Questions tagged [pitft]
PiTFT is a family of TFT displays for the Pi including touchscreens.
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What have you done to make generic TFT touchscreen display work?
I made the mistake of buying a cheap 3.5in 480x320 TFT display from a Chinese retailer. its unbranded, customer service is awful, no software was sent with it. I was sent a file in Chinese that was ...
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Running framebuffer application over ssh with display on TFT
I've got a RPi 2 running Raspi OS 2020-12-02 with Adafruit 3.5" TFT display - the display is configured correctly and displays console messages and as well can display images, for example when I ...
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Error installing . install.sh on BTT PITFT50/ v2.0 with Raspberry Pi
I am trying to install the . install.sh file and I am getting the error below. I am trying to configure the BTT PITFT50 V2.0 on a raspberry pi and this is the last step in need but is not working.
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Show full boot messages which are shortened
I have set up one of those waveshare 3,5" TFT displays and it works well.
But on (re)boot the boot messages are somehow shortened by a dot in the middle of each line so the beginning and end of ...
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How can I revert back to HDMI view without access to raspberry pi display?
I've been working with my Raspberry Pi 4 Model B , primarily using a HDMI and monitor, but I have reached a point where I now require to use a 3.5" TFT Touchscreen.
I cloned the GitHub repo LCD-...
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Use Adafruit PiTFT as hat with Adafruit DS3231 in a case
I have a raspberry pi 3 A+ connected to an Adafruit PiTFT Plus 320x240 2.8" TFT + Capacitive Touchscreen and an Adafruit DS3231 Precision RTC Breakout for keeping time. Both are connected using ...
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RPi3 with SainSmart 5" TFT touchscreen doesn't work
I bought a SainSmart 5" TFT with resistive touch to attach to my Raspberry Pi 3 Model B. The display works fine, though I had to set an HDMI_CVT parameter in /boot/config.txt in order to expand the ...
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Looking for information about a generic 480x320 Chinese TFT display pictured in this question. Schematics, new ili9486 english spec
The picture was "borrowed" from What have you done to make generic TFT touchscreen display work?
I'm trying to write a driver to use the module from a Pico. I have a preliminary spec I ...
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How to get 3.5PiTFT and 2.8PiTFT to work on Raspbian Jessie 8?
Whenever I download Raspbian Jessie 8 and install it, it automatically works with 7inch display and a full up monitor through ribbon cable and HDMI cable respectively. However, when I plug in the 3....
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Pluging an Adafruit touchscreen on a HifiBerry DAC+
I'm trying to connect a Adafruit PiTFT 2.8" TFT 320x240+ touchscreen and a HifiBerry DAC+ on a Raspberry Pi 2 B. Is it possible? Do I need to solder the touchscreen card on the DAC+?
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Media Centre HAT Setup
I've tried setting up the Media Centre HAT from Pi Supply but cannot get the TFT screen to function at all. The touch control works out of the box (resistive) and the rotation of the touch controls ...
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Configuring PiTFT with Pi 4 / buster
I've gotten the PiTFT 2.8" capacitive touchscreen to display the console on my Pi 4, using the instructions at that link. However, I can't get it to mirror the HDMI output. I used the buster lite ...
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how do I use an raspberry pi 3 A+ with 3.5 inch touch gpio display(MPI3501)(ILI9486 based) [duplicate]
I have a 3.5-inch display(MPI3501)(ILI9486 based) and a Raspberry Pi 3A+.
The Datasheet-
https://www.jameco.com/Jameco/Products/ProdDS/2278271.pdf
Here are the specifications.
The library link-
github....
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Adafruit PiTFT capacitive touch not showing on i2c
I recently picked up one of the overhang versions of the pitft 2.8 capacitive touch and tried the easy install with the 640x480 mirror of HDMI in pixel/xwindows. But I was not getting capacitive touch....
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Is it possible to disable the boot messages and terminal on the PiTFT while using fbcp
I am using a Raspberry Pi 3, and I set it up with the Adafruit 3.2 resistive TFT screen. I am using the fbcp setup so that frambuffer0 is being copied onto the screen. I would like a custom image on ...
