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: https://download.werwolv.net/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

 

[binkinator]

somehow its not working for me, I've downloaded all the files needed but Tesla menu doesnt show up.

It’s definitely working on HOS 14.0.0 With AMS 1.3.0. Did you have it working before the upgrade?

 

[lvlann]

works perfectly in 14.0

Thats amazing. thanks for your comment.
I'm still looking for someone who can help out with this issue please.

 

[lvlann]

It’s definitely working. Did you have it working before the upgrade?

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i did have it working before the update. after the update, not so much lol

 

[binkinator]

i did have it working before the update. after the update, not so much lol

Lets backup everything Tesla related into a bak directory and start clean.

 

[lvlann]

Lets backup everything Tesla related into a bak directory and start clean.

is it ok if I dm you?

 

[lvlann]

Lets backup everything Tesla related into a bak directory and start clean.

I just deleted the contents folder and dropped nx-ovlloader atmosphere folder in. it showed up now. thanks

 

[binkinator]

I just deleted the contents folder and dropped nx-ovlloader atmosphere folder in. it showed up now. thanks

That’s the ticket. Nice job!

 

[FAKEdemicBioPYSCHONANOWAR]

Can we get an update to this homebrew?

 

[burhansalih]

Can we get an update to this homebrew?

Why do you need an update if it works?

 

[binkinator]

Can we get an update to this homebrew?

The issue above was OTHER sysmodules funking things up. Tesla stack works great as is.

 

[FAKEdemicBioPYSCHONANOWAR]

The issue above was OTHER sysmodules funking things up. Tesla stack works great as is.

Not what I heard. lots of people having issues with tesla because it is not being maintained.

 

[hippy dave]

Not what I heard. lots of people having issues with tesla because it is not being maintained.

Not everything you hear is true.

 

[binkinator]

Not what I heard. lots of people having issues with tesla because it is not being maintained.

Interesting. I’ve done nothing special. I run a bunch of other mods (including the recently tweaked fizeau and mission-control that both initially had issues.) What has your experience been like?

edit: as an afterthought I wondered if some folks might have been using TomVita’s Breeze on Top version so I just YOLOd that shit on my switch. Now I have the full Breeze experience…but still can‘t get Tesla to fail.

 

[Nakamichi]

is it possible to change the hotkey-combo to open the tesla overlay?

 

[binkinator]

is it possible to change the hotkey-combo to open the tesla overlay?

https://gbatemp.net/threads/tesla-menu-hotkey-suggestion-holding-home-button.609212/#post-9774060

 

[FAKEdemicBioPYSCHONANOWAR]

Not everything you hear is true.

They say in homebrew discord channel the atmosphere crash code is this title id of tesla often soo....but ye who knows

 

[binkinator]

They say in homebrew discord channel the atmosphere crash code is this title id of tesla often soo....but ye who knows

Maybe it comes from people deleting /atmosphere/contents/ in order to fix other issues and borking up Tesla in the process.
https://github.com/WerWolv/Tesla-Menu/issues/44?

My Tesla is still good on 14.1.0/1.3.1 and I can’t live without fastCFWswitch overlay!

Firmware upgrades are hard...Mmmkay?

 

[TomSwitch]

Maybe it comes from people deleting /atmosphere/contents/ in order to fix other issues and borking up Tesla in the process.
https://github.com/WerWolv/Tesla-Menu/issues/44?

My Tesla is still good on 14.1.0/1.3.1 and I can’t live without fastCFWswitch overlay!

Firmware upgrades are hard...Mmmkay?

There is always a small risk, the question of risk reward simply don't make sense for most people to update. But for some reason a group of people like to update though they have no idea of the benefit other than that euphoria of having the latest.

Hear someone complaining that the temperature display was broken. I took a look and indeed it is broken for me too. ( I don't care about the feature, I have two overlay that display temperature and both show 0 for cpu and motherboard temperature )

I also hear that tesla crash more often ( I only did a very quick peek and it didn't crash on me )

 

[binkinator]

There is always a small risk, the question of risk reward simply don't make sense for most people to update. But for some reason a group of people like to update though they have no idea of the benefit other than that euphoria of having the latest.

All for Groups, a feature that could have been really cool but kinda sucks due to the actual implementation.

Hear someone complaining that the temperature display was broken. I took a look and indeed it is broken for me too. ( I don't care about the feature, I have two overlay that display temperature and both show 0 for cpu and motherboard temperature )

Ninty removed decimal temp in 14.0.0+
https://github.com/masagrator/Status-Monitor-Overlay/releases/tag/0.6.4

I also hear that tesla crash more often ( I only did a very quick peek and it didn't crash on me )

 

[TomSwitch]

All for Groups, a feature that could have been really cool but kinda sucks due to the actual implementation.

Ninty removed decimal temp in 14.0.0+
https://github.com/masagrator/Status-Monitor-Overlay/releases/tag/0.6.4

Good to know that masagrator is watching closely. Overclock-er would be pleased that nothing else is broken other than loosing decimal in temperature.