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    • supernature2k
      supernature2k @netcat last edited by

      @netcat

      Read my post above...

      To be sure that it'll work with a momentary switch, juste edit the script file.

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      • netcat
        netcat @supernature2k last edited by

        @supernature2k Thank you so very much have made the recommended changes as per your suggestion.

        with this particular raspberry I am now having an issue where recalbox spontaneously goes in to a constant rebooting cycle, if I unplug it a while and plug it back in it boots up just fine, have not tested on second raspberry Pi yet, could this have anything to do with scripts ?

        one other matter I would like to inquire if you are interested in, I believe Through One of my arcade machines has a BETABRITE LED sign built in to the top of it... many years ago I worked with Mr. Carlos Santillon whom was one of the coders for DOS based Mame frontend called "ArcadeOS" and he built code in to ArcadeOS so it could send data through the serial port and display on the BETATEBRITE the name of the game being played, would this be possible directly form the GPIO of the raspberry Pi and if so, would you be interested In helping code it?

        thank you again for all your help

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        • supernature2k
          supernature2k @netcat last edited by

          @netcat

          Hi, the strange behavior may come from the script. Check if your button is sending false signals.

          For the brite thingy, it may be possible to retrieve the game name from configgen then python something to the GPIOs but I have no idea how nor time to look at it.

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          • netcat
            netcat @supernature2k last edited by

            @supernature2k Thank you so very much for all your help, rebooting was an issue with the power supply, everything else is working to perfection.

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            • netcat
              netcat @netcat last edited by

              @netcat Just spent the past 8 hours documenting this process step by step form beginning to end including hardware and software installation, based on my experience in the process and the very helpful guidance I have received from @supernature2k and others here which was absolutely critical in getting this to work.

              if anyone is interested I have published it off my website.

              http://www.780tech.com/recalbox/

              p.s. it has pretty photos so you cant go wrong.

              🙂

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              • supernature2k
                supernature2k @netcat last edited by

                @netcat

                This is a very good tuto you made!
                Only problem is I think you made a mistake on the GPIO diagram. Your Reset bouton ground goes to pin 4, should be pin 6.

                @Global-Moderators we should pin it somewhere

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                • Substring
                  Substring @netcat last edited by Substring

                  @netcat just read your tutorial, nice step-by-step guide. Though i like when people try to reach the web manager through http://recalbox/ or http://recalbox.local for mac/linux

                  for your BETATEBRITE thing, of course it's possible. You'd need to know a little python, and most of all, how to send data to your betatebrite

                  @supernature2k could have eventually been pinned if it was written as a forum post

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                  • ian57
                    ian57 Staff last edited by

                    great stuff, i will modify my pitendo with 2 new buttons

                    "UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity." Dennis Ritchie

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                    • netcat
                      netcat @supernature2k last edited by

                      @supernature2k Thank you, Correction made

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                      • netcat
                        netcat @Substring last edited by

                        @Substring Adding your preferred web page links to the article. Sadly last time I did any programming at all was a good 30 years ago... I will however offer to purchase (AND SHIP) A BetaBrite sign to the first participant willing to write the code in to Recalbox and Beta test it.

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                        • netcat
                          netcat @Substring last edited by

                          @Substring Can you please check out revised version of Diagram, I am prone to doing stupid mistakes this week, I believe it is all good now.

                          Thank you

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                          • supernature2k
                            supernature2k @netcat last edited by

                            @netcat

                            Yep, all good now.

                            Please make a new post in the correct section so we can pin it!

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                            • Substring
                              Substring @netcat last edited by

                              @netcat first i'd need some documentation or at least some code examples on how to send data to the betabrite, whether a specific driver has to be added to the os first or it works straight like usb.

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                              • netcat
                                netcat @Substring last edited by

                                @Substring although nowadays there are Betabrites that attach directly to the USB port, they are exceedingly difficult to come by, your classic Betabrite sign will attach to a serial (COM port), which I believe can be emulated through the GPIO ? Many years ago a spent considerable time catching data form serial ports and figuring out how to send messages to Betabrite signs, even wrote a couple programs in Qbasic as I recall to accomplish this task, once correct strings were determined on how to send messages I forwarded this info to a number of people in the arcade community (much better programmers than myself) whom implemented it in various ways.

                                I will dig out the information, but the first question is does the raspberry Pi have means to communicate through standard Serial interface (Not USB) ?

                                HERE is my original program from 2005 designed to generate Individual ASCII files for each mame game (which were all placed in an LCD Directory and called upon before running each game)

                                CLS
                                PRINT ""
                                PRINT "* BETABRITE/MAME LCD FILE GENERATOR *"
                                PRINT "
                                "
                                PRINT "* "
                                PRINT "
                                Version: 1.0 "
                                PRINT "
                                Author : Tony Jimenez "
                                PRINT "
                                E-mail : Tony@780tech.com "
                                PRINT "
                                *"
                                PRINT "*****************************************************************************"
                                PRINT
                                PRINT " Application MUST be run from INSIDE the MAME folder"
                                PRINT
                                PRINT " Would you like <D>ynamic sign or <S>tatic sign"

                                1 a$ = INKEY$
                                IF a$ = "" THEN GOTO 1
                                IF UCASE$(a$) = "S" THEN GOSUB 4000 ELSE GOSUB 5000

