[RPi] Rotating TFT Touchscreen (MPI5001)

meinnamehier · June 3, 2020 at 10:25 AM

Hello,

I am using a 5“ TFT Touchscreen (QDtech MPI5001 from Elecrow). It is plugged in via HDMI and also USB for power and touchscreen data.

It works very well and I am quite happy. Almost - since I want to rotate the screen by 180°. This works when adding "display_rotate=2" to config.txt.

The problem is that the touchscreen is not rotated, so I can not use the touch functionality correctly.

There are some scripts at GitHub - goodtft/LCD-show: 2.4" 2.8"3.2" 3.5" 5.0" 7.0" TFT LCD driver for the Raspberry PI 3B+/A/A+/B/B+/PI2/ PI3/ZERO/ZERO W but they do not work with LibreElec.

I did „libinput list-devices“ and this is the output:

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Device:           QDtech MPI5001
Kernel:           /dev/input/event0
Group:            1
Seat:             seat0, default
Capabilities:     touch
Tap-to-click:     n/a
Tap-and-drag:     n/a
Tap drag lock:    n/a
Left-handed:      n/a
Nat.scrolling:    n/a
Middle emulation: n/a
Calibration:      identity matrix
Scroll methods:   none
Click methods:    none
Disable-w-typing: n/a
Accel profiles:   n/a
Rotation:         n/a

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How can I edit this device? Is this even possible?

Thanks in advance for your help!

meinnamehier · June 4, 2020 at 2:11 PM

I found out how to do it:

Create a udev rule and store the translation matrix in it:

Create a file like "99-touchscreen.rules" in /storage/.config/udev.rules.d/

Content is

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SUBSYSTEM=="input", ATTRS{name}=="QDtech MPI5001", KERNEL=="event*", ENV{LIBINPUT_CALIBRATION_MATRIX}="-1 0 1 0 -1 1"

Took a while, some links:

libinput: Static device configuration via udev

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Greengrass · June 4, 2020 at 4:19 PM

Hi

Im using a 17" Elo Touchscreen, it does work well but my touch is slighly off, example on keyboard if i want a letter i have to touch the letter above it.

For the bigger buttons on Etouchy screen I dont really notice too much just on smaller options its anoying

do you think this can be fixed with code?

Many Thanks

meinnamehier · June 5, 2020 at 3:50 PM

To be honest, I really do not have a clue, but take a look at this libinput: Device configuration

Here it is explained how to make your own matrix, so something like "1 0 0 0 1 -0.1" might do the trick. You could use that as a starting point.

Also, you need to find the name of your device, this can be done with "libinput list-devices".

Hope this helps - I am really just stumbling along....

r0bin-fr · January 2, 2025 at 10:37 PM

i created an account just to say :

meinnamehier thank you so much!

i had the calibration issue, i did your fix and it worked ! (using 10" touchscreen on raspbian)

- Create a file like "99-touchscreen.rules" in /etc/udev/rules.d/

- enter:

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SUBSYSTEM=="input", ATTRS{name}=="QDtech MPI5001", KERNEL=="event*", ENV{LIBINPUT_CALIBRATION_MATRIX}="1 0 0 0 1 -0.1"

- then, do the reinit and test :

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udevadm hwdb --update
udevadm trigger /sys/class/input/event2
udevadm test /sys/class/input/event2

fixed!