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Introducing arcadeEIP
Mobhit265:
I will spend more time with it this evening. I am using this with Launchbox/Bigbox but also starting it stand alone to quickly test things. I will keep track of combinations before this happens.
I also could not get the "." to even work when mapped to stream deck but using keyboard works perfectly. I used hotkey and hotkey switch in stream deck, neither worked...kind of weird.
gildahl:
Yes, it would be good to isolate whether this happens stand-alone, or only when in combination with LB/BB.
Regarding the "." key, there are a few things to keep in mind. If your arcadeEIP.ini file is in its default state, then the period is assigned as both the "magic_key" and the "exit_key". So assuming kiosk_mode=0 (the default), then the operation is that a short press of the period key will exit, and a long press (by default, 2 seconds) will show the menu (or to reverse this, you would set kiosk_mode=1). This ability to use one button for two functions is achieved using a hardware strobe, so it requires a real keyboard or a hardware board acting as one (such as an ipac) to work. It will not work using the hotkeys sent by the Stream Deck, unfortunately.
The good news though is that this should only be an issue if you wanted to, say, exit a game using a button on the Stream Deck rather than using your control panel (or keyboard). If you want to do this, one way is to assign the magic_key to a value that isn't used, like magic_key=? (or alternately, assign the exit_key to a value different than the magic_key). Doing this will effectively disable the "magic key" function, and revert to strictly discrete key operation (for example, " . " to exit and " ' " to display the menu), and both of these should now work with the Stream Deck's hotkey macro.
If you really wanted to have both a discrete exit function that worked with the Stream Deck, while also preserving the magic_key function for your control panel, let me know and I could consider adding an independent discrete exit key.
[Edit] I just went ahead and added a new discrete quit_key setting to arcadeEIP.ini. If you download the newest version (0.3.3.3) and just replace the executables and add quit_key=~ to the [Key Map] section, you should now be able to program a Stream Deck hotkey button as "~" to exit without messing with the magic_key/exit_key functionality (so you can probably mostly ignore the information above if you want). I'm not sure if that's what you were looking for, but it seemed like a good thing to add regardless.
Mobhit265:
Here is what I have discovered. If I map a game to the stream deck and launch ArcadeEIP the menu button just dims the screen, as soon as I exit EIP and come back everything works fine. It only occurs after mapping a game to stream deck, and only before I exit EIP.
EDIT: I was unable to repeat this just now. It happened twice before. I was launching standalone each time.
EDIT: It did it again....it seems to happen randomly but only after I map a game to stream deck. This is not a big deal just thought you might want to know.
gildahl:
First off, what do you have your StreamDeck buttons programmed to do (give me an example of the script)?
If you are using arcadeEIP standalone, the way it should work is that you would first start arcadeEIP so that a game is running. The Stream Deck's buttons, which would each be pre-programmed with macros to trigger the hot-string file associated with each game, will then allow you to switch to the games you want to play (you would not normally use the Stream Deck to actually launch arcadeEIP or exit it--you only use it to tell arcadeEIP what game to switch to).
There is a file in the ..\Docs\[Front_End] examples folder of arcadeEIP called StreamDeck.txt that explains how this works in a bit more detail. Did you happen to setup your StreamDeck according to the directions in that file?
Dave
Mobhit265:
I set up my streamdeck through the docs. I have set it up to change games and other commands in EIP such as menu, last game, pause etc.
I am not using it to launch eip or exit it. I set up the "." before I realised the other ways of bringing up menu.
When my cabinet is finished I will be using Launchbox/Bigbox