RetroArch & Syncthing
Remembered watching a Linux Youtuber, once referenced how he has his RetroPie configured with syncthing. For automated game saves. Without having to copy and paste the game saves from different computers. This has been a project that I have been wanting to complete. Now with the latest edition of my Valve Steamdeck to my tech gear.
There is a post in the past of when I had setup syncthing for document sync. Then replaced syncthing with Nextcloud. Having setup syncthing via docker and tested over the weekend and it works on my computers. The last piece was to configure my retropie.
Once you setup RetroPie. I followed this youtube video for syncthing installation. Then added the first few commands (below) of this article and then finally updating syncthing on the RetroPie.
- sudo apt install apt-transport-https
- curl -s https://syncthing.net/release-key.txt | gpg –dearmor | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/syncthing-archive-keyring.gpg >/dev/null
- echo “deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/syncthing-archive-keyring.gpg] https://apt.syncthing.net/ syncthing stable” | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/syncthing.list
It did not work at first when I followed the pimylifeup article. I had to re-image my retropie. Then tested it by doing it another way and it finally worked. Had to install Syncthing first then do the minor configurations and update. Syncthing works on startup and on every reboot.
