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    • J Offline
      Jeff
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      I’m really interested if it works.
      Has anybody tried yet?

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      • lolobyteL Offline
        lolobyte
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        The Raspi can’t manage two displays!

        2 display’s = 2 raspi’s!

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          Jeff @lolobyte
          last edited by

          @lolobyte said in Dual display:

          The Raspi can’t manage two displays!

          2 display’s = 2 raspi’s!

          Do you really mean the Raspi, or do you mean MagicMirror?
          There is a VGA Modul for the Rasp, to handle two displays.

          It’s just interesting if MM knows hof to show it correct on restart.

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            lolobyte @Jeff
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            @Jeff

            Hi jeff,

            the raspi has only a hdmi output and a output 4 a gpio display.

            It is not possible to really work with 2 display’s.

            U have a link to your VGA Module?

            If this module is really capable to run those 2 displays than u maybe can run a MM as web server build and one as MM2.

            If it’s possible to run two different MM2 instances i don’t really know that.

            Maybe it’s possible to run a second MM2 at another port!

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              Jeff @lolobyte
              last edited by

              @lolobyte

              https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/gert-vga-adapter/

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                lolobyte @Jeff
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                @Jeff

                nice project.

                SW is in development!

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                • W Offline
                  wemarch
                  last edited by wemarch

                  Hey everybody, finally i managed to solder the GERT VGA-adapter!
                  I hope to find the time to test if it works this week. i will share my experiences here :-)

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                    Jeff
                    last edited by

                    Looking forward seeing your experiences ;)

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                    • W Offline
                      wemarch
                      last edited by

                      So the VGA adapter works (despite ugly soldering) but i did not manage to use VGA and HDMI simultaneously. After some further research on the topic i think it is necessary to use a custom kernel.

                      On ubuntu i know you can configure dual display using xrandr, but i have no idea how to do something like that with raspbian.

                      Please see this very interesting question at stackexchange: http://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/a/27048/55885.

                      I will try to dig a little deeper but to be honest i’m not deep enough into linux and development to fully understand this issue.
                      If you have any advice or interesting links on how to get dual display to work, please share!

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                        lolobyte @wemarch
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                        @wemarch

                        i have something for you.
                        I try this but it doesn’t work how i wish.

                        Maybe u can use some ideas from this video.

                        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2ouG1VmD88&feature=youtu.be

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