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LOL! I'm definitely a believer in the philosophy "go big or go home!".

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Hi all. I modified a couple of my 3D printed enclosures for MiSTer to incorporate 5" HDMI screens powered by the Pi Zero 2 W and wanted to share a few pics. Normally my cases have a 3" display powered by an Uno board and running TTY2TFT software. I must say that these new larger displays are really a sight to behold. The extra real estate...

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For anyone else who has this issue I ended up getting a solution from a user on Discord. You have to disable direct video on the menu by adding the blurb below to the .ini file. A nice and easy fix.

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[menu]
direct_video=0

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Hi all. I've been playing around with the direct video "DV1" mode on the RT4K to my LG CX TV and it seems to work perfectly on the cores I've tested. The strange thing is that the menu core originally pulls up centered, but then almost immediately gets pushed to the left side of the screen with some garbled video to the right of it. I tho...

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I can't believe you were able to get those changes to the screensaver in so quickly. Absolute perfection. Bravo!

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Many thanks to RealLarry for all his hard work on this project and for indulging my OCD. He is a wizard with getting these little displays to do their magic! My MiSTer setup and gaming experience are so much better off for it.

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Hope you don't mind me posting this (i'm a slow learner and have re-read this exciting thread many times but still struggling to get my head around it although I can sense it has great potential). How does Groovy Mister differ from Mister Cast? Am I right in saying (and this may not the right phrase) Mister Cast would not be 'Pixel Perfect'? MiSTe...

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Hope you don't mind me posting this (i'm a slow learner and have re-read this exciting thread many times but still struggling to get my head around it although I can sense it has great potential). How does Groovy Mister differ from Mister Cast? Am I right in saying (and this may not the right phrase) Mister Cast would not be 'Pixel Perfect'? MiSTe...

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Too bad to hear that. Looks like that this display (HDMI if I remember correctly) is taking a long time to look for a connected device and to switch 'em accordingly. Yeah that could be the case. My Zero 2W draws 0.26A when idle and 0.4A for a Second when it is displaying a new picture (when rotating between screensavers). Just as a hint. Good to k...

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I get mixed results with the splash screen on both devices. Sometime it is displayed in between bootup messages, although very briefly. Other times it does not show up at all. Could you please edit /boot/cmdline.txt (resp. /boot/firmware/config.txt), change loglevel=1 to loglevel=0 and retry? I did this with my 3A+ (which has this quirks since yes...

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I wouldn't expect a serial<->USB connection to help with the boot performance. It would just give an alternative to using WiFi for communication to avoid poor signal issues and to give users who don't have their setups connected to the internet another option for using tty2rpi. Do you think a hardwired connection might actually be faster to commun...

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Very much appreciated. :D It does seem that the RPi has a lot of stuff to do when it boots. If a "hibernate" function isn't possible I wonder if there is some way to modify RPi OS to only do certain tasks necessary for tty2rpi at bootup in order to at least make the process faster? I did a quick Google search and stumbled on this article...

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Do you boot your Pi every time you boot your MiSTer or does it stay on constantly and only get rebooted periodically? I was wondering if there might be a way to keep the Pi on constantly and just sleep the display when MiSTer powers off to save electricity. This would skip the booting process and have the display ready to go when MiSTer is powered...

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It's interesting that you are having some issues with the splash screen today. The function has not been consistent with either of my Pis. Sometimes it shows up for some seconds. Other times it just flashes briefly. And most of the time it does not show up at all. I'll have an eye on this. Strange...is working great for some days on both displays,...

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Any idea about the screen flashing blue during boot by chance? Not really. My HDMI Marquee display is turning to black and while the splash screen was working there for some days, today it is showing the splash screen for a glimpse, is turning to black and the display re-detect "HDMI". Dunno whats going on and if it's the RPi or the disp...

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I made the configurations you suggested in the cmdline.txt file and I'm still not getting the splash screen to show up. I do see a brief darkening of the display as the Pi is booting up. Is it possible the 3B+ and Zero 2 W boot fast enough that there is no time for the graphic to appear? They both are fast enough. I'm using a 3A+ with a Marquee si...

