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!


Obligatory Donation links

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


Thanks a lot and have fun using and extending it

 

[binkinator]

If only this replaced the quick setting menu, might even be able to squeeze out a little more memory from it!

Would be neat to pull up Tesla using a long-press of the home-button.

Seems like there was some work a long time ago to replace quick menu with an app called Layoff https://github.com/crc-32/layoff

All the functions of quick launch could be added as a module in Tesla so no functionality would even be lost.

Were there fundamental issues that prevented Tesla from being embedded in Layoff?

 

[TomSwitch]

Would be neat to pull up Tesla using a long-press of the home-button.

Seems like there was some work a long time ago to replace quick menu with an app called Layoff https://github.com/crc-32/layoff

All the functions of quick launch could be added as a module in Tesla so no functionality would even be lost.

Were there fundamental issues that prevented Tesla from being embedded in Layoff?

Had tesla been a replacement of quick menu you will be terrified when a new version of HOS get released for WerWolv may not want to update it for you. As it is it just worked.
If you use dmnt from previous atmosphere release you are likely to crash atmosphere even if dmnt's source has not change, that is the case when it is tightly coupled.

 

[binkinator]

Had tesla been a replacement of quick menu you will be terrified when a new version of HOS get released

Indeed!

for WerWolv may not want to update it for you. As it is it just worked.
If you use dmnt from previous atmosphere release you are likely to crash atmosphere even if dmnt's source has not change, that is the case when it is tightly coupled.

Totally makes sense to avoid tight couplings with upstream. I withdraw the question outright.

 

[TomSwitch]

Indeed!

Totally makes sense to avoid tight couplings with upstream. I withdraw the question outright.

If SciresM were to create a overlay system that would be wonderful. Some kind of plug in or hook for quick menu would totally kick ass.

 

[KenzieCool]

WerWolv, the savior of Switch Mods

 

[impeeza]

@WerWolv buddy the new release of ovlmenu.ovl states "This is just a small release to sort overlays according to their file name on disk." I wonder if actually is case sensitive? thanks a lot.

 

[SodaSoba]

Finally some form of module sorting thanks for this release!

 

[Psd99]

ok so I extracted both the nx overload and tesla menu to the root my of memory card
but whenever I try to launch the tesla menu nothing happens

what could be the problem? sounds strange but dpaddown is that just the right hand side joystick I got to press it in and push it down while holding down L?

did that nothing worked

 

[masagrator]

ok so I extracted both the nx overload and tesla menu to the root my of memory card
but whenever I try to launch the tesla menu nothing happens

what could be the problem? sounds strange but dpaddown is that just the right hand side joystick I got to press it in and push it down while holding down L?

did that nothing worked

You press L + D-pad down + Right Stick to inside. D-pad is on left side under stick

 

[Psd99]

You press L + D-pad down + Right Stick to inside. D-pad is on left side under stick

ok i got that

I realised that d pad down is actually on the left hand side

when I press that I see:

Tesla on the top left hand side and underneath tri player

nothing else?

 

[masagrator]

ok i got that

I realised that d pad down is actually on the left hand side

when I press that I see:

Tesla on the top left hand side and underneath tri player

nothing else?

Yup. This is it.

 

[Psd99]

Yup. This is it.

ok so to give u some context........... im having trouble to load mission control to get one of my other controllers to work

someone said download tesla and see if the module is running
how do I do that now?

 

[BaamAlex]

how do I do that now?

Mission Control isn't a Tesla module. This module runs in the background

You can "see" it when you successfully pair a non-nintendo bluetooth controller. Dualsense for example.

 

[masagrator]

What you probably want is an overlay called "Sysmodules" which is not an integral part of Tesla.
It shows running sysmodules that have correct file put into folders, many sysmodules have such one already inside their respective folders.

https://gbatemp.net/threads/ovl-sysmodules-a-tesla-overlay-to-toggle-sysmodules.557455/

 

[iceman2485]

Did firmware 15.0 break this? After updating I saw the menu once and it just disappears.

 

[wiitendo84]

Did firmware 15.0 break this? After updating I saw the menu once and it just disappears.

I believe so. Did the same thing to me as well

 

[impeeza]

https://gbatemp.net/threads/updated-edizon-overlay-added-feature.603725/

 

[Psd99]

Note to self and everyone else:
DO NOT Update

 

[BaamAlex]

Note to self and everyone else:
DO NOT Update

Why?

 

[impeeza]

because so many homebrew has to be updated yet, even the sigpatches aren't full tested. Atmosphère is pre relase so is not stable yet, etc.