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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Patreon https://www.patreon.com/werwolv


Thanks a lot and have fun using and extending it

 

[impeeza]

Is tesla working for 16.0.2? (i know it just came out but i wanted to use it and it isn't working for me. Doesn't pop up)

tesla works fine since 16.0.0 you need to update the overlays, almost all needs to be build using latest teslalibs to avoid docked crash.

 

[masagrator]

16.0.2 did not update anything affecting any homebrew that is not using online components. If it's using online components, then idk

 

[Arab]

This are homebrew build with latest Libnx from ELY3M (https://github.com/ELY3M/libnx.git) and libtesla, using MinGW on Windows:

Tesla Menu
File: ovlmenu_1_2_1-97b9677.zip
Repo: https://github.com/WerWolv/Tesla-Menu

InfoNX
File: InfoNX-ovl_v1.0.1-3d4c11df.zip
Repo: https://github.com/renA21/InfoNX/

DNS-MITM_Manager
File: DNS-MITM_Manager_0_2_0-2023_04_05-0475e9c7.zip
Repo: https://github.com/znxDomain/DNS-MITM_Manager

EdizonOverlay
File: EdiZon-Overlay_1_0_5-e6442c0f.zip
Repo: https://github.com/proferabg/EdiZon-Overlay

Emuiibo (Overlay Only)
File: emuiibo_0_6_5-c321f744.zip
Repo: https://github.com/XorTroll/emuiibo

ldn_mitm (Full)
File: ldn_mitm_1_15_0-61c44713.zip
Repo: https://github.com/spacemeowx2/ldn_mitm

OvlSysmodules
File: ovlSysmodules_1_3_1-9b114b3c.zip
Repo: https://github.com/WerWolv/ovl-sysmodules

QuickNTP
File: QuickNTP_1.2.7-11b98973.zip
Repo: https://github.com/nedex/QuickNTP

Status-Monitor-Overlay
File: Status-Monitor-Overlay_0_8_1-08c2b310.zip
Repo: https://github.com/masagrator/Status-Monitor-Overlay

Studious-Pancake
File: Studious-Pancake_0.4.1-f7f3a696.zip
Repo: https://github.com/HookedBehemoth/studious-pancake


OPTIONAL:
TESLA BUILD WITH LATESTS LIBNX, IF YOUR TESLA SYSMODULE IS WORKING FINE YOU DON'T NEED THIS:

TESLA
File: nx-ovlloader_1_0_6-13295c6d.zip
Repo: https://github.com/WerWolv/nx-ovlloader

Hope this help so many of us.

I'm not at home.


I've added them to this pack...

https://www.mediafire.com/file/whw5gdwwt66cat3/PacOS.rar/file

ive tried to add these two and it just doesn't work with any button combo. Nothing is popping up

 

[MasterJ360]

Only thing I need is the auto ftp everything else is working for me

 

[impeeza]

ive tried to add these two and it just doesn't work with any button combo. Nothing is popping up

review you SD:/CONFIG/TESLA/config.ini file and look for

[tesla]
key_combo=L+ZL+R+ZR


that's your cobination.

Post automatically merged: Apr 19, 2023

Only thing I need is the auto ftp everything else is working for me

you can use https://github.com/cathery/sys-ftpd-light/releases is a sysmodule which always is running on the background and allows you to access your SD card via FTP.

 

[Arab]

review you SD:/CONFIG/TESLA/config.ini file and look for

[tesla]
key_combo=L+ZL+R+ZR


that's your cobination.

Post automatically merged: Apr 19, 2023

you can use https://github.com/cathery/sys-ftpd-light/releases is a sysmodule which always is running on the background and allows you to access your SD card via FTP.

tried it and it doesn't work. Its in the files under atmosphere/config/tesla right? is there anything else that could be blocking it?

 

[masagrator]

tried it and it doesn't work. Its in the files under atmosphere/config/tesla right?

no, read their post again

 

[impeeza]

tried it and it doesn't work. Its in the files under atmosphere/config/tesla right? is there anything else that could be blocking it?

No sir, SD:/config/tesla/config.ini

SD:/atmosphere/config folder is only for Atmosphère setup

 

[dsrules]

tried it and it doesn't work. Its in the files under atmosphere/config/tesla right? is there anything else that could be blocking it?

if you never set any config file before then check post #1,456

 

[sorabora]

almost all needs to be build using latest teslalibs to avoid docked crash

Has this happened yet?

Sorry if it's been asked before. I'm a bit confused at this point.

 

[impeeza]

Has this happened yet?

Sorry if it's been asked before. I'm a bit confused at this point.

yes is on the post of the last page.

Post automatically merged: Apr 19, 2023

if you never set any config file before then check post #1,456

you mean:
https://gbatemp.net/threads/tesla-the-nintendo-switch-overlay-menu.557362/post-10130027

 

[scroeffie1984]

i updated my firmware and cfw now overlay sysclock wont work ,so i updated the sysclock to 1.3
and all the other apps on page 1 but when i press L dpad down and right stick nothing happens when i go to album i can see sys clk manager 1.0.3 sys clk editor 2.0.1

what am i doing wrong

 

[impeeza]

is not L button is R button.

 

[Zephir1991]

is not L button is R button.

It's L for me too. Just tested it.

 

[impeeza]

Ok, I got confused because on default Atmosphère L button will disable RomFS substitution and R button replace the next app with HBL.

 

[IronyIsGood]

Nevermind that guys it sounds like he's not even using the shoulder buttons.
edit: just in case "shoulder button" doesn't translate well for you, another way to describe them would be "top edge" buttons or the buttons closest to the trigger buttons.

 

[felonius]

@WerWolv anyone knows how to display some Chinese characters properly in overlay?

 

[dsrules]

@WerWolv anyone knows how to display some Chinese characters properly in overlay?

probably need an edizon overlay that supports chinese, try grab it from some chinese sites

 

[felonius]

probably need an edizon overlay that supports chinese, try grab it from some chinese sites

wondering if anyone reading this has it.

 

[dsrules]

wondering if anyone reading this has it.

tekqart has it if you are a member of the old 91wii site