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I updated both my RPi 3B+ and my Pi Zero 2 W this morning. I get mixed results with the splash screen on both devices. Sometime it is displayed in between bootup messages, although very briefly. Other times it does not show up at all. And in some cases the tty2rpi-startup.png file ends up getting corrupted and has 0 bytes. Is this something differ...

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I updated both my RPi 3B+ and my Pi Zero 2 W this morning. I get mixed results with the splash screen on both devices. Sometime it is displayed in between bootup messages, although very briefly. Other times it does not show up at all. And in some cases the tty2rpi-startup.png file ends up getting corrupted and has 0 bytes. Is this something differe...

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Just tested, but it's working here. tty2rpi.png is hardcoded for now but 000-notavail.png, 000-clock.png and all its numbers are displayed when placed and defined in TTY2RPIPICS="${HOME}/tty2rpi-mypics" There may be be new bug I encountered with 000-notavail.png : It is getting displayed only one time, on the next "not found" t...

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Hey I ran the update script this morning and as expected it overwrote the images in the tty2rpi-pics directory. I had placed some custom graphics there (000-notavail.png and tty2rpi.png) because the new directory I created for these files ( tty2rpi-mypics ) does not get looked at by the program even though I have the line TTY2RPIPICS="${HOME}...

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Would be cool if this board supported a power toggle on the Reset button like the new MiSTer Add Ons IO boards. Not sure what kind of extra circuitry that requires though.

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Sounds like an HDMI display is the most ideal for this project. I will have to keep exploring other options that I might be able to use in my boxes. Perhaps I can increase the height of the box to accommodate for the port + adapter to connect the display to the Pi. It depends imho. HDMI has the advantage that it "just works", DPI and DSI...

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Not I'm aware off. Use a DPI or DSI display if HDMI isn't an option. They are assembled in the same way (plug'n'play). It looks like the DPI displays connect to the Pi via the 40 pin GPIO connector according to this document. Is that correct? If so, are those screens capable of using this "Plymouth" function you mentioned to display an i...

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Are there displays that connect via the GPIO pins that don't use the framebuffer? I have some space constraints in my cases that make it challenging to use the HDMI port on most displays. Not I'm aware off. Use a DPI or DSI display if HDMI isn't an option. They are assembled in the same way (plug'n'play). It looks like the DPI displays connect to ...

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By the way is it possible to have an image displayed as the Raspberry Pi is booting instead of viewing all the messages? That's definitely something I enjoy about tty2tft. I get a graphic right as MiSTer is powered on. Yes, this is called "plymouth" and is disabled for now. While this working great on a PC I had some hurdles to get it wo...

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Thanks for looking into this. Hopefully there is a way to get it to work. I've got plenty of time to return it to Amazon if it isn't compatible. However, I ordered a similar non-touch display off AliExpress that I'll be stuck with either way. LOL! I don't need or really want the touch function. I just want the display to show the core/game artwork...

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I'm still investigating but had no luck 'til now. This is what my "found" display is looking like. Not exact the same but I'm sure that is technically the same . yours.jpg And that seems to be the pity. Seems like these very cheap ones are using a XPT2046 and MPI3501 controller they warn against using them (have a look at the chapter bel...

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Here are the details from my log: Feb 22 08:17:04 raspberrypi kernel: fbtft: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned. Feb 22 08:17:04 raspberrypi kernel: fb_ili9486: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned. Feb 22 08:17:04 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Mounted proc-sys-...

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I think I'm getting close. The last step I need to do according to config.txt.example is to "Enable fbcp-ili9341 in /home/tty2rpi/.bash_profile". I found the file in MC and went to edit it. There is only one line that is commented out. Do I just need to remove the hashtag on that line or is there something else that needs to be done? By ...

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I think I'm getting close. The last step I need to do according to config.txt.example is to "Enable fbcp-ili9341 in /home/tty2rpi/.bash_profile". I found the file in MC and went to edit it. There is only one line that is commented out. Do I just need to remove the hashtag on that line or is there something else that needs to be done? By t...

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