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Raspberry Pi Config Editor

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.

Thomas Angielsky

May 22, 2019
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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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