Hi
have anybody make the Adafruits 2.8" TFT touchscreen to work with RasPlex and OpenELEC?
I doubt it. Most people use RasPlex with a TV set.
Personally I see very little point in watching movies or TV shows on a 2.8" screen.
Even my phone has a larger screen than that.
In any case it would be impossible to use such a screen without major changes to the source code, since PHT is designed for control by keyboard or remote controllers, not by touch screen input, and the video output would need very special drivers to feed that screen, as well as an abnormal rescaling routine to display anything useful in so low resolution (4:3 320x240 I believe. So just one quarter of non-widescreen 480p).
I can understand that it would be a neat experiment, from a hobbyist point of view.
But adapting RasPlex this way has absolutely no practical application, and will not be done as part of the official project.
Best regards: dlanor
Maybe on an audio only setup.
Perhaps fitted inside a standard hifi showing at the top.
For local use.
hmmmmm
The reason I was investigating this was to build a multi-room Plex setup, with a Raspberry Pi running RasPlex and little touch screen that could be wall mounted in various rooms, mainly to stream audio to connected speakers. For most rooms, I'm not interested in it running video, as i would consider it no different to a light switch, allowing someone to control the music. It might work in a kitchen however, as a little video screen on the wall.
It's possible to build a headless version that can be controlled using the ios app, but a little touch screen on the wall of each room would be a nice feature, as you can interact with it directly without having to whip a phone out.
The biggest drawback would be the UI, which would ideally require something less fiddly to control such as the mobile UI, rather than the sort of UI you would expect to see on a large TV.
@one_punch_pete:
The UI you want would require considerable redesign of the program in directions other than that of the official PHT project.
As such your request falls outside of the scope of the RasPlex project, which is purely a PHT port to the RPi platform.
Best regards: dlanor
For that application you might even want to consider old phones or tablest. I see that you can now buy 7" Android tablets for less than $100 - perhaps those, or obsolete Android phones mounted on the wall would give you even more functionality for not much more cost and a lot less futzing around.
I have this screen and use it on a few rasppi projects. There is GPIO drivers that are needed that would need to be compiled on openelec. Before the raspbian wheezy release I did this and it took 20 hours to complete (with 4 tries)... also as mention, the lack of mouse support on PHT makes it nearly impossible functionality wise.
I have gone down the same path with my "smarthome" using raspberry pi's and found that a used IPAD1/2 or Andriono device is a better investment than a the pi for this solution.
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