zmeta Solution worked flawlessly for me. interestingly enough. once this process was completed and while copying/extracting Recallbox files to SD card the process took like 10 times longer than before to copy but.... Raspberry no longer complained about not being able to resize partition
Found a copy of my original artice for BetaBrite signs here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20141105153358/http://www.780tech.com/betabrite/index.htm
@Substring if you are interested in taking on this poroject drop me an email at 780tech@gmail.com and I can arrange to ship you a BetaBrite sign and we can choose out and purchase the usb to serial adapter of your choice
Tony
@Substring I am certainly ok with this option
@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/
@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 ?
@Substring This is the Diagram I put together back then on how to interface through the serial port
@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
@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
@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.
@supernature2k Thank you, Correction made
@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.
@supernature2k Thank you so very much for all your help, rebooting was an issue with the power supply, everything else is working to perfection.
@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
@supernature2k in my country "Costa Rica" tgey have a saying
"Al mejor mono se le cae el zapote"
= even tge best monkey drops his zapote sometimes
(Zapote... = some kind of fruit minkeys semingly like)
Thank you again for your patience and suppirt
One more onquiry with 567 script does power button have to ve on/off or can i use tge pushbutton i have in place?
@netcat Upon reading your last reply, and learning that the script was indeed running, and remembering
"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."
Let me start by publicly apologizing to you and everyone in the community for waiting their valuable time, I am officially an imbecile and upon disassembly and inspection realized I was reading the GPIO UPSIDE DOWN .. not sure how I could be so stupid to do ir the right way when testing the LED on Pin 1 (3 Volts) and then assembling it in to my box backwards (and then do it again the second time around)
but the truth must be told..
I WAS THE GREMLIN, all failures were do to my inability to recognize PIN 1 when assembling the raspberry in to the box.
it is working now perfectly.
I very humbly request you please forgive me for my ineptitude.
@supernature2k tried it.. it does nothing.
did you look at my diagram ?
Http://www.780tech.com/rbox.jpg
that is EXACTLY how I have it wired. also if I plug the LED in to pin 1 (3v) and any ground.. than the led DOES turn on...
I am completely baffled
@supernature2k both of my buttons are momentary and I did read the part where it states if you use the
567 script it MUST be permanent on/off switch, even know I read a post where somebody claimed it would work with a momentary pushbutton, I therefore switched to testing only with the 56 script to see if at least I could make it turn on and off
either way, neither script appears to be engaging,
if necessary I can switch the push button for an on/off button, but until I can verify any script is working at all I have halted hardware modifications, also .. as a means of testing the 567 script it would suffice to simply hold the push button in to simulate the ON position of the switch and release it to turn off (Which doesn't work either)
login as: root
root@192.168.1.9's password:
total 68
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Jan 1 1970 .
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Jan 1 1970 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 1 1970 .cache
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Dec 11 19:18 .config
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jan 1 1970 .emulationstation
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 1 1970 .hatari
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Dec 11 21:44 .kodi
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 1 1970 bluetooth
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Jan 1 1970 configs
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 1 1970 logs
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7751 Jan 1 1970 recalbox.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7752 Jan 1 1970 recalbox.old.conf
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 1 1970 ssh
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 1 1970 udev
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6 Jan 1 1970 update.done
PID USER COMMAND
1 root init [3]
2 root [kthreadd]
3 root [ksoftirqd/0]
5 root [kworker/0:0H]
7 root [rcu_sched]
8 root [rcu_bh]
9 root [migration/0]
10 root [migration/1]
11 root [ksoftirqd/1]
