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Hy. I got this generic TFT screen and I"ve been trying forever to get it working. I have no clue what to do anymore. I"ve followed this tutorial and I couldn"t get it working because the X file isn"t there to edit :P.

OK. First things first. Forget that adafruit guide. As you have correctly deduced, it"s largely irrelevant for your screen, and you don"t want to be tied to their proprietary bootloader which kills your setup if you ever update/upgrade.

You"re in luck that the screen you have is a copy/clone of the Waveshare 3.2" tft. There are many rip-off screens but if they have the same driver chip most should work the same.

You can get a screen that is ready to roll with no modifying for somewhere in the region of $6, they come in a range of sizes (2.2",2.4",2.8") and you can chop away excess PCB and get it rather small. They have a few more wires, and some slight software tweaks are needed to get them to work. So first off, lets get the wires connected.

So now your pi is wired up, get your pi up and running with a keyboard and a screen, we need to start to get things working. I am assuming we are working on a fresh install of RetroPie

OK, so we have proven the screen works, we need to make things more interesting. Firstly, you might have noticed that if you were to restart the pi, you will need to type your modprobe line in again to restart the screen. now this is no fun for a tiny handheld, so lets make the screen work every time.

You need to add the spi line, so that we are sure the connection port is ready for use, and then the tft device starts the screen. but we need to add in all of those extra settings that we had to type before. there is a place for this and it is another file. type this

now try restarting the pi (I normally type sudo init 6) and let the pi restart. Fingers crossed your screen will light during the reboot process. If not, check your files for typo"s, and check dmesg for any errors.

there may be some comments up above, but these are just there for information. If you restart the pi now, you will see the screen initialise, and then it should show the splash screen after a few seconds. before you know it, you will have your pi up and rolling on the tft screen!! Top job!!!

You can see the traces really well on these boards, so they are easy to check. Each of the pins will go to one of the 18 pins in the ribbon cable. 18-15 are for touch 14-10 are for the backlight 9-1 power and control the screen (this should help you trace the pins)

Don"t contact me about obtaining my board files (as you will not get them). If my Boards or PCB Kits are sold out, they will be restocked as soon as I can get them and there is demand for them. You can join the mailing list on my Website to be notified when they are available.

Yeah I started with an Motorola atrix lapdock (screen and keyboard in a laptop form factor with USB and HDMI) you can in theory use it as a second screen displaying box art or system status.

Yeah I started with an Motorola atrix lapdock (screen and keyboard in a laptop form factor with USB and HDMI) you can in theory use it as a second screen displaying box art or system status.

Do you have any recommendations? also do you need anything else to make these screens work? I"m trying to find schematics of those boards that come with the screens but there seem to be many variants of the same thing. Do you use a voltage regulator for the screen and backlight?

Don"t contact me about obtaining my board files (as you will not get them). If my Boards or PCB Kits are sold out, they will be restocked as soon as I can get them and there is demand for them. You can join the mailing list on my Website to be notified when they are available.

Helder wrote:Do you have any recommendations? also do you need anything else to make these screens work? I"m trying to find schematics of those boards that come with the screens but there seem to be many variants of the same thing. Do you use a voltage regulator for the screen and backlight?

The screen seems to run well on 3.3v, so I"m just powering it from the Pi"s 3.3v pin with no issues. Just added a resistor for the backlight, but it does work straight to 3.3v too!

I couldn"t find a schematic for the boards, just a pinout http://s.aliexpress.com/JvYJvAre, so I risked the $2 on my test boards. The 2.4 and 2.8 screens have an extra 4 pins for touch

I have a board where the screen ribbon goes straight to the pi gpio with no other components, I"m just waiting on China Post for some naked screens to test it with (been 4 weeks already

This 5 inch TFT display with touch function is a mini panel-mountable HDMI monitor. It"s small and simple, and the shape makes it easy to attach to a electronic product.

5 inch HDMI display with 800*480 mini LCD screen, high-resolution picture, large viewing angle, fast response time, full color display. It supports manual backlight control, backlight switch can be turn off to lower power consumption.

It is resistive touchscreen monitor which comes with a touch pen for easy use. When working with Raspberry Pi 4 3B+ 3B 2B+, directly plugged, I/Os for touch function and power supply, HDMI interface for displaying.

Monitor can work with standard HDMI devices (adjust output resolution to 800*480),while the touch function is only available for Raspbian and Ubuntu systems.

Monitor can work with standard HDMI devices (adjust output resolution to 800*480),while the touch function is only available for Raspbian and Ubuntu systems.

