RomM App For Cloudron

[murgero]

They just merged the fix into their beta branch so only a matter of time now before I can rework this app to use the cloudron base

[murgero]

Bumping to let people know I have not forgotten, its just been a busy summer for me!

[eyecreate]

I put some effort today to package this app. I'm putting a link here to my repo, but it's not complete. Still need to figure out if I can get OIDC working and need to work on the config file and make use of /app/data. I took some ideas from what @murgero last showed and the official romm dockerfile, but built it using cloudron packaging format examples and supervisord.
https://git.cloudron.io/eyecreate/romm
I'll post here when I make any changes. Would love feedback from those knowing more about OIDC how to get it working.

Edit: cloudron gitlab has been spotty so here is a mirror: https://git.eyecreate.org/eyecreate/cloudron-romm

[murgero]

@eyecreate Thank you for this! I have lost a lot of time IRL with work and family stuff so someone else taking the mantle here is really helpful. I'll definitely be checking this out

[eyecreate]

Okay, I made some progress since I last wrote: I fixed some bugs preventing app from working and found a way to get OIDC working too. Now I need to put some effort into using the app and make sure everything is working, especially the remote api services and fix my bad use of secret key.

[eyecreate]

Made some more progress today: I put some env vars in a file that can be written by user for api keys, added missing workers for jobs, and pulled in precompiled emujs and ruffle from release image. Some things are not set up right still so emujs doesn't work, but one step closer. I'll also look into adding the TURN support for netplay in latest version.

[eyecreate]

Okay, I made some more updates today: one step back to take two steps forward. I realized there was another dockerfile in the romm github when trying to figure out why a number of things weren't working. That dockerfile was for production, unlike the one I was looking at. I decided to use more of the processes they have there to try and get the missing features: I needed to use nginx instead of the node dev server and compile some custom modules for nginx. While I was making these changes, I made other parts of the docker build process more mult-stage. The end result is downloading roms and using the emulator work now. Next I'll see what it'll take to get netplay working and check more features out. I feel like I've gotten close to finished!

[eyecreate]

I reached out to Romm devs to try and figure out why I'm seeing a bug in my build but not official docker image.(rom with id of 1 won't work with emulator) In the meantime, I tested out netplay and it works! Will update once I hear back.

[eyecreate]

Next release of romm should contain fixes for every issue I've found. I'd consider it usable at that point.

[eyecreate]

4.7.0 is released! I tested the rom patching and it seems to work now. I have nothing left to develop and get working now. Will do a polish pass on packaging, but hopefully this can either get into the cloudron app store or upcoming community app.

[joseph]

@eyecreate please consider making a community app - https://docs.cloudron.io/packaging/publishing/ . You can test it against the demo server (my.demo.cloudron.io), if you haven't updated to 9.1 release.