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How to have piTFT3.5 screen brightness 0 at boot
I have an Adafruit piTFT3.5 running on a pi zero running raspbian-light. For this specific project the screen brightness should be 0 until a python script tells it to turn on.
Right now I achieved ...
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TFT Buttons on SainSmart 3.2" LCD
Has anyone gotten the buttons to work on the SainSmart 3.2" TFT screens for Raspberry Pi? I have some ideas to make them call commands or Python scripts, but don't have any documentation from ...
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Is it possible to turn off my MHS3528 (ILI9486) TFT backlight?
I've got a TFT screen that uses the goodtft MHS35-show script.
The screen works, and hooray, that's great! Except...
It stays on, all the time, at full brightness. I would love to be able to turn my ...
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waveshare 35b on raspberry 3 : speed and colors
I'm trying to configure waveshare 35b touchscreen on raspberry 3.
I have 2 problems :
slow refresh rate
inverted colors (black is white)
Here is my config, (I do not need touchscreen, so it is not ...
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Sharing SPI Adafruit PiTFT and RFID RC522
I have a Pi Zero 1.2 connected to an Adafruit 2.8" PiFTF screen and a RFID-RC522 board. I also have a thermal printer connected to TX/RX, but I don't think this plays a part in my question.
The TFT ...
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Pi zero hat compatibility
I need help determining if these two devices are compatible on the raspberry pi zero w. I just got the adafruit pitft plus 2.8
https://www.adafruit.com/product/2298
Site says pins used are
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Is there a way to detect if a PiTFT display screen is connected?
I am trying to detect if a PiTFT screen is connected.
Is there some kind of GPIO pin I can probe and detect it to some extent?
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Pigrrl 2 using pi 3, pitft 2.8 shutdown button
I have an unused button on the pitft screen that I want to use as a shutdown button. I tried the steps on adafruit but it just won't work. I've figured out hotkeys but not how to trigger a safe ...
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startx -- -layout HDMI -layout TFT # at the same time?
This verbiage implies, if you want a desktop on both heads of a Pi(2) with a PiTFT hat, you just startx each desktop:
startx -- -layout TFT &
startx -- -layout HDMI &
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How to fix duplicate console when using TFT monitor?
Using a 2423 PiTFT monitor from Adafruit.
Trying to set up my Pi so that it displays a console without auto-login at boot while allowing me to run chromium-browser using xinit.
I followed the guide ...
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Kivy and 3.5PiTFT
I have written an application with Kivy that I want to run on my raspberry pi. I have a model 2 pi, a 3.5 inch PiTFT. I am connected via HDMI to an external screen. I followed the instructions for ...
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How to hook LCD to breadboard using T cobbler?
I'm not sure what I am doing wrong here:
Now I am a newb and I have watched 5-7 intro videos about the cobbler and breadboard, but they are always doing LEDs. I was under the impression that this ...
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PiTFT: Serial only works with HDMI plugged in
I am using a PiTFT 2.8" on an original Raspberry Pi B. I just reinstalled Raspbian and setup the PiTFT using the Adafruit easy install script to launch to console.
I have a python script that ...
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Saving image/GIF using a GPIO button
I'm running tv.giphy.com on my RPi, which shows random (or not) GIFs in full screen mode. I run the website in Cromium's kiosk mode. I have a PiTFT with 4 incorporated buttons and I would like to use ...
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ili9488 Display Color Problem
I have bought 2 tft lcd from this link: https://www.aliexpress.com/snapshot/8378816373.html?orderId=79915084513225&productId=32610719676
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How do I find which pins my TFT display is using?
I have a TFT Touch Screen Display from Tontec that I'm using for a project. According to the product description the display only uses 8 pins. However, the connector cable takes up 26 pins worth of ...
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Why does audio playback seem to depend on GPU memory?
I encountered a really odd behaviour with my Raspberry Pi B+, running a slightly modified version of Raspbian with a PiTFT screen from Adafruit. Because the screen cannot access the GPU I dialed down ...
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3.5" TFT Calibration Problem
I am struggling to understand what is going on with my (knock-off) Waveshare 3.5" TFT calibration.
For my application, I need to have the display and the touch screen rotated 180 degrees. Flipping ...