                                PRINT
                                PRINT " Making LCD Directory"
                                PRINT
                                PRINT " AN Extended Error 183 indicates the folder ALREADY exists"
                                PRINT
                                SHELL " MD LCD"
                                PRINT
                                PRINT ""
                                PRINT
                                PRINT " GENERATING GAMELIST.TXT"
                                PRINT
                                PRINT " A BAD COMMAND OR FILE NAME Error indicates you are NOT in MAME folder"
                                PRINT
                                SHELL "mame -listfull > gamelist.txt"
                                PRINT
                                PRINT "
                                "

                                item = 0

                                OPEN "GAMELIST.TXT" FOR INPUT AS #2: INPUT #2, text$

                                REM PRINT TEXT$

                                10
                                REM *****************
                                REM CYCLE BEGINS HERE
                                REM *****************

                                LINE INPUT #2, text$

                                name$ = ""

                                FOR a = 1 TO LEN(text$)
                                IF MID$(text$, a, 1) <> " " THEN name$ = name$ + MID$(text$, a, 1) ELSE GOTO 1000
                                NEXT

                                1000

                                desc$ = ""
                                a = a + 1
                                IF MID$(text$, a, 1) = " " THEN GOTO 1000
                                FOR b = (a + 1) TO (LEN(text$) - 1)
                                desc$ = desc$ + MID$(text$, b, 1)
                                NEXT
                                REM PRINT "Description : "; desc$

                                name$ = "lcd" + name$ + ".lcd"
                                REM PRINT name$
                                OPEN name$ FOR OUTPUT AS #3
                                desc$ = PF$ + desc$ + SF$
                                PRINT #3, desc$

                                CLOSE #3

                                item = item + 1
                                LOCATE 35, 3: PRINT "Processing Item #"; item

                                IF EOF(2) <> -1 THEN PRINT : GOTO 10

                                END

                                4000 REM STATIC SIGN
                                PF$ = CHR$(112)
                                PF$ = PF$ + CHR$(81)
                                PF$ = PF$ + CHR$(232)
                                PF$ = PF$ + CHR$(192)
                                PF$ = PF$ + CHR$(143)
                                PF$ = PF$ + CHR$(156)
                                PF$ = PF$ + CHR$(197)
                                PF$ = PF$ + CHR$(1)
                                PF$ = PF$ + CHR$(88)
                                PF$ = PF$ + CHR$(120)
                                PF$ = PF$ + CHR$(181)
                                PF$ = PF$ + CHR$(1)
                                PF$ = PF$ + CHR$(1)
                                PF$ = PF$ + CHR$(90)
                                PF$ = PF$ + CHR$(48)
                                PF$ = PF$ + CHR$(48)
                                PF$ = PF$ + CHR$(2)
                                PF$ = PF$ + CHR$(65)
                                PF$ = PF$ + CHR$(65)
                                PF$ = PF$ + CHR$(27)
                                PF$ = PF$ + CHR$(32)
                                PF$ = PF$ + CHR$(98)

                                SF$ = CHR$(4)
                                RETURN

                                5000 REM DYNAMIC SIGN
                                PF$ = CHR$(112)
                                PF$ = PF$ + CHR$(81)
                                PF$ = PF$ + CHR$(232)
                                PF$ = PF$ + CHR$(192)
                                PF$ = PF$ + CHR$(143)
                                PF$ = PF$ + CHR$(156)
                                PF$ = PF$ + CHR$(197)
                                PF$ = PF$ + CHR$(1)
                                PF$ = PF$ + CHR$(88)
                                PF$ = PF$ + CHR$(120)
                                PF$ = PF$ + CHR$(181)
                                PF$ = PF$ + CHR$(1)
                                PF$ = PF$ + CHR$(1)
                                PF$ = PF$ + CHR$(90)
                                PF$ = PF$ + CHR$(48)
                                PF$ = PF$ + CHR$(48)
                                PF$ = PF$ + CHR$(2)
                                PF$ = PF$ + CHR$(65)
                                PF$ = PF$ + CHR$(65)

                                SF$ = CHR$(4)
                                SF$ = SF$ + CHR$(114)
                                SF$ = SF$ + CHR$(14)
                                SF$ = SF$ + CHR$(64)
                                SF$ = SF$ + CHR$(27)
                                SF$ = SF$ + CHR$(8)
                                RETURN

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                                • netcat
                                  netcat @Substring last edited by

                                  @Substring This is the Diagram I put together back then on how to interface through the serial port

                                  http://www.780tech.com/betabrite.GIF

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                                  • Substring
                                    Substring @netcat last edited by

                                    @netcat there are some usb cables to emulate a good old serial com, so that would be the best start

                                    Googling "betabrite python" shows some people already did the job in python, so i guess it could be not that hard, if all planets align perfectly 😉

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                                    • netcat
                                      netcat @supernature2k last edited by

                                      @supernature2k HAte to continue sounding dumb but in this site I have no idea how to make a new post, I believe originally I replied to a previously made post ?

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                                      • netcat
                                        netcat @Substring last edited by

                                        @Substring quite a bit of articles talking about adding a standard serial port to your Pi

                                        Only concern is it looks like it yses some if not all of the same pins as the power/reset buttons and LED

                                        http://www.davidhunt.ie/add-a-9-pin-serial-port-to-your-raspberry-pi-in-10-minutes/

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                                        • Substring
                                          Substring @netcat last edited by

                                          @netcat and i still believe some "usb rs232" cable is the easiest way to go

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                                          • netcat
                                            netcat @Substring last edited by

                                            @Substring I am certainly ok with this option

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