Use Mobile Phone to:Kill Emu, Restart ..

[mailtoflo-de]

Hi
found something usefull for remotecontrolling the RetroPie:
I found an Android-App called “SSH Button”

It just shows a list of big Buttons you can add a ssh-call to.

So for “Kill running Emulators”, “Reboot”, “Poweroff”, “Start Emulationstation” i just had to add the SSH-Commands:

“sudo pkill -f emulators”
“sudo reboot”
“Sudo poweroff”
“emulationstation”
“sudo pkill -f emulationstation”

..it works just sweet..as long as you are in the same network..but very well for me.

[whettingstone]

Since it’s SSH you should be able to run this even from outside of the network the Pi is connected to provided you’ve got port 22 forwarded in your router.

[herbfargus]

Hey thanks for the tip! I don’t know why I didn’t do this before… Makes my life easier for sure.
I use an app for android called raspi ssh which does essentially the same thing.

[mailtoflo-de]

I still have a small problem:
When I kill Emulators with pkill, the resolution of the EmulationStation is messed up – untill I start another Game and quit it the usual way with the Gamepad.

(using latest 2.x Beta)

Has anyone a hint how to reset the correct HD-Resolution for the Emulationstation again?

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