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PiTFT 3,5" Inverted X & Y
So for the last 3 weeks I have been trying to get this touchscreen(3,5" Resistive) to work properly, but I cannot, for the life of me, figure it out!
I have made a very simple SDL 1.2 program that ...
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Raspberry Pi 3 with SIM808, 7inch display module issues in communication (UART)
First my appologies about the title. Thats the best I could come up with.
The problem is like this
I integrated a SIM 808 module with Raspberry Pi3 and implemented a simple GPS get command to ...
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Problem connecting AdaFruit PiTFT to RPi 3 using DuPont cables
I have a RPi 3 and the AdaFruit PiTFT 3.5”. I’m trying to connect the screen to the Pi using Pimoroni male to female jumper jerky cables (DuPont cables) because I want it to be further away from the ...
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Qt Application crashing on Raspberry Pi 3 with Adafruit 2.8" PiTfT touchscreen
I have a adafruit PiTfT 2.8" 320x240 capacitive touch display running on a raspberry pi. I cross compiled my executable under linux, where I also cross-compiled qt. If I run the enclosed example ...
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Is there a limit on Raspberry PI's display size?
I have been using Raspberry PI 2 and 3 for the last year and a half with no problem. However, over time I have noticed that different sizes of display connected to the PI effected how my software ran. ...
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Raspberry Pi won't boot up after installing Adafruit's Jessie PiTFT image
I am trying to have my Raspberry Pi 3 work with an Adafruit TFT. I installed their Jessie based image (http://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-pitft-3-dot-5-touch-screen-for-raspberry-pi/easy-install), ...
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3,5" LCD display not work in raspberry pi
I have bought a 3,5" display from ebay, and I installed it onto my raspberry pi 3.
I installed the LCDshow drivers, but when it restarts the display is white.
I tried to start the gui, but it gives:
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ADC for the raspberry pi zero w
Does anyone know of an ADC that I can use for a joystick to connect to the raspberry pi zero w? I have the adafruit pitft plus 2.8 resistive touch screen installed and it uses all the SPI pins I think....
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Pi zero w and pitft plus 2.8 in and justboom amp zero phat [duplicate]
I need help determining if these two devices are compatible on the raspberry pi zero w at the same time. I just got the adafruit pitft plus 2.8
https://www.adafruit.com/product/2298
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RPi 2 and 3.95 TFT ili9488
I have bought a 3.95 inch TFTLCD for Raspberry Pi (ILI9488 from mcufriend) and I can't get it to work. I am just mildly experienced with Raspberry and Linux, but the way this type of screen was shown ...
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Run gpio script from startup to listen for button press and then execute command and bash script
I have this python script that is intended to run from startup and listen for a buttonpress. If there is a buttonpress (held for 2s) the gpio script should run two bash scripts. The python script runs ...
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Raspberry Pi LCD TFT not working
Well, I bought a Chinese LCD TFT touchscreen, 3.5 inches, but I cant get it working, because I cant find the drivers. The only thing it says in the back is www.mcufriend.com, but the page is not ...
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Buying a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ [closed]
I am working on a (time-sensitive) project using an RPi3 Model B, but I require as much computational power (for computer vision application). I heard that the new RPi3 Model B+ is out and has a ...
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Running pygame without X results in stuck black screen
I'm trying to run a Pygame app without using X. I have a Raspberry Pi 3 with raspbian Jessie installed with very few modifications.
The script I'm trying to run is the following:
#!/home/pi/.env/bin/...
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GPIO button to control backlight on PiTFT
I've got an Adafruit PiTFT with the buttons on, so I have the potential to use the 4 GPIOs wired up to the buttons to control stuff.
Now I followed the helpful tutorial, and have gotten the power-...
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Why are my fps so low with pi zero w vs pi 3?
So I have a few cheap 3.5 tfts that you can find online for around $15. I use the instructions here to get it working for retropie:
https://www.hackster.io/manuelfelipe_ramos/how-to-install-kuman-tft-...
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Has anyone tried connecting a adafruit hat board and an LCD Screen?
We use the Raspberry Pi 3 boards for an elementary school robotics program. We saw these cool Kuman 3.5" touch screens that said they were HDMI (which I assumed meant they connected directly into the ...
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