Scraper stops when entering "dim" mode

[schoem]

Hi,

[I’m running Retropie Version 3.0 BETA 2 on Raspberry Pi 2]

So, I have about 7k roms in my Retropie and I would like to scrape all the meta data, but after a while it dims the screen and the scraper stops scraping.

How do I
a) turn off the dim fuction OR
b) make sure the scraper continues running even with a dimmed screen?

Thanks,
Chris

[schoem]

I’m officially an idiot.
Sorry!

Of course you can set the timer for the DIM function to 0 Minutes, which (I would assume) turns it off; haven’t tried it though.

I’ll try that!

[Floob]

I’d recommend using sselphs scraper. It is currently far better than the built in ES one.

https://github.com/sselph/scraper

[schoem]

Okayyy! Thanks!
That requires some more reading. :)

Or is there a guide on how to use it somewhere?

[Floob]

The video above should help.

But in short, get to a terminal screen on the Pi and type the following (assuming you have a Pi 2 Model B)

wget https://github.com/sselph/scraper/releases/download/v0.7.4-beta/scraper_rpi2.zip
then
sudo unzip scraper_rpi2.zip scraper -d /usr/local/bin/
then
scraper -scrape_all -thumb_only

[schoem]

I apologize.
My JavaScript blocker removed the video.

[chooky536]

yes thankyou so much for that link i didnt know of this issue and left it running overnight expecting it to be complete in the morning scraped about 300 games and froze lol this seems to be working sweet from putty

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