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A New Chapter for MagicMirror: The Community Takes the Lead
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Tilting the display by a couple of degrees to make it straight

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    alborzs
    last edited by Jun 6, 2019, 7:40 PM

    Hi,
    I have managed to install the display behind my mirror a bit tilted. It is off by a couple of degrees only, but it still shows.
    Is there anyway to tilt the whole interface a couple of degrees?

    I have already searched quite a bit of the display of the raspberry pie can be tilted but it I have not found a solution, so I am really hoping that the MM interface can be tilted! The display is already glued so that is difficult to change now.

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      broberg Project Sponsor @alborzs
      last edited by Jun 7, 2019, 6:29 AM

      @alborzs it probably is possible, but it will look terrible, if not blurry it will create artifacts.

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        joela85
        last edited by joela85 Jun 7, 2019, 6:54 AM Jun 7, 2019, 6:54 AM

        I think your best bet is do remount your display to be square. As @broberg said, if you can do it, it won’t look very good due to the nature of the line up of the pixels. Small text will probably be un-readable.

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          evroom
          last edited by Jun 7, 2019, 7:55 AM

          @alborzs
          I rotated my screen from landscape to portrait using custom.css.
          Cannot find the topic in this forum, but this is the body in my custom.css file:

          body {
            margin: 0;
            position: absolute;
            transform: rotate(-90deg);
            transform-origin: top left;
            width: 100vh;
            height: 100vw;
          
            object-fit: cover;
            top: 100vh;
                  visibility: visible;
           }
          

          Perhaps you give it a try with different degrees in the rotate() parameter.

          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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            bhepler Module Developer
            last edited by Jun 7, 2019, 12:09 PM

            This reminds me of a joke.

            Q: How many software engineers does it take to change a light bulb?
            A: None. It’s a hardware problem.
            Q: How many hardware engineers does it take to change a light bulb?
            A: None. Just tell the software engineers to code around it.

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              alborzs
              last edited by Jun 7, 2019, 7:39 PM

              @bhepler :)
              @evroom Thanks, I will give that a try. It is just such a beautiful installation I don’t wanna mess with it now. All the cable management, everything is perfect. I curse myself for mounting the display every time I am in front of the mirror

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                broberg Project Sponsor
                last edited by broberg Jun 7, 2019, 8:16 PM Jun 7, 2019, 8:13 PM

                You know what, @evroom s solution might just work.

                Tried it and it isn’t half bad, it gets blurry, but not overly so. (disclaimer, tried this on a 24" 1440p display)

                body {
                transform: rotate(0.2deg);
                transform-origin: top left;
                }
                
                
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                  alborzs
                  last edited by Jun 8, 2019, 8:30 AM

                  @broberg @evroom , thanks guys. That is exactly what I needed.
                  -1 degree of rotation and it is perfect now.

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