Follow RePlayOS#

If you play games on a RePlayOS box, the display can follow it. When you start a game the panel shows that game, and while you browse the menus it plays a playlist of your choice. The display asks the box what it's doing every couple of seconds over your WiFi. Nothing needs installing on the box.

Set it up#

1. Turn on NET CONTROL. On the RePlayOS box, open System and turn on NET CONTROL.
2. Find the address and code. Still on the box, open System › Information. It shows the box's address, such as 192.168.1.20, and its NET CONTROL code.
3. Enter them. In the web app, open Settings › RePlayOS. Type the address under RePlayOS address and the code under NET CONTROL code. A name works too, such as replay.local if your network has one for the box. Add :port only if you've moved RePlayOS off its usual port.
4. Test. Press Test. It says which RePlayOS version answered and what the box is doing, or why it couldn't reach it, such as a wrong code.
5. Pick the attract playlist. Choose the Attract playlist, which plays while the box is in its menus: any playlist, or The current playlist. Then turn on Follow RePlayOS.

The code is kept on the display and never shown again. If you change the address, type the code again.

What the panel does#

• When a game starts, the panel plays a short power-on effect, then the console's logo (one from your card if the playlist has one, else a card with its name), then a title card with the game's name.
• While you play, it shows GIFs of that console, with GIFs of that game coming up far more often than the rest.
• In the menus, it plays the attract playlist. After a game it waits a little before going back to it, in case you start another.
• When the box is off or can't be reached, the panel plays as usual, and picks up again once the box answers.

Night mode still comes first: while it has the panel off, nothing starts, and a game that's running shows once the panel comes back.

Now shows what the display is following under the title, such as "Following RePlayOS · Mega Drive · Sonic the Hedgehog 3". Settings › RePlayOS shows the same, and when the box last answered.

Tips#

• For a clock in the menus, add the bundled Big clock Formula to a playlist and choose that one as the attract playlist. It follows the time zone in Settings › Schedule.
• The GIFs come from the playlist that's playing, so a game shows only if that playlist has GIFs of its console. Name them as described in The SD card and they're found by their platform and title.