Configuration from Headless mode

[sairuk]

We have added this tool to RetroNAS and were looking for some guidance on passing configuration options to the headless launch, either through env vars, env file or cli something to that effect.

Is this possible/planned?

Thanks

Refer: https://github.com/danmons/retronas/commit/d116559aca5fe97b2fc75e0372370ecef29fd143

[david-schmidt]

The way external adopters have approached this in the past is to script things such as start and stop (start is easy enough; stop is some combination of ps and kill -9). You have full control of all configuration via the config file ADTPro.properties - if you shut ADTPro down, modify that file, then start it back up, it'll use those configuration values.

The full raft of things it writes isn't really documented, but some examples are:

#ADTPro.properties
#Tue Nov 22 09:25:11 EST 2022
CommPort=/dev/serial
CommPortSpeed=115200
CommPortBootstrapSpeed=9600
WorkingDirectory=/some/where
SerialIPHost=localhost
CommPort=COM1
CoordX=373
CoordY=3
CoordH=222
CoordW=311
CommPortBootstrapPacing=250
HardwareHandshaking=false
TraceEnabled=false
SerialIPPort=1977

And then you can have it start up as connected in whatever mode you want by invoking it with e.g. adtpro.sh headless serial.

[sairuk]

thank you for this information, exactly what i was looking for.

I was not seeing a config generated on headless run, so was curious how to go about this.