[miroof]

Hi Herbfargus,

Thanks a lot for your video, I will update the Github page to add it. I’m very happy to see that this project interests you :)

About emulationStation I was sure that the config was saved … So I will take a look very soon.

Miroof

[miroof]

Hi Herbfargus,

Thanks a lot for the explanations :)

To launch a node.js application at startup, I use the amazing project pm2:

https://github.com/Unitech/pm2

Simply run these commands:

# Install globally pm2
sudo npm install pm2 -g
# Launch virtual gamepads application with pm2
sudo pm2 start main.js
# Configure pm2 to launch at startup
sudo pm2 startup
# Save the current state of pm2 
# to reload all current applications at startup
sudo pm2 save

Normally it should launch the application again at startup. PM2 will also relaunch automatically the application in case of crash.

I highly recommand it for all node.js projects !

@zombiebraut I hope it’s OK for you now ?

Miroof

[miroof]

You got an EACCESS error because by default the application listens on port 80 and without root privileges you can’t listen on ports below 1024.

So you have two solutions :

The first one is to launch the application with sudo (sudo node main.js) and this page can help you : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4976658/on-ec2-sudo-node-command-not-found-but-node-without-sudo-is-ok

The second solution is to edit the file config.json by changing the port 80 for a port above 1024 (like 3000). In this case the application will be reachable at http://localhost:3000.

I never tried the application without root privileges so I hope you will not have other issues … The first solution is the best one for me.

And about installing node-gyp it’s the same, you can’t do that without root privileges.

Miroof

[miroof]

Hi Zombiebraut,

What is your node and npm version ?

You can check it with:

node --version
npm --version

Here are the steps I followed to install Node and npm:

# Download and unpack Node.js
wget http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.10.28/node-v0.10.28-linux-arm-pi.tar.gz
tar -xvzf node-v0.10.28-linux-arm-pi.tar.gz
rm -r node-v0.10.28-linux-arm-pi.tar.gz

# Move sources and create sym links
sudo mv node-v0.10.28-linux-arm-pi /opt/node

sudo mkdir /opt/bin

sudo ln -s /opt/node/bin/* /opt/bin/

# Add binaries to the PATH, add this line at the end of '/etc/profile' file
PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/opt/bin"

# test
npm --version

# Install node-gyp
npm install -g node-gyp

I remember that I encountered some issues by installing nodeJS and npm directly with aptitude.

Miroof

[miroof]

Hi t-m

This post may interest you. The way is different (Wi-Fi instead of Bluetooth) but the result is the same :)

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