Infrared Touch Frame - rotate?

peemoeller

Hi there! I have my MagicMirror up and running in portrait mode and works well. I have just added a 42" Infrared Touch Frame Overlay but the touch cursor moves the wrong direction (ie. the touch cursor stuck to landscape)
How does one calibrate the touch cursor to portrait mode? I slide my finger up the mirror and the cursor moves right ~ lol.

I have installed xinput but not sure how or where to adjust the settings.

Any help appreciated!

yawns

Did you install xinput_calibrator?
https://github.com/tias/xinput_calibrator/

peemoeller

@yawns Hello, yes and just finished running the xinput touch calibrator program under preferences (it had me touch the 4 red crosses). No issues there but I don’t know how or where to change the touch programming to “portrait” mode. I slide my finger up the monitor and the curser moves left.
Would you have any instructions? Thanks again!

sdetweil

@peemoeller see here
https://askubuntu.com/questions/368317/rotate-touch-input-with-touchscreen-and-or-touchpad

peemoeller

@sdetweil Awesome thanks!

In his website link I created the portrait.sh file but don’t wuite understand this 2nd part in his instructions:
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“Afterwards, I also made launchers to automatically run each shell script when I tapped on them (this is possible in Xubuntu, Ubuntu MATE, and many other Ubuntu flavours). To do so, go to your panel, right-click, click on “add to panel” (or equivalent, for all these subsequent commands, too), create a custom application launcher. For portrait’s launcher, put in this command:

sh /home/username/Scripts/portrait”
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Are you able to elaborate? I am somewhat new to this :)
Appreciate the guidance!
~ Eric.

sdetweil

@peemoeller he made apps(launcher) in the ubuntu graphical interface. So he could switch orientations just from a menu.

If u are doing just once, u won’t need that.

But he may have left out a step.
From the command shell, where your little script is located, do

chmod +x portrait.sh

To make the script executable

peemoeller

@sdetweil That worked! Nice :)
In Terminal I entered: chmod +x portrait.sh
Then executed the portrait.sh file I made
and the touch IR is now set to portrait.

So happy, thanks for your help buddy!

I’ve re-ran the “Calibrate Touchscreen” in Preferences again too. It reads:

< Calibrating standard Xorg driver “Multi touch overlay device” current calibration values: min_x=0, max_x=65535 and min_y=0, max_y=65535
If these values are estimating wrong, either supply it manually with the - -precalib option, or run the ‘get_precalib.sh’ script to automatically get it (through HAL). >

I find the touch curser doesn’t reach the the edges of my monitor. Example I can’t simply click on the Raspberry Icon in the corner. The curser is diaginally 2 inches away?

Where can I set or adjust this? Any thoughts?

Fun!