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I don"t care about the touch-screen, so I didn"t set it up. All I need this is to show me the IP address of the Raspberry Pi so I can connect through SSH. (This is an issue you may encounter only if you find your RPi connecting to WiFi where you cannot control the IP address assignments and with ridiculously short lease times.)

But the driver board wont fit my clam shell case. I was wondering if there is another option that can use GPIO pins and directly drive the screen. I am quite a newbie to display internal technology. What drivers/chips/pcbs/connectors/technology should I look for? Is this even possible. Any pointers would be very helpful.

@OP: the Pi does not have a LVDS interface, so you can"t connect the display without glue logic. The simplest interface to LVDS is an LVDS transmitter. It takes DPI as input and converts it to LVDS. This will allow to drive resolutions up to thr transmitters capability (i.e. FHD = 1920x1080 pixels).

This gives you some idea viewtopic.php?t=157109&hilit=Lvds+40pin+gpio. Below is an example of driving LVDS FHD display from "DPI + glue logic". You need some DIY skills for sure as such an solution is not available off the shelf (AFIK)

Use a 7 inch TFT LCD with 800x480 and 8 bits color depth, 60Hz frame rate as example, you are talking about 17.69 gbits/sec bandwidth. So there is no way GPIO can supply that.

2) Get a DPI displays and use your GPIO-DPI interface. Problem is I can"t find any DPI displays at 7inch or higher sizes. Another option is to use DSI-DPI bridge but only available as a chip and not as a PI-compatible board.

There is also RGB/LVDS to mipi DSI board (https://m.made-in-china.com/product/5-0 ... 60301.html). However I am not sure if the TFT LVDS panel I have is LVDS/RGB or something else. These converters also seem to not be available for 7.0 or higher sizes screens.

I understand. For that vision to become reality both Pi foundation and display industry to coincidentally converge on usb-c as main interface for display.

I understand. For that vision to become reality both Pi foundation and display industry to coincidentally converge on usb-c as main interface for display.

It seems building a interface/driver is virtually impossible because there is no standard for building DSI displays and the companies don"t share specifications/timing diagram. Please correct me if I am mistaken.

It seems building a interface/driver is virtually impossible because there is no standard for building DSI displays and the companies don"t share specifications/timing diagram. Please correct me if I am mistaken.

Would never ever buy that product based on this spec. So either ask them to provide the full spec or don"t buy it! You were not only missing details on the display interface, there is not detail on the touch in addition (yes, the connector says it"s USB, but what if you want to use it via I2C?).

Get in touch with Vera (vera_yuan _AT_ dlcdisplay.com). Once was in touch with here; she"s very responsive and could provide the requested info as well as giving advice on different (upcoming) products. You can buy DLC via distribution or (if you"re lucky and they carry stock of the particular TFT) digikey.

It says it is using Ilitek ILI9881c panel controller to drive the display. Was wondering if this controller would be compatible with 10.1inch display. I guess I would have to ask NXP or the company that provides boards with this display. Just thought I would share this info and ask if you have any idea/prior information on this.

Ilitek ILI9881c is a TCON - a controller which is part of the display. There is a driver in the kernel source which has init code for several displays already. There are others here on the forum who were trying to get their ILI9881 based display running as well viewtopic.php?t=339281

That Orange Pi display appears to use 4 DSI data lanes, therefore you"ll only have a chance of getting it to work on a CM4, not a regular Pi (which only exposes 2 data lanes).

That Orange Pi display appears to use 4 DSI data lanes, therefore you"ll only have a chance of getting it to work on a CM4, not a regular Pi (which only exposes 2 data lanes).

5) Insert the TF card into the Raspberry Pi, power on the Raspberry Pi, and wait for more than 10 seconds to display normally. But the touch is abnormal at that time, and the touch needs to be calibrated as the following steps.

You can perform touch calibration by clicking the Raspberry Pi icon on the taskbar, selecting Preferences -> Calibrate Touchscreen, and following the displayed prompts.

