help change screen orientation

2ami · May 1, 2018 at 7:05 PM

hello guys

i might need some help, im about to install singage like video to our store (charity project), but it designed vertically just like smartphone screen, if i play this video in kodi it only display small portion in the middle of the screen, i just want to play it in fullscreen with the tv rotated vertically, and no such setting to rotate the screen in kodi. kodi with amlogic box is the simplest and cheapest method, can anyone help me or point me to the right direction, thank you so much

**Klojum** · May 1, 2018 at 7:15 PM Official Post

A Raspberry Pi uses a simple setting in its config.txt file for rotating a screen to 0/90/180/270 degrees:

display_rotate=0 Normal

display_rotate=1 90 degrees

display_rotate=2 180 degrees

display_rotate=3 270 degrees

display_rotate=0x10000 horizontal flip

display_rotate=0x20000 vertical flip

I'm not sure how an Amlogic box would do this using LibreELEC.

2ami · May 1, 2018 at 7:27 PM

im not an expert user, my best knowledge only log in putty and changing something in a text file, do you thing this is somekind of pi's only uboot thingies or can we just copy paste this command in kodi /storage/.config/autorun?

thanks klojum

**Klojum** · May 1, 2018 at 8:45 PM Official Post

For a Raspberry Pi and LibreELEC, you will have to get into a SSH connection to the RPi device, make the system read-only partition writable, edit the display_rotate command into the /flash/config.txt file, save it, and reboot the RPi device.

See Raspberry Pi Config.txt [LibreELEC.wiki]

2ami · May 2, 2018 at 3:17 AM

im not using rasb pi, but k1 pro, i will give it a try and report back, thanks alot klojum

2ami · June 1, 2018 at 9:28 PM

tried it on x96mini and k2 pro, no effects at all using config.txt, in the end i'm using android atv mod as it can flip 270

hope this feature will be implemented someday

ramishi · May 21, 2021 at 2:26 PM

I’m on the same boat and looking for a solution. May I know how you solve it at the end? Which firmware you use for your tv box? And under what setting it allows flipping 270？