Raspberry Pi Config Editor

The Raspberry Pi Config Editor visually displays the most cryptic codes in the configuration settings of a Raspberry Pi. The editor does not work with codes but with plain texts. So hopefully starting up your Raspi will be a breeze.

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1. Raspberry Pi Config Editor
   Raspbian – Linux - Windows
   

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

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

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

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6. 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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7. 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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8. It‘s easy…
   • Open the
   config.txt of
   your Pi
   • First activate
   more USB power
   on the group-
   page USB
   

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9. 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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10. 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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11. Let‘s look what the code looks like
    

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12. And a test?
    Great, it
    works
    

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13. 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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14. 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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15. 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
    

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16. Become curious?
    Check the webpage of rpiconfigedit
    https://techpluscode.de/rpiconfigedit-en/
    Or on Hackster.io
    https://www.hackster.io/tangielsky/raspberry-pi-config-
    editor-1f249d
    © 2019 T. Angielsky
    

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