4. After calibration, the following data will be displayed. If you want to save these touch values, you can replace the data in the red circle with the data in the corresponding position in 99-calibration.conf.

After snapping the board, case, usb adapters for wifi and wireless keyboard, plugging in hdmi and power, nothing happened. A red light on the board lit up, but nothing else. I went online and after some googling, I found out that if no OS is recognized, nothing will display on your TV/monitor. I unplugged the power, took out the SD card and re-inserted, and the system booted into NOOBS.

In my opinion it"s not wise to display the whole QLC+ surface to work with, but a screen similarly to the web interface, may configurable separately...

Using the RPi along with QLC+ as a standalone solution (with the help of a TFT) would be nice, as there were no need for WiFi (router) at all (to use the web interface)!

Preparing a light show (more or less) off-line on a PC is very handy... Transferring such a project onto the RPi is already solved by your development... Controlling this light show via touchscreen would be very useful too.

In conclusion, you"d need to build a modified kernel to obtain the drivers for Watterott display. Something I don"t suggest to anyone not having a certain confidence in building a Linux kernel.

In this article, you will learn how to use TFT LCDs by Arduino boards. From basic commands to professional designs and technics are all explained here.

In electronic’s projects, creating an interface between user and system is very important. This interface could be created by displaying useful data, a menu, and ease of access. A beautiful design is also very important.

There are several components to achieve this. LEDs,  7-segments, Character and Graphic displays, and full-color TFT LCDs. The right component for your projects depends on the amount of data to be displayed, type of user interaction, and processor capacity.

TFT LCD is a variant of a liquid-crystal display (LCD) that uses thin-film-transistor (TFT) technology to improve image qualities such as addressability and contrast. A TFT LCD is an active matrix LCD, in contrast to passive matrix LCDs or simple, direct-driven LCDs with a few segments.

In Arduino-based projects, the processor frequency is low. So it is not possible to display complex, high definition images and high-speed motions. Therefore, full-color TFT LCDs can only be used to display simple data and commands.

In this article, we have used libraries and advanced technics to display data, charts, menu, etc. with a professional design. This can move your project presentation to a higher level.

In electronic’s projects, creating an interface between user and system is very important. This interface could be created by displaying useful data, a menu, and ease of access. A beautiful design is also very important.

There are several components to achieve this. LEDs,  7-segments, Character and Graphic displays, and full-color TFT LCDs. The right component for your projects depends on the amount of data to be displayed, type of user interaction, and processor capacity.

TFT LCD is a variant of a liquid-crystal display (LCD) that uses thin-film-transistor (TFT) technology to improve image qualities such as addressability and contrast. A TFT LCD is an active matrix LCD, in contrast to passive matrix LCDs or simple, direct-driven LCDs with a few segments.

In Arduino-based projects, the processor frequency is low. So it is not possible to display complex, high definition images and high-speed motions. Therefore, full-color TFT LCDs can only be used to display simple data and commands.

In this article, we have used libraries and advanced technics to display data, charts, menu, etc. with a professional design. This can move your project presentation to a higher level.

Size of displays affects your project parameters. Bigger Display is not always better. if you want to display high-resolution images and signs, you should choose a big size display with higher resolution. But it decreases the speed of your processing, needs more space and also needs more current to run.

After choosing the right display, It’s time to choose the right controller. If you want to display characters, tests, numbers and static images and the speed of display is not important, the Atmega328 Arduino boards (such as Arduino UNO) are a proper choice. If the size of your code is big, The UNO board may not be enough. You can use Arduino Mega2560 instead. And if you want to show high resolution images and motions with high speed, you should use the ARM core Arduino boards such as Arduino DUE.

In electronics/computer hardware a display driver is usually a semiconductor integrated circuit (but may alternatively comprise a state machine made of discrete logic and other components) which provides an interface function between a microprocessor, microcontroller, ASIC or general-purpose peripheral interface and a particular type of display device, e.g. LCD, LED, OLED, ePaper, CRT, Vacuum fluorescent or Nixie.

