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One of the most awaited plugins for Volumio is finall here: the touchscreen plugin. With it you can easily show the gorgeous Volumio UI on any display, included the official Raspberry PI Display, available on our Shop. Let’s see how to easily achieve a fantastic touchscreen for your favourite music player in less than 10 minutes. This tutorial will explain how to connect the Raspberry PI display and enable the Volumio UI with the plugin.

Assuming you’ve already downloaded and flashed Volumio to your Raspberry PI (we suggest to use the newest  Raspberry PI 3), the first step is the wiring:First, let’s attach the ribbon cable going from the Raspberry PI Display to the PI itself. On the Raspberry PI Side, make sure the blue part of the ribbon cable is facing outwards. Your final goal should look like this:

Notoriously, feeding your PI with an adequate Power Supply is mandatory to have a reliable system. That’s especially true when we connect a power-hungry device like the Raspberry PI Display. Luckily, there’s a way to understand if your PSU is good enough: just power on your pi and observe the screen, if you see a coloured square on the top-right side of the screen, it means that power to your PI is not enough. Don’t you see it? Then all is good.

That’s the easy one. Just connect to Volumio’s WebUi as you would usually do, and navigate to the Plugins page from the settings menu. In Miscellanea category, you’ll find the Touchscreen plugin. Just click install, nothing more. PLEASE NOTE: The touchscreen plugin is compatible with volumio version from 2.001 onwards

The installation will last about 7 minutes, so wait patiently until you see “Installation Complete”. Now you can enable or disable the Display output to your likings.

I must admit that altough this display is not particularly brilliant when it comes to resolution and colour accuracy, it looks indeed very nice with Volumio’s UI. Also, usability is very good on the Raspberry PI 3 and the UI runs smoothly also with big libraries… So, folks, enjoy!

If you don’t have a Raspberry PI, or you’re simply looking for alternatives to the Official Raspberry PI Display, there are at least two extra options for you:

The Odroid display is not only a viable alternative, it also have several advantages over its PI counterpart:Since it takes power from USB and video signal from HDMI, it can be used virtually with any Computer with an HDMI output, not just the Odroid or the Raspberry PI.

UPDATE: Lot of time since I published the original article. The Odroid 7” does not seem to work properly with Raspberry PI (not tested with the Odroid). So, if you’re looking for a display for the Raspberry PI, get the official one.

The Waveshare 7” display has become rapidly a widely adopted display, thanks to its cheap price. However this particular touchscreen has shown several reliability issues (altough this seems fixed in latest models, thanks to a firmware update), it requires a particular touchscreen driver which is not always included in major distros and its colour reproduction is not the best.

Here we are folks! Hope you found this article helpful, you can share via comment below how you use your Volumio’s touchscreen setup and if there are other display alternatives!

For smaller projects, LCD and ePaper displays are a fun way to add a visual element to your projects. With simple code and wiring, they’re great for projects that require text, menus and navigation.

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.

The resolution of the LCD display is 800 x 480, you can configure the resolution via software, and the maximum resolution it supports is 1920 x 1080. It is a USB capacitive touch screen and does not require a driver. It supports five touch control, besides that, the LCD screen comes with an OSD menu adjustment function. You can adjust the contrast, brightness, and switch button. There are 9 interfaces on the back of the screen, one earphone for audio output; two touches (USB connector), for power supply and touch output; one display, an HDMI interface, for connecting the motherboard and LCD display. One power, it can control the backlight to turn on and turn off to save power. One return, it’s only useful in the OSD menu. One right/down, backlight shortcut key. One left/up, backlight shortcut key. A menu, it’s useful in the OSD setting menu, open the OSD/ select key.

Did you start with a fresh Volumio system? If so, did you wait to give the system enough time to expand the file system before you installed the Touch Display plugin?

If you don’t want to do that or if the issue should persist even after installing from scratch, logs would be needed to investigate. For this purpose connect to Volumio via SSH and run sudo journalctl -f which can be stopped with Ctrl + c any time. You will be able to watch the moment when Volumio begins to restart. Copy the log entries between two Volumio restarts and paste them here or PM me.

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I had RPi working with Volumio in the Raspberry 7" display and had it running for two weeks. It then would boot intermittently, and then it died. I took the RPi out of it"s display case, flashed several new good quality microSD cards with Volumio and Moode, but neither would boot. I"d get a solid red light (power), and 8 green light flashes and then nothing. With a little research it appears that 8 green light flashes indicate bad SDRAM. So it seems my RPi is faulty. I"ve tried to communicate with the EBay seller that the RPi he sold me isn"t working, but I"ve heard no reply. Thus, I"m assuming I just have a bad RPi and nothing can be done about it. I"m contemplating buying another RPi, but at $100 I"m hesitating.

LCD display controlled by B4J Library jLCD_I2C which is converted from https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/raspberry-b4j-i2c-hd44780-lcd-driver.61123/ classes (a BIG thanks to the author for developing).

Running Plugin Scripts Example:"node /volumio/app/plugins/system_controller/volumio_command_line_client/commands/setvolume.js 80" to set the volume to 80%.

Open a terminal (using f.e. Putty), create a folder /home/volumio/b4j, download the B4J-Bridge (wget http://www.b4x.com/b4j/files/b4j-bridge.jarhttp://www.b4x.com/b4j/files/b4j-bridge.jar), start sudo java -jar b4j-bridge.jar and connect from the B4J IDE.

Well, I was by a Micro Center earlier this week, and I picked their 3.5" TFT display. It works, and I like it! Thus far I"ve tested out wordgrinder for writing (both in CLI and GUI), and gpodder / VLC for downloading and playing a podcast. Basic controls worked, and it seemed that the interface buttons are on the screen in some cases. For VLC the play/pause buttons along the bottom were off-screen, but I could hit the space bar to pause. I think I read somewhere that holding down the alt key and using the mouse or pen allows you to drag the view of the desktop, as if looking through a camera viewfinder and physically moving around.

One reviewer on Micro Center"s site commented that the pins on the 3B+ were a bit long, and they do, in fact, appear to be longer than those of the 3B. As a result, the unsupported long side of the screen does sag a bit from its own weight. It does this on the 3B as well, but to a lesser degree, and the whole display sits closer to the USB ports and ethernet jack than on the 3B+. It"s not flush though in either case, so I think some support would be useful.

IIRC, the microSD card is said to be in a bit of danger if you try to remove the Pi from the official case while the card is still in it. There would likely also be a danger if you just used the base of the official case to keep the Pi steady, and put the display on top. It would be easy to knock it so that the Pi would start to separate from the base, putting pressure on that card. A different kind of case (DIY or not) would probably be a better choice, and one that supports the screen from underneath on the side opposite the pin connectors would be better still.