Help Ray change location on screen.

[Mingohp]

Hello.

I'm new to the forum. My name is Mingo and I live in Tenerife, Spain.

I'm doing a Game Gear-raspberry project. I need to change the location of the yellow beam and the temperature icon on the screen. I searched the Internet and I can't find a way to do it.

Can you help Me?

Thank you.

[jamesh]

You cannot change the position. They are warning icons, and you fix the problem that they are indicating, rather than moving them around.

[Ernst]

I need to change the location of the yellow beam and the temperature icon on the screen. I searched the Internet and I can't find a way to do it.

Changing the location of the yellow lightning and the temperature icon is very simple, all you need to do is to move the icons in the background and they will not be visible.

To change position of the yellow lightning icon: replace the phone charger with a proper approved power supply
To change the position of the temperature icon: make sure that there is sufficient air movement over the SoC, use a heatsink, check whatever applications you are running that may cause the problem, if necessary add active cooling (fan), do not overclock.

Btw. This is what Jamesh meant with fixing the problem(s).

[Mingohp]

Thank you for your answers.

I'm really interested in seeing the icons. My project is with a game gear. The screen I use is 3.5 inches and there is part of the screen hidden by the casing. In that part the icons are hidden. I want to relocate the icons to see when I replace the batteries and to warn me if the temperature rises too much.

[Andyroo]

As above - you cannot change the position.

The two options you have are:
1) Leave then where they are
2) Use a proper power supply and cooling solution to make them go away

[Burngate]

2) Use a proper power supply and cooling solution to make them go away

Wrong answer. Or maybe right answer to wrong question.
Think of it this way: He's at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, so it's rather warm and without any mains power.

It seems they're stuck where they are, so could you adjust the casing so they become visible?

[Andyroo]

It’s always better to engineer things so alarms are not triggered. Better for the electronics in this case.

Anyway - you could look to use water cooling and solar in the Canyon

[Mingohp]

Another possibility is to make a small hole in the frame of the housing. So I can see the energy warning. At that time I will change the batteries. The power supply is enough for the raspberry, but when the batteries run out, it warns me with lightning.

Warnings do not appear normally. But if they appear and I do not see them, it could cause problems. It is not good to do as the ostrich, I bury the head and nothing happens.

[W. H. Heydt]

Another possibility is to make a small hole in the frame of the housing. So I can see the energy warning. At that time I will change the batteries. The power supply is enough for the raspberry, but when the batteries run out, it warns me with lightning.

Warnings do not appear normally. But if they appear and I do not see them, it could cause problems. It is not good to do as the ostrich, I bury the head and nothing happens.

This is where an incomplete initial description comes in. You hadn't mentioned that you were using battery power. This leaves you with some options. One is the do tests to determine the available run time on your battery and shut down the Pi before the voltage drops too low. Another is find a way monitor the battery voltage and do a controlled shutdown when the voltage starts to drop. Or you could use a battery with a higher capacity.

[Mingohp]

Someone knows if there is a way for Recalbox to auto-off when lowering an indicated voltage. This would be another option.

[W. H. Heydt]

Think of it this way: He's at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, so it's rather warm and without any mains power.

Bottom of the Grand Canyon wouldn't worry me overly much about heat. Now if you were talking about being at Furnace Creek in Death Valley... But seriosly, where I live we've been having some really hot weather this week. One local reporting station hit at least 111F and the heat index was that it would feel like 121F. I've been outside in temperatures over 120F and they're....not pleasant.

[Andyroo]

Someone knows if there is a way for Recalbox to auto-off when lowering an indicated voltage. This would be another option.

Simplest way would be to monitor the CPU temp from a little program and end Recalbox when a threshold is reached.

Getting the data is simple:

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from gpiozero import CPUTemperature

cpu = CPUTemperature()
print(cpu.temperature)

See here for more info.