This is a 5" Raspberry Pi LCD touchscreen with 800*480 resolution and 108×64.8mm display area. The product supports Raspberry Pi DSI display interface and comes with a capacitive touch panel on its screen and supports 5 touch points.

The special holes design on the back of the screen is convenient to directly install the Raspberry Pi in the product. There is no need to provide external power for the touchscreen as the Raspberry Pi power supply is adopted. In addition, the screen supports hardware backlight adjustment. The function can be realized by turning the potentiometer on the back of the display.

The UCTRONICS 3.5 Inch touch screen is the same size as the standard Raspberry Pi model B/B+, and well-mates with the Raspberry Pi boards. With a tiny size, vivid image, and responsive touchscreen, it is definitely ideal for portable devices and multimedia projects. It is a great replacement for a heavy and bulky HDMI monitor, keyboard, and mouse

Step1: Align the pin 1 of the edge connector between the LCD display and Raspberry pi board, connect the pin 1,2,3,4 then pin 19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26.

Attention: If you use this display without a Pi, the touch function is not available because the touch function of this display just supports the Raspbian system. Meanwhile, an extra HDMI cable also is required for the video transmission.

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The screen Display support 125MHz SPI signal input, it can display stable without flicker, the refresh rate is about 50fps, it’s enough to play the video and game.

Match PC Protective Case for your screen and Pi, use split design make it easy to install, also match tweezers to make install more easy. White nylon column can help screen maintain balance.

HyperPixel 4.0 is the perfect way to use your Pi without a bunch of cables or a bulky display. Design your own interface to control your project, display data, or turn your Pi into a tiny media centre.

This new version of HyperPixel has a gorgeous IPS display, with wide viewing angles, custom-made cover glass (on the touch version), and the alternate I2C interface is broken out for advanced users.

Note that the images of the displays on this page have not been Photoshopped. That"s the Raspberry Pi OS desktop with our HyperPixel wallpaper on! (click here to download our HyperPixel wallpaper)

HyperPixel uses a high-speed DPI interface, allowing it to shift 5x more pixel data than the usual SPI interface that these small Pi displays use. It has a 60 FPS frame rate and a resolution of approximately 235 pixels per inch (800x480) on its 4.0" display. The display can show 18-bits of colour (262,144 colours).

The Touch version has a capacitive touch display that"s more sensitive and responsive to touch than a resistive touch display, and it"s capable of multi-touch!

Everything comes fully-assembled, and there"s no soldering required! The display is securely stuck down to the HyperPixel 4.0 PCB and connected via a neat little flush-mounting FPC cable. Just pop HyperPixel 4.0 on your Pi and run our installer to get everything set up!

Please note: when installing HyperPixel 4.0 onto your Pi make sure not to press down on the screen surface! Hold the board by its edges and wiggle it to mate with the extended header (or GPIO header). Also take care not to pull on the edges of the glass display when removing your HyperPixel.

Raspberry Pi OS Bullseye includes major changes to how DPI display drivers work. If you"re using an image dated 04/04/2022 or later, it will come with Hyperpixel drivers baked in and you don"t need to run the installer. You can set up display and touch by adding a few lines to your boot/config.txt:

If you"re using Raspberry Pi OS Buster/Legacy (or an earlier version), you can use our one-line-installer to configure your Pi properly for HyperPixel 4.0 and to enable the touch screen on the touch version. Note that you"ll need another display, keyboard, and mouse to install the software, or you could do it remotely over SSH if you follow our guide on how to set your Pi up headlessly.

(1) After the LCD driver is installed, the system will automatically restart. After the startup is successful, the LCD can display and touch normally,

C. The retropie-rpi1_zero system cannot log in via SSH (no network port and wifi module). You need to copy the driver through the serial port. For details, see RaspberryPi Zero open serial instructions

After execution, the driver will be installed. The system will automatically restart, and the display screen will rotate 90 degrees to display and touch normally.

2) Connect the TF card to the PC, open the Win32DiskImager software, select the system image downloaded in step 1 and click‘Write’ to write the system image. ( How to write an image to a micro SD card for your Pi? See RPi Image Installation Guides for more details)

3) Connect the TF card to the Raspberry Pi, start the Raspberry Pi. The LCD will display after booting up, and then log in to the Raspberry Pi terminal,(You may need to connect a keyboard and HDMI LCD to Pi for driver installing, or log in remotely with SSH)

This display can be mounted directly on a Raspberry Pi 1, 2, 3 or 4, but requires additional installation of drivers. The display has a resolution of 320*480 pixels and is 3.5 inches diagonally. A resistive touchscreen is mounted on top of the display, for which a small stylus is included.