The display driver will typically accept commands and data using an industry-standard general-purpose serial or parallel interface, such as TTL, CMOS, RS232, SPI, I2C, etc. and generate signals with suitable voltage, current, timing and demultiplexing to make the display show the desired text or image.

The LCDs manufacturers use different drivers in their products. Some of them are more popular and some of them are very unknown. To run your display easily, you should use Arduino LCDs libraries and add them to your code. Otherwise running the display may be very difficult. There are many free libraries you can find on the internet but the important point about the libraries is their compatibility with the LCD’s driver. The driver of your LCD must be known by your library. In this article, we use the Adafruit GFX library and MCUFRIEND KBV library and example codes. You can download them from the following links.

By these two functions, You can find out the resolution of the display. Just add them to the code and put the outputs in a uint16_t variable. Then read it from the Serial port by Serial.println(); . First add Serial.begin(9600); in setup().

Upload your image and download the converted file that the UTFT libraries can process. Now copy the hex code to Arduino IDE. x and y are locations of the image. sx and sy are size of the image.

In this template, We converted a .jpg image to .c file and added to the code, wrote a string and used the fade code to display. Then we used scroll code to move the screen left. Download the .h file and add it to the folder of the Arduino sketch.

In this template, We used sin(); and cos(); functions to draw Arcs with our desired thickness and displayed number by text printing function. Then we converted an image to hex code and added them to the code and displayed the image by bitmap function. Then we used draw lines function to change the style of the image. Download the .h file and add it to the folder of the Arduino sketch.

In this template, We created a function which accepts numbers as input and displays them as a pie chart. We just use draw arc and filled circle functions.

while (a < b) { Serial.println(a); j = 80 * (sin(PI * a / 2000)); i = 80 * (cos(PI * a / 2000)); j2 = 50 * (sin(PI * a / 2000)); i2 = 50 * (cos(PI * a / 2000)); tft.drawLine(i2 + 235, j2 + 169, i + 235, j + 169, tft.color565(0, 255, 255)); tft.fillRect(200, 153, 75, 33, 0x0000); tft.setTextSize(3); tft.setTextColor(0xffff); if ((a/20)>99)

while (b < a) { j = 80 * (sin(PI * a / 2000)); i = 80 * (cos(PI * a / 2000)); j2 = 50 * (sin(PI * a / 2000)); i2 = 50 * (cos(PI * a / 2000)); tft.drawLine(i2 + 235, j2 + 169, i + 235, j + 169, tft.color565(0, 0, 0)); tft.fillRect(200, 153, 75, 33, 0x0000); tft.setTextSize(3); tft.setTextColor(0xffff); if ((a/20)>99)

In this template, We display simple images one after each other very fast by bitmap function. So you can make your animation by this trick.  Download the .h file and add it to folder of the Arduino sketch.

In this template, We just display some images by RGBbitmap and bitmap functions. Just make a code for touchscreen and use this template.  Download the .h file and add it to folder of the Arduino sketch.

The ST7789 TFT module contains a display controller with the same name: ST7789. It’s a color display that uses SPI interface protocol and requires 3, 4 or 5 control pins, it’s low cost and easy to use. This display is an IPS display, it comes in different sizes (1.3″, 1.54″ …) but all of them should have the same resolution of 240×240 pixel, this means it has 57600 pixels. This module works with 3.3V only and it doesn’t support 5V (not 5V tolerant).

The ST7789 display module shown in project circuit diagram has 7 pins: (from right to left): GND (ground), VCC, SCL (serial clock), SDA (serial data), RES (reset), DC (or D/C: data/command) and BLK (back light).

As mentioned above, the ST7789 TFT display controller works with 3.3V only (power supply and control lines). The display module is supplied with 3.3V (between VCC and GND) which comes from the Arduino board.

