Raspberry Pi Config Editor

by Thomas Angielsky

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Raspberry Pi Config Editor Raspbian – Linux - Windows

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What is the config editor? • First it is a normal editor app • It’s specialized to edit the config.txt file of a Raspberry Pi • It got highlighting functions for the properties • And it is visually - it displays the most cryptic codes of the configuration settings • You can CLICK and SELECT instead of TYPE and SEARCH

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How does a config.txt look like? • Lots of properties • Cryptic values • Uncomfortable editing Edited with nano on an Pi

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The editor with more fun Groups for properties Valid values with explanations

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Your decision: change whenever you want Visual input Editor with highlighting

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An example • We want to setup a Raspberry Pi with a 5” display • The display needs a fixed resolution of 800x480 pixels (15:9) • It’s power connected via USB from our Raspberry Pi What properties do we have to set in the config.txt ?? ?

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Start as usual • Download your image from raspberrypi.org/downloads • Write image to the SD card • Just let the card in the reader • And start the Raspberry Pi Config Editor

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It‘s easy… • Open the config.txt of your Pi • First activate more USB power on the group- page USB

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Setup the display • Select HDMI • Set HDMI drive to Normal DVI mode • Change HDMI group to DMT • And choose our resolution in HDMI mode • Ohh – our display is not supported! • But we can use a special mode: choose Custom mode

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Setup the display • Switch to the group Custom mode • And enter our values: 800 480 60 6 0 0 0 • Press SAVE button • Ready

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Let‘s look what the code looks like

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And a test? Great, it works

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Download You can download it from my homepage: https://techpluscode.de/rpiconfigedit-en/ You can download it on github: https://github.com/tangielsky/rpiconfigedit

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Contact and ideas? I’m happy for you ideas, and comments. You can write to me ideas and issues on github: https://github.com/tangielsky/rpiconfigedit Or with the contact form of my blog: https://techpluscode.de/start/kontakt/ Thanks for that!

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What‘s inside The app is coded with Lazarus and is Freeware! https://www.lazarus-ide.org Because of that you can use it on nearly every computer system. Just compile it by yourself with Lazarus. You can download the source also on github: https://github.com/tangielsky/rpiconfigedit