[SOLVED] Official 7" touch screen rotate works but not the touch part

[Captain-sq]

Hi folks,

My first post here. I've been scouring the forum for answers to touch screen rotation tips and solutions but cannot find anything on my particular issue.

I'm running AP 3.7 on a Pi 3B. In default (landscape) mode it works as expected. I however, need to rotate the lcd+touch 90° clockwise to get it into portrait mode to use it as an Aspen EFD1000 GPS. Here's where I came up short. As a test I put up a Cessna heading instrument. Before rotating 90°, both instrument readout and the buttons work as they should. After rotation 90°, the images/layout rotates just fine, but the button coordinates stays at its former physical position i.e. at the very same spot it was in landscape mode.

I edited the /boot/config.txt and added this at the end of the file:

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# Rotate the LCD touch screen 90 CW
lcd_rotate=1
display_lcd_rotate=1

I tried one of the lines each at a time and both, still no luck. Seems that the AirPlayer 3.7 OS image ignores the touch panel rotation somehow.
Is it possible to fix this, what can I do?

/Thom a.k.a. Captain SQ

[Ralph]

lcd_rotate=# (your angle, e.g. 2) should be enough. Did you try that instead of the two commands?

[Captain-sq]

lcd_rotate=# (your angle, e.g. 2) should be enough. Did you try that instead of the two commands?

Yes, I tried both separately and together.
rotate_lcd=2 flips the LCD 180° (the touch panel follows correct though). rotate_lcd=1 does nothing.

display_lcd_rotate=1 rotates the LCD image correctly 90° CW but the touch panel doesn't follow the rotation.

[Captain-sq]

This is what I want

[Captain-sq]

Any suggestions...?

[Captain-sq]

Never mind... found it at last

Add these lines to the /boot/config.txt

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display_lcd_rotate=1 # rotates image
dtoverlay=rpi-ft5406,touchscreen-swapped-x-y=1,touchscreen-inverted-x=1 # rotates touches

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