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FT5406 touchscreen sends events but input does not work

I have a Raspi 3B with the official 7" touchscreen attached. The screen works (showed the under-voltage sign when attaching only the screen controller to a 2.1 A power supply, so I'm connecting ...
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Kivy on Raspberry Pi returning double on_press events

I have an RPi and official touchscreen running Debian Buster and Kivy v1.11.1 using the simple example at https://kivy.org/doc/stable/api-kivy.event.html it is returning double touch events for ...
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On-screen keyboard with app integration

I'm aware of matchbox-keyboard, but I'm looking for a more Android or iOS kind of keyboard solution. When selecting a text input, of type alpha or numeric, I would like the appropriate keyboard, text ...
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Raspberry Pi 3 doesn't detect USB touchscreen

I've been trying to get a touchscreen monitor to work with my Raspberry Pi 3. The monitor is 15", externally powered, and is to be connected via HDMI and USB for the touchscreen interface. The HDMI ...
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Getting touchscreen to work in raspbian / kodi

I got a HANNS-G HT231HPB touchscreen which I want to get fully working on raspbian and kodi. It seems to work in the normal lxde on raspbian, but when I start kodi I get no touch events. Can someone ...
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Problem configuring touchscreen for Raspberry Pi

I want to use this 3.5" adafruit touchscreen, so I followed this tutorial I ran the following commands from the link : curl -SLs https://apt.adafruit.com/add | sudo bash sudo apt-get install ...
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Touchscreen support

I just got a new 10" screen with capacative touch from chalk-elec and it has been working fine. The only problem I have is when I try to use the touchscreen it creates ghost touches and jumps and ...
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Touch Screen Interactive setup

Just starting out as a pi developer and I was looking for any advice anyone might have for getting an touchscreen to work with Raspbian? I need to be really restrictive on what a user can do on this ...
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Waveshare (goodix) touchscreen not working in PyQT eglfs (non-X11) application

I have a Waveshare 4" DSI round touch display, I am using Raspberry Pi OS bookworm to drive this display on a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B. I have the following line added to my /boot/firmware/config....
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Raspberry Pi touchscreen leftover graphics after a single click start

I have a raspberry pi, compute module 4 with an i2c touchscreen configured to start programs by a single click since the double click method doesn't seem to work well for me. There is no mouse or ...
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raspberry pi official display not working on bullseye

The 899-74666 containing a "Raspberry Pi Display V1.1" [edit] I've updated this quite a bit now and settled on rolling back to a Buster installation. I'll leave the question up incase ...
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Raspberry Pi 3 B+ with Raspberry Pi OS (32 bit) screen fades out while booting

I've installed the official 7" touch screen on my Raspberry Pi 3 B+. I used the Raspberry Pi Imager to put Raspberry Pi OS (32 bit) on a SD card and while booting, the screen fades out to a black ...
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How to control raspberry pi 4 GPIO pins by running android application in the rpi and in mobile?

I am trying to build a project based on IoT. My goal is to trigger relays connected to GPIO pins in rpi4 by using an android application running in rpi4 itself which can be accessed with an official ...
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Difficulty executing command when raspberry pi loads

I have a raspberry pi 4B attached to a 7" raspberry pi touchscreen via the provided ribbon cable. In my application, I have my touchscreen rotated 90° by using display_rotate which is working ...
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Raspberry Pi 4 7inch HDMI touchscreen issues

I am using 7 inch HDMI touch screen with Raspberry Pi 4. I am having below issues: I have connected the HDMI cable to the touchscreen and connected the mini hdmi to hdmi0 of pi. I have also connected ...
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Raspberry Pi white screen after several days what is the problem

I have a Raspberry Pi that is connected to a touchscreen via HDMI. After several days the screen becomes white and it does not work anymore. When you reboot the Pi it works again. The Pi is used to ...
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power problem with pi4 and 7" touchscreen

I have a Pi4 that I have connected to a 7" touchscreen. The touchscreen is powered by a microUSB cable, the Pi4 is then powered through the GPIO, per the instructions. I keep getting the low power ...
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Samsung Flip + Raspberry Pi 3

I have started to work with a brand new Samsung Flip digital paperboard (WM55H). This device works well with my laptop (WIN10) but i would like to have another PC connected to the screen in any ...
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Raspberry pi 3b+; buster touch events

I am a beginner with the raspberry pi and trying to get my hands dirty on RPi 3b+, OS- Buster, 7 inch HDMI- touch screen. I am trying to build simple gui with one button and one label to display a ...
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Touchscreen calibration: touchscreen does not cover full display

I have purchased an industrial touchscreen monitor that supports Linux through PenMount drivers. The VGA video output (via HDMI adapter) works perfectly, and the USB touchscreen is perfectly ...
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Large title bar buttons?

