Expand the VNC embedded client resolution beyond 640x480

[marleyjaffe]

Expand the VNC embedded client resolution beyond 640x480

[eddyg]

I run ozw-admin in Docker (the "allinone" container) and I came up with a work-around (for the time being) the small size of the GUI.

The changes below affect both the web-based VNC client, as well as when using a "real" VNC client (like Screens, which is what I used for the screenshots).

Here's a "before" screenshot of Preferences for reference:

I start by logging in to my OZW container:

docker exec -it openzwave /bin/bash

and then copy/pasting:

echo -n 0.5 > /var/run/s6/container_environment/QT_SCALE_FACTOR
echo -n 2 >/var/run/s6/container_environment/QT_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTORS

When you choose File > Exit, ozw-admin will restart and use these new environment variables, resulting in Preferences looking like this:

I also came up with this one-liner that I also copy/paste to resize the client from the default 1024x768 size:

perl -pi -e's/-platform/-qwindowgeometry 1536x1152 -platform/;s/=1024x768/=1536x1152/' /var/run/s6/services/ozwadmin/run

which, when all combined together, makes Preferences look like this, providing a lot more room to interact with ozw-admin:

As I mentioned, these are temporary changes, so anytime the container gets re-created it's necessary to re-run the commands. Since I don't need to restart my OZW container very often, this temporary work-around is OK for now.

Not sure this will work in other situations, but thought it was worth mentioning in case it helped anybody else.

[fgonza2]

we should close this. OZW is obsolete I have migrated to zwaveJS which is awesome and works great, never regret the migration

[Tieske]

when starting the container I pass in these environment variables and it works for me

• QT_SCALE_FACTOR=0.5
• QT_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTORS=2

Does not require to shell into the container, and to modify any files. I'm using it on a Synology NAS, hence configure it using a GUI, but from the command line you should be able to add it to the docker run command by adding this:

-e QT_SCALE_FACTOR=0.5 -e QT_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTORS=2

thx to @eddyg for finding the right names to set.

EDIT: I must note that I use the all-in-one image