Run Chiaki rpi01 without Desktop(X11) - Fredrum/chiaki GitHub Wiki

Run Chiaki without Desktop

Iv'e added some very rudimentary support for starting Chiaki up from outside of the desktop (X11) environment.

To get this working you'll need to build the latest version.

To test this you should have your Playstation already logged in then on your raspberry, in the CLI command line do,

~/path_to/chiaki/build/gui/chiaki --platform eglfs --retropie &

This should start up Chiaki, automatically select your first Playstation device (in case you have several registered) and start a session.

Some known Issues

  • You'll need a valid Chiaki.conf so either you'll need to run Chiaki from desktop first to get this or just copy one back to the same location from a previous install.

  • Sometimes a dialog pops up saying that a Wakeup packed has been sent. You'll need to click this away with a mouse or using the trackpad of a DS4 or Dualsense.

  • When in chiaki and Playstation session press R3+Circle to quit. (sometimes I get a crash and freeze when doing this)

  • If you're having gamepad mapping problems and are on a Retropie image then take a look at this.

  • Make sure to set codec to h264 in the chiaki prefs.