2016-08-23, 15:56
Hi!
This might also belong to the retropie forum, however I made good experiences here, so I try it here again
On my Raspberry Pi 3 I have Raspian, KODI 16 (from pipplware) and RetroPie (manual installation) installed.
With some help from this forum I managed to write a script that launches RetroPie from KODI.
The script looks like this:
As you can see, this script quits KODI and starts emulationstation as user "retropie". When retropie quits, KODI is started again.
The process of starting emulationstation and restarting KODI afterwards works very well so far.
However, there is one big problem left:
I cannot start games from within emulationstation. Whenever I choose a ROM, I would see Raspbians login screen for a moment and afterwards the ROM selection screen again. The logs don't mention any of this.
When I just login as user retropie and start emulationstation, everything works well. So it really seems to be an issue with my start script. Can you help me to fix that?
Thank you!
This might also belong to the retropie forum, however I made good experiences here, so I try it here again
On my Raspberry Pi 3 I have Raspian, KODI 16 (from pipplware) and RetroPie (manual installation) installed.
With some help from this forum I managed to write a script that launches RetroPie from KODI.
The script looks like this:
Code:
# addon.py
import xbmc
import xbmcgui
System.Exec("/usr/local/bin/startscript.sh")
# ===========
# /usr/local/bin/startscript.sh
#!/bin/bash
# quit kodi
sudo /bin/systemctl stop kodi
# wait (if necessary)
# sleep 3
# start emulationstation
sudo -u retropie /usr/bin/emulationstation
# wait again (if necessary)
# sleep 3
# start kodi again
sudo /bin/systemctl start kodiAs you can see, this script quits KODI and starts emulationstation as user "retropie". When retropie quits, KODI is started again.
The process of starting emulationstation and restarting KODI afterwards works very well so far.
However, there is one big problem left:
I cannot start games from within emulationstation. Whenever I choose a ROM, I would see Raspbians login screen for a moment and afterwards the ROM selection screen again. The logs don't mention any of this.
When I just login as user retropie and start emulationstation, everything works well. So it really seems to be an issue with my start script. Can you help me to fix that?
Thank you!