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Raspberry Pi fork of the Free and Open Source PS4 and PS5 Remote Play client Chiaki.

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Start chiaki with a service

AndSchroeder opened this issue · comments

commented

Can you add an instruction on how to create a service or a way to start chiaki after startup of the pi?

commented

I actually did this a few weeks ago for a little remote 'chiaki box' I gave my son to keep at his mum's so he can play on the PS5 when he's there too. I have a lot of 'real life' stuff I need to tend to in the near future so it might take some time. It's not hard to do though I'll see if I can find some links that were not to confusing to follow.

commented

Actually its probably best if you just google it and try. I'm not going to have much time to do this and its sort of a separate thing.
But please if you get a good solution post it here for others maybe?

commented

I use the following .service file in my user-level systemd directory to start it:

[Unit]
Description=Chiaki
After=network.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/home/brantai/chiaki-rpi/build-release/rpi/chiaki-rpi 2>&1
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

Replace the ExecStart with wherever you've built your chiaki-rpi binary.

commented

I remember in my version I made a bash script instead of calling the executable straight from the service.
I then added something like a 'sleep 3' in which allowed me to cancel out inbetween restarts if I needed to do some fixes.
Otherwise I got stuck in a restart loop which was a bit tricky to break out of.

I also added another bash script to stop the service which I named a really short name like 'qq' so that I had time to type it in those three sleeping seconds.

Maybe there's a smarter way to handle that stuff than what I did?

commented

Hey I was not able to start it with a service, but I found another approach.
I created an autostart file to start a script in the gui.

first of all I created the bash script for starting chiaki directly in my home dir (start-chiaki.sh):

#! /bin/bash
sleep 5
chiaki-rpi/build/rpi/chiaki-rpi 2>&1

Additionally I added a gui autostart file

sudo nano /etc/xdg/autostart/psremote.desktop

After that I run the bash script to start chiaki

[Desktop Entry]
Exec=/home/username/start-chiaki.sh

Than i restarted with sudo reboot and chiaki started as well.

Now I only have to find a way to start it in desktop mode. Maybe another section in the wiki about autostart would be helpful.