PiPlay startup options configuration ~/.profile

markfrommanks

Hi - sorry I'm completely new to Linux - but trying to learn.

I've got a Pi 2 with Raspian and Openelec installed via NOOBS.

On my Raspian partition I have installed PiPlay - but I do not want it to start automatically (although I must of set this following the Github instructions) - as I am going to be using other programs such as Moonlight.

Any help would be appreciated... I have worked out the script below seems to control my startup options (as I had already setup TightVNC - and PiPlay seems to have added itself to that script.

1) What bits do I remove to go back to loading directly to Raspian command prompt?

2) Also once I have resolved this how do I easily launch PiPlay i.e. type PiPlay to launch it?

PROFILE:

# if running bash
if [ -n "$BASH_VERSION" ]; then
    # include .bashrc if it exists
    if [ -f "$HOME/.bashrc" ]; then
        . "$HOME/.bashrc"
    fi
fi

# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then
    PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
fi
if [ "$DISPLAY" == "" ] && [ "$SSH_CLIENT" == "" ] && [ "$SSH_TTY" == "" ]; then
sudo xboxdrv --silent --config /home/pi/pimame/config/xboxdrv_mapping.cfg --dbus
cd /home/pi/pimame/pimame-menu/
python launchmenu.py
fi

Thanks in advance for any help

markfrommanks

OK - I see I've got this completely wrong - tightVNC is starting via it's own script - which is fine - I always want it to run. It seems the above script is purely for PiPlay.

How do I stop it running?

mholgatem

ah, ok. so this is an easy one. Just put a # in front of these two lines so that they look like this:

#cd /home/pi/pimame/pimame-menu/
#python launchmenu.py

In order to add a custom command that will quickly run piplay, do this:

sudo nano /usr/bin/piplay

add this to the newly created file:

#!/bin/bash
cd /home/pi/pimame/pimame-menu/
python launchmenu.py

Ctrl+O to save
Ctrl+X to quit

sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/piplay

You may need to restart for this to take effect (I'm not near my pi right now, so I can't test). But you can now run piplay by simply typing piplay in the command line

markfrommanks

Thanks for the reply - that seems to have worked :)!

Also, this line...

sudo xboxdrv --silent --config /home/pi/pimame/config/xboxdrv_mapping.cfg --dbus

seems to configure my wired Xbox controller - but it doesn't allow me to use the D-PAD for games - in fact it's not even recognised in the controller configurator (TAB).

How do I get the D-PAD to be recognised?

Thanks again and all the best.

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