[gnowai]

Hey guys,
I'm completely new to kodi so it don't know much.

Anyways i have a few emulators i use and I've been using rcb for them but I don't like the looks and want to move to emulation station what I don't know us how to have them run seemless with each other. Are there any tips or guides on how to get both running nice?
I'm also hoping to close kodi while running es then open it after I close es

Any help will be appreciated

Thank you.

[ved_blueman]

I spent 2 days doing it, so...
And i requested a new feature on emulationstation forum(http://emulationstation.org/forum/index.php?topic=300.0), so...
You need to use advanced launcher to run the emulationstation executable on XBMC/KODI...

Call a new entry on advanced launcher and set the executable(launcher)path to the emulationstation executable.
Don't forget to see this thread: http://emulationstation.org/forum/index.php?topic=300.0 to understand some more about it.

[gnowai]

Thank you for the quick reply I looked at advance launcher but when I saw not supported I thought it was out of date lol.

I'll check the links out once I'm home thank you.

[ChimChim]

Has anyone got this running?

I was able to get Advanced Launcher to launch it successfully, but... it doesn't detect my gamepads when launched from Kodi. I'm running KodiBuntu.

I tried editing this:

<bool name="BackgroundJoystickInput" value="true" />

By default it is set to false... but no joy with either setting. I am using the automatic controller detection config in Retroarch. It works fine if I launch EmulationStation from an Xbuntu session.

For some reason I haven't got Rom Collection or Advanced Launcher to play nice with Retroarch... but EmulationStation works beautifully when run from an Xbuntu session. I'd really like to get it integrated with Kodi...

[ChimChim]

I sort of figured it out. For some reason it won't pick up the gamepad when launched from Kodi in a Kodi session... BUT once I deleted the es_input.cfg file I was able to map the GUI controls to my wireless keyboard. Maybe I can map it to my IR remote as well, but it isn't picking it up now. Once the game is launched, it will pick up the Retroarch USB pads I set up with autoconfig.

But... It does seem my keyboard stops working in Kodi once I exit EmulationStation and only my IR remote works... Hmmmm

The keyboard works on reboot, so maybe I need to run EmulationStation from a script where I restart Kodi on exit or something? Any ideas?

I did try some versions of this script, but it launched behind the GUI and was unusable. The best results seems to be launching the executable directly.

Code:

#!/bin/bash
openbox &
$1
killall -9 openbox

[zeug]

Same problem here: Keyboard stops after quitting EmulationStation, which I open in Kodi with Advanced Launcher.

Did you solve this problem?

[ouija]

I'm aware that this thread is a couple years old, but thought I'd post my solution to launching Emulation Station with Kodi:

https://github.com/ouija/kodi-emulationstation-launcher

It's a fork of a plugin make by another, but with some added improvements and options, like keeping ES focused while running, or allowing KODI to quit before running ES, as well as disabling the 'exit' option in ES.

Also, for multiple controllers like keyboard and joystick, follow the steps outlined here: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewt...78&t=71858

Essentially you need to combine es_input.cfg for both joystick and keyboard mappings into one and voila.

Hope this helps anyone else with similar questions