ']'
+ for window in '`wmctrl -l | awk '\''{print $1}'\''`'
++ xprop -id 0x0100001b
++ grep _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN
++ wc -l
+ '[' 0 -ge 1 ']'
+ for window in '`wmctrl -l | awk '\''{print $1}'\''`'
++ xprop -id 0x02e00010
++ grep _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN
++ wc -l
+ '[' 0 -ge 1 ']'
+ for window in '`wmctrl -l | awk '\''{print $1}'\''`'
++ xprop -id 0x0320001b
++ grep _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN
++ wc -l
+ '[' 0 -ge 1 ']'
+ for window in '`wmctrl -l | awk '\''{print $1}'\''`'
++ xprop -id 0x03400005
++ grep _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN
++ wc -l
+ '[' 1 -ge 1 ']'
+ fullscreen_window=1
+ '[' 1 -eq 0 ']'
+ '[' 1 -eq 0 ']'
+ counter=0
+ sleep 3
++ ps aux
++ grep emulationstation
++ grep -v grep
++ wc -l
++ grep -v emulationstation_start
+ '[' 1 -ge 1 ']'
+ fullscreen_window=0
++ wmctrl -l
++ awk '{print $1}'
+ for window in '`wmctrl -l | awk '\''{print $1}'\''`'
++ xprop -id 0x00e00003
++ grep _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN
++ wc -l
+ '[' 0 -ge 1 ']'
+ for window in '`wmctrl -l | awk '\''{print $1}'\''`'
++ xprop -id 0x00e00030
++ grep _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN
++ wc -l
+ '[' 0 -ge 1 ']'
+ for window in '`wmctrl -l | awk '\''{print $1}'\''`'
++ xprop -id 0x0100001b
++ grep _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN
++ wc -l
+ '[' 0 -ge 1 ']'
+ for window in '`wmctrl -l | awk '\''{print $1}'\''`'
++ xprop -id 0x02e00010
++ grep _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN
++ wc -l
+ '[' 0 -ge 1 ']'
+ for window in '`wmctrl -l | awk '\''{print $1}'\''`'
++ xprop -id 0x0320001b
++ grep _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN
++ wc -l
+ '[' 0 -ge 1 ']'
+ for window in '`wmctrl -l | awk '\''{print $1}'\''`'
++ xprop -id 0x03400005
++ grep _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN
++ wc -l
+ '[' 1 -ge 1 ']'
+ fullscreen_window=1
+ '[' 1 -eq 0 ']'
+ '[' 1 -eq 0 ']'
+ counter=0
+ sleep 3
++ ps aux
++ grep emulationstation
++ grep -v grep
++ wc -l
++ grep -v emulationstation_start
+ '[' 0 -ge 1 ']'
It says you it couldn't find any files.cleverest@gmail.com wrote: ↑Sat May 04, 2019 5:29 amCode: Select all
lvl0: No systems found! Does at least one system have a game present? (check that extensions match!) (Also, make sure you've updated your es_systems.cfg for XML!)
sorry about using the wrong TAGS...meveric wrote: ↑Sat May 04, 2019 6:17 amplease use "code" instead of "c" tags next time.
"c" tags are only for in-line code, not for copying multi line code.
It says you it couldn't find any files.cleverest@gmail.com wrote: ↑Sat May 04, 2019 5:29 amCode: Select all
lvl0: No systems found! Does at least one system have a game present? (check that extensions match!) (Also, make sure you've updated your es_systems.cfg for XML!)
This has nothing to do with the script this happened when it started emulationstation (not the script).
This seems really messed up.
I'm using the EmulationStation Icon on desktop..which is I created from the menu (right-click created)meveric wrote: ↑Sat May 04, 2019 7:53 amhow do you start emulationstation?
from menu, clicking the icon, or running emulationstation in then terminal?
It's very odd, as the icon from the menu does start the same as the bash command.. bash -x only shows what commands are executed, but the script runs with bash in both cases.
Then it should be the same as the one started with bash -x. The icon from the menu starts the same file just without the -x parameter.cleverest@gmail.com wrote: ↑Sat May 04, 2019 8:17 amI'm using the EmulationStation Icon on desktop..which is I created from the menu (right-click created)
Try starting it from terminal withcleverest@gmail.com wrote: ↑Sat May 04, 2019 2:50 pmAm I missing something? I noticed none of my Dreamcast games launch. I cannot open Reicast from the menu either....I made sure Reicast has the bios files installed...dc_boot.bin and dc_flash.bin are in the /home/odroid/.reicast/data folder....
dc-xbmc <ROM-File>
check the output what could be wrong, or post it here so I can take a look.Ahh okay. Thanks. Managed to get it to show video and audio after installing older GFE. starting via emulationstation doesnt work, but if I do it via ssh manually it starts. But the image has artifacts and latency is well above 2 seconds at 1080p@60. Even unplayable at 720p. Drops tons of frames for some reason.meveric wrote: ↑Sat May 11, 2019 8:42 pmI haven't tried moonlight in a long time.
And since this image is using Kernel 3.10 by default it also only supports software decoding for moonlihgt, so I'm not sure how good it will be.
I should look into the latest version of moonlight, but sadly I have very little time at the moment.
Which is due to the hardware decoder used for RPi.
Ok! Thanks for the quick response! So there is no gamestation image with the hw acceleration? Is emulation,mainly snes and n64 annoyingly worse?meveric wrote: ↑Sun May 12, 2019 12:08 amWhich is due to the hardware decoder used for RPi.
The XU4 can also do hardware decoding of 1080p@60 FPS but it required Kernel 4.14 as well as a specific version of moonlight to do so.
