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Raspberry Pi as Plex Server

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April 2023 I’m a proud mother of a 18 months old boy named Dante. I wanted to save all his photos in a place different from my smartphone but to have access to them whenever I’m home. So I thought it would be a great opportunity to use my Raspberry 4 which is laying around…

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Arcade – How to switch from MagicMirror to RetroPie using a push button connected to a GPIO pin

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Recently I have shown how to launch MagicMirror from RetroPie. You can check it out here! I also have shown how to switch back to RetroPie from MagicMirror using USB joystick buttons. Because I wanted to turn off the LEDs from the buttons while using MagicMirror I needed to disable power to the USB ports.…

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Arcade – How to switch from MagicMirror to RetroPie using Joystick Buttons

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Recently I have shown how to launch MagicMirror from RetroPie. You can check it out here! Now I want to show the opposite: How to access RetroPie from MagicMirror (running on LXDE desktop) using USB joystick buttons (by replacing mouse and keyboard). It’s possible to quit MagicMirror and to end LXDE desktop and go back…

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Arcade – How to launch MagicMirror from RetroPie

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I’m new to Raspberry Pi and I have recently built an Arcade with it, using an old monitor and 2 Player Joystick Buttons. Now I’m trying to explore the full potential of the Raspberry Pi and I wanted to launch the MagicMirror application from RetroPie. My version of RetroPie is comit f90600 (Date: Jul 30…

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