To connect the Arduino to the display module, I used voltage divider for each line which means there are 4 voltage dividers. Each voltage divider consists of 2.2k and 3.3k resistors, this drops the 5V into 3V which is sufficient.

The first library is a driver for the ST7789 TFT display which can be installed from Arduino IDE library manager (Sketch —> Include Library —> Manage Libraries …, in the search box write “st7789” and install the one from Adafruit).

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WF70GTIFGDHTV is a 7 inch medium-sized for HDMI signal TFT-LCD display, made of resolution 800x480 dots. This 7 inch TFT Display comes with a board which supports HDMI signal interface and a 40-pin connector on it; WF70GTIFGDHTV is designed to make Raspberry Pi usage become easily. This WF70GTIFGDHTV TFT display has a USB interface Resistive Touch screen overlay on TFT panel. Also the Capacitive Touch Panel is available for option. We designed a connector part no. WWHDMI-00# for option, the customers can use it to connect WF70GTIFGDHTV module with your Raspberry Pi directly. If customers do not require a 40-pin header connector on board, please choose WF70GTIFGDHT0.

You can simply use this medium-sized TFT display with your Raspberry Pi, and also you can use it as computer display with any device which supports HDMI signal output. This 7" TFT display is 800x480 resolutions, which is just enough to run most software, but still small enough that it can be used in portable or embedded projects without the bulk. Please note, this part no. WF70GTIFGDHTV does not include any HDMI connector or USB cable.

There are a couple things you may need to change in the code above, depending on your set up. On line 19 there is a function that defines the port for the I2C bus (I2CBUS = 0). Older Raspberry Pi’s used port 0, but newer models use port 1. So depending on which RPi model you have, you might need to change this from 0 to 1.

The function mylcd.lcd_display_string() prints text to the screen and also lets you chose where to position it. The function is used as mylcd.lcd_display_string("TEXT TO PRINT", ROW, COLUMN). For example, the following code prints “Hello World!” to row 2, column 3:

On a 16×2 LCD, the rows are numbered 1 – 2, while the columns are numbered 0 – 15. So to print “Hello World!” at the first column of the top row, you would use mylcd.lcd_display_string("Hello World!", 1, 0).

You can create any pattern you want and print it to the display as a custom character. Each character is an array of 5 x 8 pixels. Up to 8 custom characters can be defined and stored in the LCD’s memory. This custom character generator will help you create the bit array needed to define the characters in the LCD memory.

The code below will display data from a DHT11 temperature and humidity sensor. Follow this tutorial for instructions on how to set up the DHT11 on the Raspberry Pi. The DHT11 signal pin is connected to BCM pin 4 (physical pin 7 of the RPi).

By inserting the variable from your sensor into the mylcd.lcd_display_string() function (line 22 in the code above) you can print the sensor data just like any other text string.

I think the original RPi circuit based on shift register was created by by someone who did not analyse the design properly but found "it worked", subsequently the design was was adopted by some Chinese vendors, again without analysing the design because support software was already freely available.

That"s sad. These displays are extremely widely available, and because of such a dumb mistake, they can be used at only 1/3rd of their performance or worse.

It"s linked in the README of this library too, but I didn"t find this particular display for sale anywhere. I"ve seen some SPI boards that obviously don"t have the 4 ICs needed for the botched SPI -> parallel translation, but they didn"t have the MHS text on the photos of their PCBs.

Also, the Waveshare pico display is actually nice. It"s an IPS screen, which seems to be rare for 3.5" or 4" displays. Is there any chance that I could modify the Waveshare board to switch it to direct SPI? (I suppose even if possible, this would require some major skills to change the IM configuration pins and to rewrite the data lines... which means "no".)

However for hand wiring a display the 4 wire SPI types are less error prone. The ILI9488 is slower then others with SPI as it needs 3 bytes per pixel instead of 2, on the other hand the ILI9488 displays are readily available.

Dustin Watts has designed a board for SPI displays and the RP2040 here. I use this board with multiple display types that have the same connection pin header.