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10" touchscreen for Cerbo GX

I have a 10" touchscreen I plan on using for my Cerbo on my boat - is working well with a mouse but I'm having problems with the touchscreen.

I have been through the instructions here Generic touchscreen on Cerbo - Victron Community (victronenergy.com)

but when I come to run the calibrate function I get an error:


root@einstein:~# ts_calibrate
ts_setup: No such file or directory

It is ab "Akntzcs 10.1 inch from Amazon", I'm running firmware 3.30~17


Any ideas?

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Henry Pearson avatar image Henry Pearson commented ·
@mvader (Victron Energy) any suggestions? Is this beta firmware related?
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Al answered ·

Maybe a bit late for you now, but I just use the touchscreen Amazon kindle fire 10" and fully Kiosk browser to view a mirror of the remote console with disabled hotkeys, so same view as my GX Touch. It works well, and works on Wi-Fi so you can walk around with it, but maybe a second or two lag when accessing menus.

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Henry Pearson avatar image Henry Pearson commented ·
Thanks, useful idea, but yes, screen already installed now.

I am going to install a Pi 5 and they were going to share the screen. But I could just use the web interface to access the cerbo

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beagle answered ·

I run this:


Connect to your Cerbo via SSH.

Run the following commands...

opkg update

opkg install tslib-calibrate

Enable headless mode...

touch /etc/venus/headless

reboot

fbset -xres 1024 -yres 600

ts_calibrate

Now go to the screen and do the actual calibration on the screen.

Once calibration is done disable headless mode...

rm /etc/venus/headless

reboot

But you probably trtied that.

Leo


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Henry Pearson avatar image Henry Pearson commented ·
@Beagle thanks I had tried that but will give it another go next week. Someone on FB pointed out, I had been hitting enter between the 2 lines of fbset..... and ts_calibrate

That then produced the error, will try it together on one line

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