Hey all.
I'd like to introduce to you, Tesla: My answer to the growing need for proper ingame front ends for sysmodules.

What is this?

• Tesla consists of three individual parts. nx-ovlloader, the Tesla menu and libtesla.
  • nx-ovlloader is basically nx-hbloader ported to run as a sysmodule. It runs in the background and loads overlay NROs (.ovl files) given to it.
  • Tesla Menu is the equivalent to the hbmenu. It's the initial thing loaded by nx-ovlloader and acts as a hub for you to select all other overlays.
  • libtesla is where it becomes interesting for developers. It's an easy to use library that handles layer creation, UI drawing and all the overlay UX. It makes it very easy to create a new overlay for anything
• A frontend for sysmodules that before required either a homebrew or a config file to change settings or used sounds or the LED to give the user feedback.

What is this not?

• A tool that lets you create overlays that are always visible. Overlays can get unloaded way to easily for this.
• An excuse to port absolutely everything to a overlay. Nobody's going to need a title manager overlay. If you consider making a overlay, keep it simple. You don't have a whole lot of memory to work with.

How do I use this?

First of all, download the latest release of nx-ovlloader and the Tesla Menu from the GitHub Release page and extract it onto your SD card.
After a reboot, hold down L and DPad Down and push on the right joy stick to bring up Tesla at any time. Navigation works as you imagine it.
Similar to normal homebrews, you place your .ovl files in the /switch/.overlays folder on your SD card.


Screenshots

Spoiler: Screenshots

Notice

Make sure to use the latest Atmosphere release when trying this as older versions ( as the one SX OS uses too ) probably won't have enough memory available for this to run. Overlays do take a lot of space so nx-ovlloader reserves 6MB. 2MB for framebuffers and around 4MB for overlay developers to use in their overlays.


GitHub

nx-ovlloader: https://github.com/WerWolv/nx-ovlloader
Tesla Menu: https://github.com/WerWolv/Tesla-Menu


For Developers

libtesla: https://github.com/WerWolv/libtesla
Tesla build template: https://github.com/WerWolv/Tesla-Template


Download

nx-ovlloader: https://github.com/WerWolv/nx-ovlloader/releases/latest
Tesla-Menu: https://github.com/WerWolv/Tesla-Menu/releases/latest
EdiZon Overlay: http://werwolv.net/downloads/EdiZonOverlay.zip ( As a little preview for what this is capable of and what EdiZon 4.0.0 will have even more of soon )

Special thank especially to averne without him, this would not have been possible!


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Thanks a lot and have fun using and extending it

 

[flipboitamidles]

I'm having an issue. I have Tesla, Edizon, Sys-clk, and System Monitor installed. Everything works fine. However let's say I choose to have System Monitor Mini Overlay on and try to go back to the Tesla Menu, it won't go to it. I press the L button, down dpad, and click right stick again but nothing happens. It won't go back to the Tesla Menu. Any help?

 

[impeeza]

try first press R and L stick at same time then try to load tesla again.

 

[Soler37]

Is 16.0.3 stable and are all the overlays compatible?
thanks

 

[Hypertough]

I just installed this yesterday. but can't make it work in dock mode. first time it crashed my switch. but now nothing happens. If I remove my switch and do it in handheld mode it works fine.

 

[josete2k]

I just installed this yesterday. but can't make it work in dock mode. first time it crashed my switch. but now nothing happens. If I remove my switch and do it in handheld mode it works fine.

Tesla only works in 100% scale when docked.

 

[impeeza]

Is 16.0.3 stable and are all the overlays compatible?
thanks

it's the other way, 16.0.3 is not compatible with nothing, you need versions of Tesla, ovlMenu and overlays compatible with latest Atmosphère which is indeed compatible with latest firmware.

An example of latest overlays can be found on: https://gbatemp.net/threads/tesla-the-nintendo-switch-overlay-menu.557362/post-10121629

 

[Hypertough]

Tesla only works in 100% scale when docked.

i don't understand what you mean. i see it does work if i go to the home screen. i can use it and do what i want. but not in game.

 

[cagerhager]

Any suggestions on sys-ftpd for the overlay? It seems to be the thing causing my switch to crash. Not sure of TOTK is impacting, but it worked without issue on 15 and updated to 16.03 and that's the only one not working.

 

[DBlaze]

I have no clue what i'm doing wrong, but for some reason I cannot get sysmodules to work, it crashes every time, docked or handheld.
Everything else works fine: Status monitor 0.9.0, sys-clk 1.0.3, emuiibo 1.0.0 (although it doesnt do anything because sysmodules refuses to load). But as soon as i want to go into sysmodules, regardless of if i use the latest version from the repo or the attached version in the many times linked post of this thread, it crashes.

