I’m trying to setup my raspberry pi 5 to be used as HDMI for my gen 2 Foreman CNC, I downloaded the raspberry pi RTS-X tarball file, I don’t see an executable file to install the software, any help with initial installation will be great, Thanks
Hi,
You have to extract the zip there will be a folder and the excitable they have to be in the same location to work. I’m not a RPi guy but that is how I got it to work.
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I did extract all in one folder but not luck finding the rigth file to execute the program. I’m hoping for a detail procedure to help newbies like me do a proper installation. Thanks for your kind help anyway.
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What screen are you using for your pi?
I am using a portable Asus flat screen that uses both HDMI and USB C
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RTS1 and the Internal folder if I recall correctly. Once you have those unzipped then I double click on RTS1 and the program starts. Sorry my first run with RPI also.
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That’s what I did, but nothing happened and there was no error. I wonder if I need more dependency files.
I played with this briefly this morning and I found the software launches fine in landscape orientation, but failed to launch in portrait orientation.
I don’t know that would be the case for everyone as different hardware environments can make troubleshooting difficult. Also, I didn’t do a deep dive to figure out if there was something I could tweak to get the software to run vertically.
If you are trying to run portrait, I’d suggest trying to run it in landscape and see if you get a different result.
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@LM I ran a quick test today and had the same experience. If I first launched the RealTime software with my RPI desktop orientation set to landscape the software loaded and ran as expected. However, if my desktop orientation is set to portrait first then I launch the application it would not load.
Oddly enough if I launch the application while in landscape mode I was then able to change the screen orientation to portrait screen orientation and the RealTime software rotated and scaled to the screen accordingly.
For my setup I will be using a dedicated RPI to control the CNC and prefer to use the RPI image that the folks at RealTime CNC have provided opposed to loading the modified app onto a RPI running RPI OS with GUI. This way, all of my RPI resources are dedicated to running the CNC and its software. Granted, some resources are needed for WiFi, USB, etc. but none being utilized by RPI desktop GUI running in the background.
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