Sx05RE v1.8.6 Emulationstation+Lakka+Kodi

niabi, you've forgotten to update the version number of ES to 1.8.4 as it still stays 1.8.2.

And in ES video preview can not be playing anymore for me since I've updated to 1.7. In 1.6.5 the video preview play well.

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Opps yeah I forgot to update the version number, but it doesn't affect anything really.

1.6.5 was a long time ago, videos don't play for you since 1.7? How are your videos encoded? All my romsets have videos and they play fine.

All my videos scraped with sselph scraper play fine and have sound aswell

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DarzLir I don't think that is the problem, you need to mount it on LE to be able to do it, if you are able to mount it on Kodi it means there is a way to do it by command line. The ROM search script does not care where the roms are stored as long as the path is /storage/roms

Just thinking out loud you could probably try this:

Mount your share on Kodi
login by SSH and search to where your share is mounted (/mnt or /var/media are a good start or by using "find" and searching for a file you know is there)

change the path of the symbolic link in autostart.sh using nano from:

ln -sf $PATHTOROMS /storage/roms

to

ln -sf /path/of/your/mount /storage/roms

save and restart your box

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I tried again, but there is no way.

I changed the directories if it was not in a correct way, the share is called roms and then a directory called roms, in Kodi, no problem

I put that new path NORMANDYROMS/roms/roms/... in autostart, in es_systems file... but not lucky

In /mnt or /var/media there is nothing to see, so...

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All my videos scraped with sselph scraper play fine and have sound aswell

me too

Quote from niabi

Opps yeah I forgot to update the version number, but it doesn't affect anything really.

1.6.5 was a long time ago, videos don't play for you since 1.7? How are your videos encoded? All my romsets have videos and they play fine.

I will investigate this issue tonight to see whether it is ES theme-related or video-encoding-related.

Quote from niabi

Just place the img.gz, but please make a backup of your SD before you update I am not 100% this will go without a problem. it shouldn't as not many things on LE have changed from 8.2 to 8.3 but you never know.

Hello niabi,

this seems to work BUT I ran into another problem, that the "flash" partition is to small for update. The installer says that there is no place, to end the update. If I look I see that Flash ist 100% full. Is there a chance to resize it OR can I only manual install the system and kernel file via copy?

Greetz,

J.

Hi Niabi

would it be possible to compile a version for the low ram boxes (1GB) ?

I still have some left and would like to use them.

Thx

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A new version has been uploaded to github.

http://github.com/shantigilbert/…ases/tag/v1.8.4

Quote from niabi

Opps yeah I forgot to update the version number, but it doesn't affect anything really.

1.6.5 was a long time ago, videos don't play for you since 1.7? How are your videos encoded? All my romsets have videos and they play fine.

My fault. I did not update the system correctly. Now it's OK, thanks a lot.

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I think I leave it, there's no way to find the server roms ...

Searching in google, I found the repository of "bite your idols" the addon Gamestarter, but I think it is only valid for rPi and when I started ES with the s905 it does not work. niabi if you want check it... GitHub - bite-your-idols/Gamestarter: Retrogaming kodi add-on repository for LibreELEC

The good thing that I saw is that it allowed to choose the route of the roms through the kodi file manager, but as I said, it is not functional for the amlogic and I couldn't test, but I saw the roms and I can see them through the file manager.

I tried the route that the "Gamestarted" uses in es_systems.cfg with SX05re, but doesn't work XD

Maybe with Pegasus frontend will be easier?

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i have managed to mount my roms on my nas drive following these instructions on the lakka forum (asked the same question on there couple of years back and it still work on this build)

Remote storage of roms - Lakka - Libretro Forums

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i have managed to mount my roms on my nas drive following these instructions on the lakka forum (asked the same question on there couple of years back and it still work on this build)

Remote storage of roms - Lakka - Libretro Forums

Buffffff I got it Finally!!!!

The truth is that I have renamed several folders to be clearer, so the unit where I have all the roms is called "Ngo" and the "roms" folder is that of the roms. So trying, trying and trying again, I used this in autostart.sh file that works:

#!/bin/sh
 (sleep 5;
  mount -t cifs -o username="Normandy Server",password=***,rw //192.168.1.10/Ngo/roms /storage/roms/;
 )&

The IP instead the name of the server, 192.168.1.10 - Ngo (Name of the Hard Disk) - roms (the roms). And in Libreelec I used the default roms folder. Now, File Manager in Kodi and in system info, appear a new mount:

And now when restarting the box, I have in /storage/roms/ everything that I have in my drive appears in D:\roms or \\NORMANDYSERVER\Ngo\roms

what is the problem now? Seems that ES doesn't recognize that in /storage/roms/ , there are roms

Danfozzy85 Do I need to do anything more? editing es_systems.cfg?

it wont find them on the initial boot, (sleep 5). once in Kodi reload emulation station after 10 secs or so.

have you put the blank sx05reroms file in the root of your rom directory?

Quote from niabi

I am not sure if this can be done

what version where you running before? 8.3?

Another option is to do a backup of Kodi and then restore it when you re install? you can also copy the whole /storage directory and restore it.

hi,

i was on your last think 1.8.2. I made a test yesterday. Cloned my sd card and wrote your img on another empty card. After that i take the whole files on "Flash" from the new sd card and copied all files (system, kernel, img)to the "Flash" on my old sd card. And it worked. The old sd card bootet normaly and in kodi it says 1.8.4. I am right that the UPDATES are only in files KERNEL and SYSTEM?!?! And these are the only NEW files? Cause if i updated the right way and put the update file in .updates, on the screen always comes the message that he is copying KERNEL AND SYSTEM.

Greetings,

J

Quote from niabi

On your screen it says nroms, are your roms in /storage/roms or /storage/nroms/roms ?

I edited to do in the correct path

Quote from Danfozzy85

it wont find them on the initial boot, (sleep 5). once in Kodi reload emulation station after 10 secs or so.

have you put the blank sx05reroms file in the root of your rom directory?

Hmmm I wait more than 10 secs but with the same result :\

Quote from DarzLir

Hmmm I wait more than 10 secs but with the same result :\

Is your mount script still ended with the & character?

(sleep 5;

mount -t cifs -o username="Normandy Server",password=***,rw //192.168.1.10/Ngo/roms /storage/roms/;

)&

[following scripts]

This will cause the mount to wait x amount of sleep, but the following scripts will still start directly afterwards, without waiting for the sleep command.

If you remove the & it might wait long enough for the mount to be present when emulationstation boots.

(a separate sleep insert would be even better as the removal of the & will cause the boot to hang for quite a while, if your network share is down)

literally this is the top of the autostart.sh