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TOLDOTECHNIK / buildroot-webkit

Buildroot WebKit fullscreen browser for Raspberry Pi. Suitable for HTML 5 user interfaces or digital signage / kiosk installations. It also can be used as a fullscreen video loop player. Ready to use RPi Zero/W and RPi 3 B SD card images are available.
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Rotate display #54

Closed invisiblestupid closed 10 months ago

invisiblestupid commented 1 year ago

This app is a dream come true for me. All the others I've found bog down on the Pi Zero. It works great with Google Slides as my presentation tool. However, Is there a way to rotate the display so that it will run in portrait mode? I can rotate the content on the slides...it's just a little harder to maintain the content. I'm sure I look funny tilting my head like that to see the content. :)

Also, in one application, I'm not going to have wifi available. I know I can create a video of the presentation but that's a big cumbersome too. If you're still working on this project at all, I'd love to see an image.txt or some such to point to a folder of images to loop through for a pre-determined length per image.

Even if you don't get to it, this is an amazing little tool and will be using it in my store.

TOLDOTECHNIK commented 1 year ago

For rotating the screen you just need to edit config.txt in /boot folder. Try adding display_rotate=1 or display_rotate=3.

We do not provide an image slider. There are several tools available that will create a slideshow video from static images. Here's an example: https://www.bannerbear.com/blog/how-to-create-a-slideshow-from-images-with-ffmpeg/ You can then play videos with the built-in omxplayer in loop mode.

invisiblestupid commented 1 year ago

Thanks! The rotation trick worked.

I think I'll just stick with a video and be done with it. Thanks!

TOLDOTECHNIK commented 10 months ago

Closing due to no activity.