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Display Monkey digital signage solution
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Rotate the Display on Server Side? #152

Open unityco opened 4 years ago

unityco commented 4 years ago

Hi there,

I want to use DisplayMonkey on a vertically hung TV. Unfortunately, the TV doesn't support "portrait" settings. Is there any way to manage this in the Display Manager?

Thanks!

mmckinney282 commented 4 years ago

We are looking for something similar. We have a Vizio D-Series tv (basic), and an Amazon Firestick with Silk browser to display with. The TV doesn't have a setting to switch to portrait, and any apps for firestick don't actually rotate the output, just alters the w x h and causes image skewing. If there was a way in displaymonkey to either have a setting at the canvas or display level to alter orientation, that seems the best solution. At this point I might have to look at a raspberry pi with windows 10 or Raspbian to control orientation, not un-doable, just over kill.

unityco commented 4 years ago

I did discover this HTML tool: https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css3_pr_transform.asp Unfortunately, I'm not a coder so I'm hard pressed to figure it out myself. I'm sure it's possible to apply it within the DM code, but...

mmckinney282 commented 4 years ago

We did go with a raspberry pi for the display that needed to be in portrait. Was fairly simple with a /boot/config.txt edit for display_rotate=1. At that point we just built a canvas to be 1080 x 1920 and all looks good.