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::UPDATE:: 2/8/18
Well still waiting on the Power board should hopefully be in soon. On a brighter note i managed to get a really small charging board to use in the build that is no bigger then a quarter. At the time or writing this it has seen 2 charges, I will say that it does seem to take a while to charge the battery and the charger does seem to get really hot, but doesnt seem hot enough to cause any damage. Here is a link to the boards got them pretty cheap for a 10 pack off of amazon. If anyone has any other insight on these boards please let me know. As for the battery life I finally got around to testing that yesterday by just letting it run with video demo in background on. It seems to run for about 2:45 - 3 hours which I would say is pretty damn good for a self built game machine, hell its even almost as much as the NS running xenoblade chronicles 2. The battery is a 3800mAh Li-ion battery only problem is due to its size and size of the case i have it out on the back of the system for now (at least there doesn't seem to be any heat build up on it from charging.)
As for the OSBD I'm still not sure if it is the build I have, but any time I try to run Hoolyhoos script it causes my speakers to just play static on any noise. I checked the scripts for the battery monitor, shutdown, my audio bonnet, and my external volume controls but I dont see a conflict with them. Perhaps i need to get a few of the interference rings to put around the speakers and see if that will work, unless anyone else has any ideas or would like to take a look at all the scripts to see if there is something I am missing.
Once I get the power board in I believe I am going to try to hard wire the controller to the power board so that way when I turn on console it will also turn on the controller instead of just running bluetooth, it might draw a little more power consumption due to it running off of the usb port or it might be about the same as if i ran it from the bluetooth connection. Hopefully I dont need to reconfigure all the damn controllers for all the emulators cause that was a Pain in the ass.
I will try to add more pictures soon since im finally on vacation from my job so i can get a little more time to work on it, I feel I am so close to finishing this just really want the OSBD and I think after that only thing would be a new case to fit everything better/ give a better look. Cause as of right now the official raspberry pi 7 inch case isn't the best looking but it does the job for now.
UPDATE 03/12/2018
Finally got the battery monitor working, turns out the adafruit audio bonnet does not play nice with hoolyhoos script so I had to go the USB audio route with audio amp. working on getting volume buttons thanks to Hoolyhoos script but seems to be hit and miss as of now. Still need to make my own case however cause due to the amount of boards in it ( I think 5-6 ) it is getting crowded in there with all the wires. Made a little video of it working and just going through what I have on it ( was also showing a friend the portable.) It's a 200gb sd card so it's got alot of stuff on it. Here is the video for progress so far and a small look at it.
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