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    At my Wits end! Overscan/Underscan. Nothing changes

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    • evroomE Offline
      evroom
      last edited by

      @JonoGee

      See these URLs for details, if not known already:
      https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/hdmi-config.md
      https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/config-txt/video.md

      Can you try this ?

      $ tvservice -m CEA
      $ tvservice -m DMT
      

      This will give you the hdmi_group that can be used and the preferred hdmi_mode.

      hdmi_group=1
      hdmi_mode=16
      

      This means CEA 1080p @60Hz.

      And what happens when you comment out disable_overscan and the overscan settings ?

      MagicMirror version: 2.30.0
      Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.5 (8 GB RAM)
      Raspbian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)

      Test environment:
      MagicMirror version: v2.30.0
      Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Plus Rev 1.3 (1 GB RAM)
      Raspbian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)

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      • J Offline
        JonoGee @evroom
        last edited by

        @evroom
        Hi buddy,
        I tried disabling out all overscan settings etc. It didn’t make the slightest change, neither did…

        hdmi_group=1
        hdmi_mode=16
        

        I am not sure where i should be putting…

        $ tvservice -m CEA
        $ tvservice -m DMT
        

        I checked out those links and nothing I do at all makes any change whatsoever. I see no adjustment or anything. I’d be happy if i did then i could keep adjusting, rebooting, and re-adjust accordingly until it was right.

        THankyou for your time anyway trying to help me sort this. I really appreciate it.
        BR

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        • evroomE Offline
          evroom
          last edited by

          @JonoGee said in At my Wits end! Overscan/Underscan. Nothing changes:

          I am not sure where i should be putting…

          They are not config entries.
          Just execute those commands from the command-line.

          The config file entries in your first post, are they yours or just an example ?

          Let’s start with the tvservice commands.
          Please post the output, then we take it from there.

          $ tvservice -m CEA
          $ tvservice -m DMT
          $ tvservice -s
          

          Not an expert on the topic, but who knows we straighten this out together :-)

          MagicMirror version: 2.30.0
          Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.5 (8 GB RAM)
          Raspbian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)

          Test environment:
          MagicMirror version: v2.30.0
          Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Plus Rev 1.3 (1 GB RAM)
          Raspbian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)

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          • cirdanC Offline
            cirdan
            last edited by

            Sometimes you can fix/set overscan in the menu of the monitor, may be this helps?

            Modules MMM-rainfc, MMM-bustimes, MMM-Harmony, MMM-Rijks

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            • J Offline
              JonoGee @cirdan
              last edited by

              @cirdan It was displaying fine with a black border actually during the Raspi setup and I ticked something during setup and its been like this since.

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                JonoGee
                last edited by

                Any other device, PC, DVD Player, PS4, what ever i plug it its fine. Raspi homepage. spilling outside screen area.

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                • evroomE Offline
                  evroom
                  last edited by

                  @JonoGee

                  Did you ever touch the /boot/config.txtfile ?
                  Or only did the config using $ sudo raspi-config or via the GUI ?
                  It can be you selected Overscan there.

                  Can you also show the output of this command ?

                  $ cat /boot/config.txt | grep -v '^#' | egrep 'overscan|framebuffer|hdmi|dtoverlay'
                  

                  MagicMirror version: 2.30.0
                  Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.5 (8 GB RAM)
                  Raspbian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)

                  Test environment:
                  MagicMirror version: v2.30.0
                  Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Plus Rev 1.3 (1 GB RAM)
                  Raspbian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)

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