mholgatem

General question about RomScraper
in the main list, it will just show the title of the game (not the REV), when you high-lite each game, in the description, it should show you the actual name of the file that it corresponds to. If you have certain versions that you prefer over othe…

Comment by mholgatem July 2016 permalink
General question about RomScraper
the rom scraper will build a database for your games, which will include descriptions, correct titles for games, and pictures. (You need to follow the instructions found here to get the pictures added)

Comment by mholgatem July 2016 permalink
Kodi installation on PiPlay?
you need to go to the web frontend (your pi's ip address)->database admin->menu items

Comment by mholgatem July 2016 permalink
PiPLAY Booting Issue
did it give you an error or anything?

Comment by mholgatem June 2016 permalink
PiPLAY GameBoy
Personally, I would use a pi zero. But I've seen them made with every model out there

Comment by mholgatem June 2016 permalink
PiPLAY Booting Issue
ah, yeah. That image was made before the pi3 came out, so it doesn't have the correct settings. You will have to install the jessie image, then install piplay from the the github repo using these instructions: https://github.com/ssilverm/piplay…

Comment by mholgatem June 2016 permalink
PiPLAY Booting Issue
Hmm... so only Jessie works? No other OS's? What raspberry pi are you running it on?

Comment by mholgatem June 2016 permalink
PiPLAY Booting Issue
This generally means that your raspberry pi is under powered from your power supply. Is this your first go at it or have you successfully booted with a different SD Image?

Comment by mholgatem June 2016 permalink
Raspberry Pi 3!
I still haven't gotten a 3 yet, but I've picked up where we left off and am working on getting the libretro emulators working with piplay.

Comment by mholgatem June 2016 permalink
Raspberry Pi 3!
@cjbriere - did you ever figure out how to get the Genesis emulator working on jessie lite? I'm trying to get it, but haven't had any luck

Comment by mholgatem June 2016 permalink
PiPlay still active?
I just tested the installer on a fresh install of Jessie lite. Since it was Jessie lite, I had to run sudo apt-get install python-pygame after installation, but piplay itself seems to be working. As soon as I get my controls setup, I'll start t…

Comment by mholgatem June 2016 permalink
My portable piplay build, inside an x-arcade.
Hey, that's a pretty cool setup!

Comment by mholgatem June 2016 permalink
I-PAC 2 and Arduino
I would imagine so, but I don't have an I-PAC on hand to test it. Can anyone else weigh in on this?

Comment by mholgatem June 2016 permalink
pIMAME with adafruit controls buttons, joystick?
did you run the controller config after setting up the retrogame utility?

Comment by mholgatem June 2016 permalink
Where can I see the ip address of my Pimame/PiPlay?
it should list it in the upper right hand corner of the main piplay menu. you can also type 'ifconfig' in the command line to find it.

Comment by mholgatem June 2016 permalink
PiPlay has stopped working on start up.
ok, try this: wget https://github.com/ssilverm/pimame-menu/blob/master/database/config.db?raw=true -O /home/pi/pimame/pimame-menu/database/config.db That will download the file and save it to the correct location

Comment by mholgatem April 2016 permalink
Menu configuration.
hey there, sorry it took me so long to get back on here. If you want to adjust buttons, you just need to press 'tab' (keyboard) or 'button 3' (gamepad), then scroll to the bottom for 'controller config'. The only one th…

Comment by mholgatem April 2016 permalink
GPioneer - A side project compatible with PiPlay
well that's pretty cool, I didn't know that you could power on with GPIO3 as well. To be honest, I'm not familiar enough with the changes in jessie to know if that is what is causing it. I'm in the middle of a big backyard projec…

Comment by mholgatem April 2016 permalink
GPioneer - A side project compatible with PiPlay
I haven't had time to try it out, but I think that this may be what we want to do for running gpioneer on jessie: http://www.diegoacuna.me/how-to-run-a-script-as-a-service-in-raspberry-pi-raspbian-jessie/

Comment by mholgatem April 2016 permalink
PiPlay has stopped working on start up.
It looks like it's probably a corrupt database. You can give this a try in command line:cd /home/pi/pimame/pimame-menu/database mv config.db config-backup.db sqlite3 config-backup.db ".dump" | sqlite3 config.db if that doesn't w…

Comment by mholgatem April 2016 permalink
New user having issues
go into Raspi-Config again, then the boot options, then set it to boot to command line. That should fix it.

Comment by mholgatem March 2016 permalink
GPioneer - A side project compatible with PiPlay
ok, great. I think that i'm running the older version. I'll update and see if that has any bearing on this.

Comment by mholgatem March 2016 permalink
GPioneer - A side project compatible with PiPlay
can you do me a favor? In the command line, type: python >>>import RPi.GPIO as GPIO >>>GPIO.VERSION let me know what it spits out

Comment by mholgatem March 2016 permalink
GPioneer - A side project compatible with PiPlay
hmm... ok. this is going to take a bit more diving into then. I'm not sure when I'll have time to get to it, but it's one of my top priorities.

Comment by mholgatem March 2016 permalink
GPioneer - A side project compatible with PiPlay
@float, @Caver01 wow, ok. I feel like an idiot for not testing it before posting it. I fixed it and tested it on a raspbian wheezy setup. it runs now. hopefully it will shutdown correctly on the jessie setup now.

Comment by mholgatem March 2016 permalink
Emulators list
The piplay frontend has an icon that you can click that should install mame for you. For legal reasons (because we ran the kickstarter a while ago), we weren't allowed to include it with the distribution.

Comment by mholgatem March 2016 permalink
GPioneer - A side project compatible with PiPlay
hey, I'm just glad that you have the patience to stick with it!

Comment by mholgatem March 2016 permalink
GPioneer - A side project compatible with PiPlay
bah, that was my fault. It should have been self.signal_handler not just signal_handler. I fixed it. so sorry.

Comment by mholgatem March 2016 permalink
GPioneer - A side project compatible with PiPlay
ok, I feared that may be the case. I am thinking that it is probably 1 of 2 different problems. 1) The app isn't being sent (or isn't receiving) the correct shutdown signal from the system. 2) The app does receive the signal, but gets st…

Comment by mholgatem March 2016 permalink
GPioneer - A side project compatible with PiPlay
are you able to ssh into the pi and use either top or htop to view the system processes as you are shutting down? what happens if you comment out the auto-run command for gpioneer (located in /etc/rc.local), then just run it manually?

Comment by mholgatem March 2016 permalink

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