OpenAuto Pro

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Made the switch from CrankShaft to OpenAuto Pro. You have to pay a one-time fee for a license but it seems to run more stable and it uses Raspbian as OS which makes it easier to add stuff to the platform.

Links

• OpenAuto Documentation

Config

• Applications: ~/.openauto/config/openauto_applications.ini

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Open RetroPie from application in OpenAuto Pro: Same issues as this one. RetroPie opens but when I pick a game I get a black screen and it returns back to RetroPi.

[Application_4]
Name=RetroPiev2
Path=/usr/bin/emulationstation
IconPath=/home/pi/.openauto/icons/icon_gamepad.png
Arguments=--no-splash
Autostart=false

The solution for this problem is runnig emulationstation using lxterminal:

[Application_0]
Name=RetroPie
Path=/usr/bin/lxterminal
IconPath=/home/pi/.openauto/icons/icon_retropie.png
Arguments=-e ./emulationstation.sh --hold
Autostart=false

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Test application config

[Applications]
Count=7

[Application_0]
Name=YouTube
Path=/usr/bin/chromium-browser
IconPath=/home/pi/.openauto/icons/icon_youtube.svg
Arguments=--user-data-dir=/home/pi/.google-chrome/session/youtube --app=https://youtube.com --start-maximized
Autostart=false

[Application_1]
Name=Kodi
Path=/usr/local/kodi/bin/kodi
IconPath=/home/pi/.openauto/icons/icon_kodi.png
Arguments=
Autostart=false

[Application_2]
Name=Chromium
Path=/usr/bin/chromium-browser
IconPath=/home/pi/.openauto/icons/icon_chrome.svg
Arguments=--start-maximized
Autostart=false

[Application_3]
Name=Welle.io
Path=/usr/local/bin/welle-io-1
IconPath=/home/pi/.openauto/icons/icon_welleio.png
Arguments=--disable-splash
Autostart=false

[Application_4]
Name=RetroPiev2
Path=/usr/bin/emulationstation
IconPath=/home/pi/.openauto/icons/icon_gamepad.png
Arguments=--no-splash
Autostart=false

[Application_5]
Name=RetroPiev2
Exec=/usr/bin/emulationstation --no-splash
IconPath=/home/pi/.openauto/icons/icon_gamepad.png
PATH=/home/pi/
Type=Application
Terminal=true

[Application_6]
Name=MarioCard
Path=/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh
IconPath=/home/pi/.openauto/icons/icon_gamepad.png
Arguments= 0 _SYS_ n64 /home/pi/game1.z64
Autostart=false

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Setup

• Flash latest OpenAuto on SD card
• Add openauto_license.dat in boot folder and add your license key
• (Optional) Add wpa_supplicant.conf to configure wifi
• Boot with SD card
• Enter serial (do not know why I had to enter it again) and close open auto
• Go through raspbian config menu (change pi password, setup keyboard, update OS,...)
• SSH into device
• apt-get install vim git
• Install RetroPie https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Manual-Installation/
• Via RetroPie setup menu install drive package for ps3 controller and follow steps to connect

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Make sure to plug in USB sound card because otherwise you just seem to get a black screen when trying to start Android Auto.

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OpenAuto Command triggering using code

This can be done by using xdotool and triggering certain key presses.

For example this will trigger a volume up:

xdotool key F8

For testing this over SSH you can use:

export DISPLAY=:0.0 && xdotool key F8

List of all keyboard controls can be found under Keyboard Controls in this documentation.