Retropie-Manager-Plus

About

This an enhanced RetroPie-Manager fork. Original RetroPie-Manager repository: https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Manager

Features

With Retropie-Manager you can

• Monitor the system health and disk space
• Edit the Emulation Station config file
• Edit the RetroArch config file
• Edit the autostart.sh script
• View the Emulation Station log file
• Manage your BIOS files
• Manage your ROMS

Limitations

• It doesn't support subdirectories at ROMs dir (as reported here)

Install

Dependencies on Raspberry Pi

sudo apt-get install virtualenv python-dev

Dependencies on Ubuntu-based Linux distribution

sudo apt-get install python-virtualenv python-dev

Installing RetroPie-Manager

cd
git clone https://github.com/NicholasBerryman/RetroPie-Manager-Plus.git
cd RetroPie-Manager-Plus
make install

Usage

You must be at the RetroPie-Manager's directory to use the rpmanager.sh like in the examples below.

Start

./rpmanager.sh --start

Open your browser and go to http://your_retropie_ip:8000/

Stop

./rpmanager.sh --stop

More options

[prompt]$ ./rpmanager.sh --help
Usage: rpmanager.sh OPTIONS

The OPTIONS are:

-h|--help           print this message and exit

--start             start the RetroPie-Manager

--stop              stop the RetroPie-Manager

--isrunning         show if RetroPie-Manager is running and the
                    listening port and exit

--log               save the log messages (optional, default: not save log
                    messages, only works with --start)

-u|--user USER      start RetroPie-Manager as USER (only available for
                    privileged users, only works with --start, USER must 
                    be a RetroPie user)

The --start and --stop options are, obviously, mutually exclusive. If the
user uses both, only the first works.

Autostart

To make Retropie-Manager to start with your RetroPie machine simply add it as a reboot Cronjob. First, run crontab -e Then, add the following line to the end of the file:

@reboot /opt/retropie/supplementary/retropie-manager-plus/rpmanager.sh --start

Update

sudo kill -9 $(pgrep -f RetroPie-Manager)
cd 
cd Retropie-Manager
make clean
git reset --hard HEAD
git pull
make install

Reinstall

sudo kill -9 $(pgrep -f RetroPie-Manager)
cd 
rm -rf Retropie-Manager
git clone https://github.com/botolo78/RetroPie-Manager.git
cd RetroPie-Manager
make install

Additions to the base RetroPie-Manager:

• Adds .pbp as a valid PSX ROM extension (DONE)
• Fixes PSX BIOS hashes (DONE)
• Increases max uploadable rom size to 10GB from 256MB (DONE)
• Adds real-time updating to Monitoring page (MOSTLY DONE)
  • Updates all values on the monitoring screen every 3 seconds (DONE)
  • Updates file system table if devices are added/removed e.g. a USB (TODO)
  • Requires Javascript
• Adds custom-data monitoring (TODO)
• Allows rom sub-directories (TODO)
• Re-introduces save management (TODO)
• Migrate to Python 3 (TODO)