RPI Overscran and Touch Screen Enabling

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I’ve installed the RasPlex player on the Rpi2 with with the 7 inch touchscreen display. My goal is to make a dedicated portable player that has sync capability for long trips when not connected to the interweb.

Adding “display_default_lcd=1” to the config.txt enables the display. However, the touch isn’t working and the plex overlay doesn’t resize to fit the screen.

Are there any other configuration changes that can be made to enable touch and is there a feature available similar to the FireTV to set the size of the plex app?

Since I have a Plex server, I’d rather stick with Plex for the solution…

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You can change the screen in Preferences, just select the correct resolution, it will apply the configuration change ask ask for confirmation.

No support for Touch at the moment, or sync, but you could always file a feature request on GitHub.

Regards

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Thanks NedTheNerd! I can’t even see the settings/preferences button since the UI is over-sized. I can play videos and they scale to the screen size but the UI, won’t. Additionally, the PHT has a configuration file (plexmediaplayer.conf) for the UI on other devices, but none exists for the PI.

Also, there is limited touch support adding the DT config setting dtoverlay=rpi-ft5406.

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PHT has no such config file, the one you mention (plexmediaplayer.conf) is exclusive to the new Plex Media Player.

Have you tried using hdmi_cvt?

See here https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/config-txt.md

Regards

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PS Would suggest changing your user name on the forums so it’s not your email address.

Regards

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There is no need now, there was an update to the embedded image that fixed the display issue I was having and the touch works with the DT overlay update to the config file. I was also able to get to the plexmediaplayer.conf file using putty after logging in, but wasn’t necessary after the update. I now have a portable Plex player. Thanks again Ned.

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If you don’t mind me asking what did you do exactly to get touch to work.

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@aAvionicsDevilDog
I see you said that you have this working now. What exactly did you edit and the settings you used for the 7" Pi Touch display? I’m a bit confused in NedtheNerd and your conversation.
From what I read you put in “dtoverlay=rpi-ft5406” in the config.txt. Now was that addition to the file, or did you replace the default setting one?

I also have this in a Piromoni case and with the newer build updates, makes the screen 180° off. In typical Raspbian I would make a lcd_display=2 to rotate. Would this also go in the same area in the config.txt?

Thanks for any help you can offer.