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Discussion on: Create a Digital Sign Using a Raspberry Pi (Automated Setup)

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Marc Vilella

Very easy to follow tutorial. I have couple of doubts:

  • Why are you setting crontab job to shutdown 5 minutes after switching on display?
  • How do you achieve a portrait rotation? I've been couple of days fiddling without success. Seems like RPi4 driver is quite tricky :S
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Michael Lohr

Hi,
the crontab job turns the display off at 01:00, turns in on at 07:55, and restarts the PI at 08:00. The restart is unnecessary.

The rotation was indeed a tricky task. If you use the vc4-fkms-v3d driver, it should work with those settings: github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/blob/ma....