13 root [kworker/1:0H]
14 root [migration/2]
15 root [ksoftirqd/2]
17 root [kworker/2:0H]
18 root [migration/3]
19 root [ksoftirqd/3]
21 root [kworker/3:0H]
22 root [khelper]
23 root [kdevtmpfs]
24 root [netns]
25 root [perf]
26 root [khungtaskd]
27 root [writeback]
28 root [crypto]
29 root [bioset]
30 root [kblockd]
31 root [kworker/0:1]
32 root [rpciod]
33 root [kswapd0]
34 root [fsnotify_mark]
35 root [nfsiod]
41 root [kthrotld]
42 root [VCHIQ-0]
43 root [VCHIQr-0]
44 root [VCHIQs-0]
45 root [iscsi_eh]
46 root [dwc_otg]
47 root [DWC Notificatio]
49 root [kworker/1:1]
50 root [VCHIQka-0]
51 root [SMIO]
52 root [deferwq]
54 root [mmcqd/0]
55 root [kworker/2:1]
56 root [jbd2/mmcblk0p7-]
57 root [ext4-rsv-conver]
58 root [kworker/1:2]
62 root [kworker/3:1]
80 root /sbin/syslogd -n
83 root /sbin/klogd -n
100 root /sbin/udevd -d
120 root [cfg80211]
121 root [brcmf_wq/mmc1:0]
123 root [brcmf_wdog/mmc1]
124 root [ksdioirqd/mmc1]
156 root [jbd2/mmcblk0p8-]
157 root [ext4-rsv-conver]
177 root /usr/sbin/lircd -n --driver=default --device=/dev/lirc0 --output
186 root [kworker/3:1H]
262 dbus dbus-daemon --system
276 root {S31emulationsta} /bin/sh /etc/init.d/S31emulationstation start
277 root {emulationstatio} /usr/bin emulationstation
293 root [kworker/1:1H]
298 root [kworker/0:1H]
300 root /usr/sixad/official/sixad-bin 0 0 0
305 root {bluetoothcontro} /bin/bash /recalbox/scripts/bluetoothcontrolle
310 root bluetoothd -u
381 root {recalbox-config} /bin/bash /recalbox/scripts/recalbox-config.sh
385 root /usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant -iwlan0 -c/var/lib/wpa_supplicant.conf
387 root [kworker/0:2]
405 root [kworker/2:1H]
416 root [kworker/2:2]
423 root udhcpc -R -n -p /var/run/udhcpc.wlan0.pid -i wlan0
432 root [ipv6_addrconf]
433 root /usr/sbin/ntpd -g
439 avahi avahi-daemon: running [RECALBOX.local]
441 root [kworker/3:2]
445 root /usr/sbin/dropbear -R
457 root smbd -D
459 root smbd -D
461 root smbd -D
462 root nmbd -D
473 root {powerswitch.sh} /bin/bash /recalbox/scripts/powerswitch.sh star
482 root python /recalbox/scripts/rpi-pin356-power.py
484 root node main.js
494 root python /usr/recalbox-manager/manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:80 --se
506 root /sbin/getty 38400 tty2
655 root /usr/sbin/dropbear -R
728 root -sh
772 root [kworker/u8:1]
1189 root [kworker/u8:2]
1464 root [kworker/u8:0]
1656 root sleep 10
1657 root ps -al
@supernature2k I apologize if you felt alluded , although I obviously did not realize who you were, I must confess I am gratified the person that developed the script is answering.
if you take a peek at my diagram you can see I am obviously invested in to making it work and have everything wired (To the best of my knowledge) perfectly.
As a side note, several times now after modifying the config file and rebooting the raspberry goes into a mad reboot cycle until I hit tab to get in to emergency mode and than re-exit.
last time it completely lost the config file and I had to copy and paste form the backup file.
Thank you for your input, Please find attached the result of the SSH request.
login as: root
root@192.168.1.9's password:
total 68
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Jan 1 1970 .
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Jan 1 1970 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 1 1970 .cache
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Dec 11 19:18 .config
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jan 1 1970 .emulationstation
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 1 1970 .hatari
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Dec 11 21:44 .kodi
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 1 1970 bluetooth
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Jan 1 1970 configs
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 1 1970 logs
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7751 Jan 1 1970 recalbox.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7752 Jan 1 1970 recalbox.old.conf
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 1 1970 ssh
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 1 1970 udev
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6 Jan 1 1970 update.done
@supernature2k have you actually seen or made it work (on latest revision of Recalbox)
or are you merely stating a theoretical fact?
@lackyluuk i am wired EXACTLY like that
Have un remed proper line in config file (through web browser interface)
Rebooted
Confirmed changes are still present in config file
Done all of this a second time on second rasberry Pi3
No results button does NOTHING
Have akso tried with and without reset and power led (these dont work either)
You may see my wiring diagram here
Http://www.780tech.com/rbox.jpg
Have tested with ONLY power switch
AND with power/reset & LED
Cant make even the power led work unless i attach to pin1(3v) + any ground
