From time to time, I’ve found it necessary to attach a keyboard and screen to my Home Assistant computer (Odroid N2).
I got tired of hauling out the hi-res 24"screen, so I bought myself a little 8" screen.
Annoyingly the Linux O/S hasn’t noticed that the old screen was 1920 dots high and the new one is only 600; fonts are only 4 or 5 pixels high and not really readable.
Is there some way to configure the base O/S for fewer lines/larger fonts, something to add somewhere before HA starts running.
Try pressing ctrl-shift-+ in the terminal.
Thanks for the thought but this isn’t a terminal, this is the console.
(I think Ctrl-Shift-+ only works in a browser)
No, for instance it also works in the w11 terminal.
But I assumed not in the console and I have seen more users reporting here with the same problem (small display on their HA system)
I’ve discovered that the base O/S includes the SETFONT command, which could change the font … if any other fonts were installed. Unfortunately, a close look at the file system suggests that none are.
However, most Linux kernels include two fonts, an 8 pixel and a 16 pixel, with the 8 pixel used by default. If I knew the name of the 16 pixel font, I might be able to let SETFONT use that.
Only I don’t know what the name is, if indeed it’s there at all …