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MiSTer_SAM_off.sh calls

which disables SAM for the current session. It doesn't disable autostart, that's correct. You can change this setting in the menu.

I am LOVING Mister SAM + tty2oled as a set-top decoration for my CRT and 'curator' for this little museum of classic gaming and computing. Feature request – would it be possible to have an option/flag in MiSTer_SAM.ini to cycle between the tty2oled core .XBM pic and the Mister SAM text descriptors/countdown, and perhaps specify how often in second...

New MegaAGS image is finally available. This release has built in SAM support:
viewtopic.php?p=64186#p64186

Thanks for the ideas, do you mind opening a GitHub issue for a feature request? It's easier to track for us

Great to hear. You can play around with the values a little. In my case, changing it to: video_mode=1440,140,160,190,240,3,10,6,27000 made it fit even better (centered) on my setup. The three values are Horizontal front porch (140), Sync (160) and back porch (190). which control the width and centering of the picture. Adjusting vertical sync is a l...

These settings are working on my PVM 2030. Make sure to set Aspect Ratio to Full Screen in Audio and Video Section of the core

SAM's button detection might give you a way to map additional joystick buttons: https://github.com/mrchrisster/MiSTer_SAM/blob/main/.MiSTer_SAM/MiSTer_SAM_joy.py They wouldn't be assigned to MiSTer's input map file though so buttons will be randomly assigned. You could however have a button mapping script. SAM is doing this currently to map the sta...

Works well for me, thanks! Tested PSX US and NES

Hey smaman, I'll add an option to disable play. Then you can update normally and in case it affects other users, we have this covered

Edit:
You can now disable play in the menu under settings -> Background Music Player

I was worried about that as well. Since the display gets cleared every time a new core comes up, i hope this will prevent burn in. At least I haven't noticed any problems yet with my units and I usually let it run all the time (even through the night) to test stability.

New version is up: - SAM now creates gamelists in the background. That means you'll never have to wait for gamelists to be compiled before SAM starts playing games. SAM in general should be a lot more snappy now. - Most settings are now configurable through the settings menu in SAM menu. - Select alternative core selection mode from the menu where ...

Great stuff! I don't mind at all, it's open source for a reason
The play command gets ignored for me if BGM is already playing music, so not sure why this happens. Hopefully it helps wizzo tracking down the issue!

Hey smaman, as you already know by now...that's a really strange issue you're having! I think a video is not necessary since you can see both streams are playing in your ps output. Unfortunately I can't offer any more help. For now, maybe just have one playlist in the music folder and see if wizzo can offer any more insight. One other thing to chec...

quite puzzling why you have 1134 root {MiSTer_SAM_mous} /bin/bash /media/fat/Scripts/.MiSTer_SAM/MiSTer_SAM_mouse.sh in memory. That code is older than 6 months and obsolete. We switched to a python script a long time ago for mouse detection... If you open the SAM menu (push up when the countdown shows) you will find the reset menu. This way you ca...

Judging by your output you're using a pretty old version of SAM..
Please reset SAM, reinstall bgm and let's see if that helps. Not sure why you have those old mouse.sh scripts in your processes output, we've not been using them for a while

quick note: if you uninstall and reinstall bgm through the SAM menu, it will automatically pull the new release for you.

I talked to wizzo about your issue, hopefully he has a solution for you. If you want BGM in the menu you have to set bgmstop=No in MiSTer_SAM.ini. It is currently set to yes, that's why bgm doesn't come up after SAM stops. Not that this will help but you can manually kill one of the streams. The first number is the process id. For your example, typ...

This might be a wizzo question in the bgm thread. I've not been able to get bgm to play twice with my setup.
If you paste the following command in ssh it should show one bgm.sh running.
Maybe there are two bgm scripts running at once for you?

Ok that's progress.
Set bgmstop=No in MiSTer_SAM.ini to have BGM playing in the menu. Not sure why you have two songs playing. Maybe uninstall/reinstall BGM through SAM's menu. I don't seem to have this issue on my 2 test setups.

Just testing the new version, should be up soon. I've had this happen before where bgm would play songs twice, not sure why... with the new version we won't use a SAM core anymore. Hopefully this will work better when using mute function. Edit: New version is up with some BGM improvements and new mute functions. SAM will now use default cores again...

Not having the same display settings is actually a major problem and can't be fixed with the current implementation.
I think I might go back to only mount individual volume config files since even with the setname feature we have to do a bunch of mount bind operations... I'll take a crack at it later.

Hey SmaMan, Thanks for the feedback! The reason it now says SAM for all cores is that this way we can set the volume to low without ever affecting values of the cores itself. Big Pro: None of the user configs will get affected this way. Users have had issues with the old method which simply mounted the config folder to /tmp dir. Big Con: This means...

Awesome, glad it works now

It looks like the line ttydevice="/dev/ttyUSB0" was missing in the ini. I added it now. Can you update and change this to your device name? Hopefully it's as simple as that :) Edit: Hmm, looking further into it, it should grab the right device from the tty user ini, so this can't be it. Interesting that it worked with the older version. E...

Ah thanks that's good to know. tty2oled is based on paradox's submodule so I have to check if ttyUSB0 is the culprit here.
Any info in ssh monitor as to why it stopped shuffling?

Hey @LamerDeluxe thanks for checking! I have 2 Mister setups with 2x tty2oled displays and did a reset to ensure everything works from scratch. I haven't encountered this issue. Do you happen to know what board is driving your tty2oled display? Mine is a devkit v4 but maybe there is problems with other tty boards? After reset, did you re-enable tty...

SAM now does not mount over the config folder anymore even when mute is used. More details here: viewtopic.php?p=60562#p60562

@dcubed Welcome Glad you're liking it!

Lots of updates for SAM: - @Paradox has been busy creating an awesome tty2oled script for SAM: tty_ani.gif Shoutout as well to @venice who has added SAM support to tty2oled officially now Be sure to update tty2oled to enjoy the new tty2oled display. - @wizzo (author of such awesome scripts as background music player, favorites finder and game searc...

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