Atmosphere 1.5.2, fw 16.0.2
I'm at a loss of what i'm doing wrong

 

[linuxares]

I have no clue what i'm doing wrong, but for some reason I cannot get sysmodules to work, it crashes every time, docked or handheld.
Everything else works fine: Status monitor 0.9.0, sys-clk 1.0.3, emuiibo 1.0.0 (although it doesnt do anything because sysmodules refuses to load). But as soon as i want to go into sysmodules, regardless of if i use the latest version from the repo or the attached version in the many times linked post of this thread, it crashes.

Atmosphere 1.5.2, fw 16.0.2
I'm at a loss of what i'm doing wrong

Make sure you update these two.

https://github.com/WerWolv/nx-ovlloader
https://github.com/WerWolv/Tesla-Menu

Some miss the nx-ovlloader.

 

[impeeza]

I have no clue what i'm doing wrong, but for some reason I cannot get sysmodules to work, it crashes every time, docked or handheld.
Everything else works fine: Status monitor 0.9.0, sys-clk 1.0.3, emuiibo 1.0.0 (although it doesnt do anything because sysmodules refuses to load). But as soon as i want to go into sysmodules, regardless of if i use the latest version from the repo or the attached version in the many times linked post of this thread, it crashes.

Atmosphere 1.5.2, fw 16.0.2
I'm at a loss of what i'm doing wrong

you can for testing purposes:

• Make a backup of your SD:\Atmosphere folder.
• Delete the SD:\Atmosphere folder.
• Download from atmosphère github the latest package (even if you think you have the last one). Extract it to the root of your SD Card. do the same for Tesla and OvlMenu. Test your console. Turn it off
• Download latest OVLs you like to run and extract to your SD Card; test your console. Turn it off
• Downlad the latest Sysmodule you like to try and copy to your card, Test the console

If you need some config or mod you always can find it on your backup and copy it to your sd card, remember to restar your console once you copy any file to SD:\Atmosphere\contents folder.

 

[DBlaze]

Make sure you update these two.

https://github.com/WerWolv/nx-ovlloader
https://github.com/WerWolv/Tesla-Menu

Some miss the nx-ovlloader.

Did get those, i'll follow impeeza's steps and see what happens

 

[linuxares]

Did get those, i'll follow impeeza's steps and see what happens

You might have an old tesla plugin somewhere in the contents folder. So it's really a good idea to "start over".

 

[DBlaze]

you can for testing purposes:

• Make a backup of your SD:\Atmosphere folder.
• Delete the SD:\Atmosphere folder.
• Download from atmosphère github the latest package (even if you think you have the last one). Extract it to the root of your SD Card. do the same for Tesla and OvlMenu. Test your console. Turn it off
• Download latest OVLs you like to run and extract to your SD Card; test your console. Turn it off
• Downlad the latest Sysmodule you like to try and copy to your card, Test the console

If you need some config or mod you always can find it on your backup and copy it to your sd card, remember to restar your console once you copy any file to SD:\Atmosphere\contents folder.

You might have an old tesla plugin somewhere in the contents folder. So it's really a good idea to "start over".

Yeah, I guess there was a stray file somewhere, it's working again after completely redoing things

 

[impeeza]

Yeah, I guess there was a stray file somewhere, it's working again after completely redoing things

I told you, is a bad thing to say, but, he he he, but seriously, I am glad you could get it working now. your backup will let you to recover any software you like.

 

[DBlaze]

I told you, is a bad thing to say, but, he he he, but seriously, I am glad you could get it working now. your backup will let you to recover any software you like.

It happens, lucky for me I usually keep things to a bare minimum so besides a config file for atmosphere there's nothing else to recover

 

[Mirai101]

Edited: Managed to get sys-clk running eventually.

 

[phaserwolf]

does anyone have a copy of the config file? I accidently deleted it when trying to change the hotkey, and now it seems I can't open tesla at all.

 

[linuxares]

does anyone have a copy of the config file? I accidently deleted it when trying to change the hotkey, and now it seems I can't open tesla at all.

Check inside "420000000007E51A" of atmosphere/contents and see if config is there

 

[impeeza]

does anyone have a copy of the config file? I accidently deleted it when trying to change the hotkey, and now it seems I can't open tesla at all.

You can create it by hand
Look into
https://gbatemp.net/threads/tesla-the-nintendo-switch-overlay-menu.557362/post-10138721