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by mmason75123
Wed 19 Sep 2018 15:21
Forum: Tutorials and support
Topic: Battery level
Replies: 7
Views: 7735

Re: Battery level

Any chance we can get a tutorial on this?

All the issues I have with this device are around not knowing when the battery is low and it corrupting the SD card!
by mmason75123
Sat 15 Sep 2018 12:28
Forum: Tutorials and support
Topic: Ethernet connection problem.
Replies: 9
Views: 7825

Re: Ethernet connection problem.

assuming you have connected the retrostone to your router with the ethernet cable and not your PC, try rebooting with the cable plugged in if you're command line savvy, plug in a keyboard, exit emulationstation to the terminal and run sudo service networking restart this should give the DHCP service...
by mmason75123
Sun 9 Sep 2018 13:24
Forum: Tutorials and support
Topic: Screen alignment
Replies: 3
Views: 3718

Re: Screen alignment

Select the default NTSC setting near the bottom of the list to make the screen on the handset work
by mmason75123
Sat 8 Sep 2018 12:47
Forum: Tutorials and support
Topic: Sound from headphone jack extremely quiet
Replies: 44
Views: 39782

Re: Sound from headphone jack extremely quiet

Given that we are saving him time and money by fixing the incorrectly manufactured units ourselves, I would expect the warranty to still be valid, especially as this is undertaken on his recommendation. With this said, if you're concerned about messing up your unit, please do us all a favour and DO ...
by mmason75123
Fri 7 Sep 2018 20:18
Forum: Tutorials and support
Topic: Joystick Order Selection
Replies: 3
Views: 4445

Re: Joystick Order Selection

There are two statements to run in the install instructions. Run this to download the install script: curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/meleu/RetroPie-joystick-selection/master/install.sh -o install.sh And then this to run it: bash install.sh After its installed, you can delete the script if yo...
by mmason75123
Fri 7 Sep 2018 12:52
Forum: Tutorials and support
Topic: Switching off the screen
Replies: 2
Views: 3009

Re: Switching off the screen

This is what I'd hoped... do you have a GPIO map? The way I imagine this to work is via sysfs e.g: echo 10 > /sys/class/gpio/export echo out > /sys/class/gpio/gpio10/direction echo 1 > /sys/class/gpio/gpio10/value Found the datasheet (http://dl.linux-sunxi.org/H3/Allwinner_H3_Datasheet_V1.0.pdf - Ch...
by mmason75123
Thu 6 Sep 2018 19:27
Forum: Tutorials and support
Topic: Switching off the screen
Replies: 2
Views: 3009

Switching off the screen

While accessing over SSH I'd like to be able to shut the screen off to save power.

Can anyone share a command to turn off power to the LCD? Perhaps I'll use the GPIO button for this purpose.

Thanks