Raspiblitz: 3.2" Case vs 3.5" Screen?

[aaronn]

The linked case says it snaps around a 3.2" screen, but the linked screen in the reference shopping list is 3.5". Just double checking – is this correct and fits despite what's listed?

[raumi75]

You can‘t put the top frame on becaus the display is too large, but that‘s not really important. It will look like the photo in the readme.

[aaronn]

Got it. Thank you.

[dhniels]

I bought the waveshare 3.2" pi display, and I can confirm the frame does fit around the 3.2" display.

The example pi display in the Readme appears to be the 3.5" model (frame doesnt fit, doesnt have the 3 buttons on the end.)

However the 3.2" model has an issue with wrapping the text, and as a result the status screen gets all messed up. Here is a photo. Not sure if theres a way to remedy this?

[rootzoll]

On testing I gave up on the 3.2" because of this text wrapp problem. 3.5" working fine and on the case just ignore the topping - looks good without it :)

[openoms]

@dhniels
I have came around this thread: https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/3543/how-do-i-increase-the-terminal-font-size
Get the list of fonts in your terminal: ls -la /usr/share/consolefonts/
and try something smaller, for example:
sudo setfont /usr/share/consolefonts/Uni3-TerminusBold14.psf.gz
Try some others and please let us know which gave you the desired result with the 3.2" screen.

[openoms]

you can also run sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup to choose and keep the setting after reboot

[dhniels]

@openoms brilliant, thank you! the smallest font I could see was Uni3-Terminus12x6.psf.gz which still wraps just a couple characters, but at least the status screen is readable now.

i wonder if a smaller font can be downloaded and set? or perhaps a way to edit the status screen itself (removing the lightning bolt ascii art for example) to prevent the text wrapping?

[openoms]

This is open source, so anything is possible :) . There should be plenty of other fonts available.
The easiest is still probably what you suggest is to edit the screen contents.
You need to edit the 00infoBlitz.sh.

Run the inbuilt text editor with:
sudo nano 00infoBlitz.sh
press the down arrow to scroll to the bottom and you will find the ASCII art.
To save press: CTRL+O, CTRL+X to exit.
Might need to restart to take effect.

[dhniels]

@openoms Thanks for pointing me to the file! I was able to get it to fit on the 3.2” display by changing to the Uni3-Terminus12x6 font, removed 3 characters from the dashed line, removed the spaces between the dash next to “free mem”, and removing “net” from the bitcoin line. Here is a photo of my fancy 3.2” RaspiBlitz in action!