But Kernel 4.14 is somewhat slower that 3.10 that's why I keep 3.10 the overall performance is better, which is good for emulation.
That depends on what you're referring by hardware acceleration.
Nope, emulation works fine, PSP, Dreamcast, N64, PS1, 3DO there are tons of systems that work perfectly fine.
When I have more time I will look if I can get the latest version of moonlight to work properly.
Thank you sir!meveric wrote: ↑Sun May 12, 2019 5:19 amWhen I have more time I will look if I can get the latest version of moonlight to work properly.
Although it will be limited to either 30 FPS or 720p or something like that, due to missing hardware video decoder for moonlight.
In the past we had very good versions of moonlight for the XU4 (even in software decoding) but they changed GFE so many times it's really bad at the moment.
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usermod -u <NEWUID> <LOGIN>
groupmod -g <NEWGID> <GROUP>
find / -user <OLDUID> -exec chown -h <NEWUID> {} \;
find / -group <OLDGID> -exec chgrp -h <NEWGID> {} \;
usermod -g <NEWGID> <LOGIN>
the Setup ODROIG GameStation Turbo tool on the desktop has an option to do so, although I'm not 100% sure if it works correctly.SoraWhiteDragon wrote: ↑Sun Jun 30, 2019 4:00 am1. Is it possible to change username without any problems in the QGST image? maybe you can give me an example![]()
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usermod -u <NEWUID> <LOGIN> groupmod -g <NEWGID> <GROUP> find / -user <OLDUID> -exec chown -h <NEWUID> {} \; find / -group <OLDGID> -exec chgrp -h <NEWGID> {} \; usermod -g <NEWGID> <LOGIN>
Nope that's fine you can do this without issues.SoraWhiteDragon wrote: ↑Sun Jun 30, 2019 4:00 am2. Is it possible to change the hostname without any problems just by edititng "/etc/hostname" and "/etc/hosts"??
excatly. Every emulator you run on Kernel 4.14 is about 15% slower than what it was on Kernel 3.10 which can be hard for some emulators such as N64, PCFX, 3DO, NDS. They work fine under 3.10 but might be too slow on 4.14.SoraWhiteDragon wrote: ↑Sun Jun 30, 2019 4:00 am3. I didnt undertsand what you mean with performance hit with Kernel 4.14 LTS. Is it 15% worse performance?
Mostly only the performance hit, except from that Kernel 4.14 works fine.
There is Kodi 17.x available with the package name "kodi-next-odroid" but I haven't ported the PVR and other plugins for that. I can try doing so but it's been a while.SoraWhiteDragon wrote: ↑Sun Jun 30, 2019 4:00 am4. Is kodi 17.x stable? On your debian image there was iptv missing, if i remember correctly. With stable i mean, that you dont have missing features from 16.1 and you have no crashes^^
apt-get update
which will show some errors, then do a apt-get install setup-ogst-odroid
.I researched this topic a little, and on this image you can do the following:chilvence wrote: ↑Wed Dec 11, 2019 7:41 amI just installed this image on a console for a friend and I really like it so far, but I would really like the power button to be more 'assertive' shutting the system down. I don't want it to ask if I am really sure, because there won't be any keyboard or mouse attached, I really need it to instantly terminate all processes and shutdown the system immediately, or it probably won't ever get used and I'll be expecting a corrupt sd card and hard drive somewhere down the line, the system will be in use by someone who self admits having less than zero technical knowledge, so I know what will happen...
Can someone help me by explaining what it the button is actually doing? Does it run a shell script, if so where it located, or does it do something different? I can probably figure out how to do this, but I just have no idea where to look. I know this is basic, but I would really appreciate a nudge in the right direction.
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gsettings set org.mate.power-manager button-power shutdown
Normally apt-get runs fine, but Debian Jessie is in it's LTS support cycle by now and the original image still has the settings for the original Debian Jessie sources.chrisdash83 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 14, 2019 11:33 pmIssue 1:
This isn't an issue but just noting that aptitude seems to be a more stable way to install and update things. Somehow the apt-get method messed up my image the first time and I had to re-flash.
Yes, that's a problem with the default theme on Debian Jessie, installing another theme normally solves this issue though.chrisdash83 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 14, 2019 11:33 pmIssue 2:
I installed all of the dependencies to use kodi-next-odroid including the cryptography pieces. (this was after doing a full update and upgrade) I also fully removed Kodi and the OGST Setup packages and then re-installed them. However, once Kodi is updated all of the icons are black and many other functions don't seem to work.
Another flaw of newer Kodi versions.. In the past Kodi simply used SDL to power controllers, they were universally support, or at least XBox360 controller were, by now you need extra plugins to power controllers and might have to setup your own XML file to configure controller.
I can't say anything about this... I haven't started with a fresh image for quite some time.. It's possible that many of the addons now only support Kodi 18 and higher.chrisdash83 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 14, 2019 11:33 pmwhen I go to download skins they are missing dependencies
could be, as it should be the main source of images... also I don't know what addon you're using, but the ROM Collection Browser might not be in it's latest version in the Kodi repository and the "old" version does no longer work at all.chrisdash83 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 14, 2019 11:33 pmand some of the scraper functions also don't work. Although this could be because thegamesdb is currently offline.
Keyring is a strange thing and many things come together here.chrisdash83 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 14, 2019 11:33 pmIssue 3:
I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get the keyring password request to stop coming up when I have a wifi dongle connected. This isn't generally an issue but, it is annoying if I have the dongle connected and then the system goes into Kodi/Emulationstation. I then need to connect a keyboard and mouse to sign in. Even then, the wifi doesn't auto-connect for some reason, which is also weird.
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