On the latest release of Raspbian, there's a new feature that allows you to change the UI settings to make it suitable for Large, Medium and Small displays. The setting for Large displays (among other ...
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Better mouse controls with touch screen?

I'm using the raspberry pi official 7" touch screen (The one supplied with this http://a.co/gOTsWDC I don't know which model that is) and a raspberry pi 3 model B. I've noticed two major problems, ...
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Touch functionality behaves differently with different screens

Edit: there is an update on the bottom. I managed to resolve one issue but the behavior changed to be more consistent, even though it still doesn't work properly. Problem: I am creating a kiosk to ...
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javafx 7" touchscreen blanking

I recently bought a Raspberry Pi 3 and the official 7" touchscreen. The goal is to run a JavaFX application that serves as a central point to control home automation services. While everything seems ...
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Issues with Kivy on Raspberry Pi 3 with 3.5 in Touchscreen

I followed every guide I could find on installing Kivy to Raspberry Pi. My touchscreen works totally fine. Trying to launch various Kivy demos will result in what seems to be a partial launch, but ...
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Brightness control or toggle of backlight on ads7846 TFT touchscreen?

I have a 3.5" ads7846 based touchscreen for my Pi from Waveshare. Is it possible to toggle the backlight and/or change the brightness?
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Raspberry Pi Zero and Waveshare 4 inch IPS screen

I've tried to install this screen, used the image on the supplied CD, and the little light just flashes 8 times, so I go back to NOOBS, reinstall, then download the driver they supply from their site, ...
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How to setup resistive LCD touchscreen over SPI

I've been following a guide for setting up an LCD touchscreen, without success. When the screen is plugged into the GPIO pins it just shows a white screen. After all my attempts it remains white. ...
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proper installation of 5inch lcd on raspberry pi B+ running PWNPi

I received this morning my new 5 inch LCD for my Raspberry B+, I have got a PwnPI 3.0 version. The LCD displays with a big black gap on the right side when connected for the first time. I figured it'...
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touch screen for the pi

I am trying to set up a touch screen for the pi. I am looking for a 20 in. or so touch screen. I will be mounting this in the kitchen and the 10 in. one is a little to small. Can I use any USB ...
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Raspberry pi model b waveshare spotpear 3.2 inch lcd touchscreen is not working

I'm working on a Raspberry Pi portable system and I'm using a waveshare spotpear 3.2 inch TFT LCD touch screen; I have followed the instructions on that page. I get the screen to work but not the ...
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eGalax Touchscreen support, without kernel recompile, raspbian OS

I have been using a custom compiled raspbian OS, with eGalax touchscreen support. The problem is every time there's some upgrade or a major version change in the OS or firmware, I have to recompile ...
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Getting a Mimo Monitor working with Raspberry Pi

This isn't a question, as I have finally figured out how to get this all to work. I've had to break the links because I don't have enough reputation. sigh. Instructions to use Mimo Monitors UM-710 (...
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Artillery [ ILI9341 ] 3.2" LCD Touch Screen White Display and Driver Problem

I bought this Artillery 3.2 Inch LCD Touch Screen Display Monitor: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32553185633.html?spm=a2g0s.9042311.0.0.27424c4dFky0Ok But it only shows a white screen, so I ...
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Disable touch on screen when dark

I'm running a pi3 with official 7 inch touchscreen and chromium in kiosk mode. The screen goes dark after a minute and wakens with a touch, which is what I want. But it also passes that touch to the ...
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Rotate screen and touch overlay on ViewSonic LD2455 connected to raspberry pi 4b running ubuntu 5.19.0-1015-raspi

I would like to rotate the screen and touch overlay on my ViewSonic TD2455 connected to a Raspberry Pi 4b (4GB) running Ubuntu raspi 22.04 5.19.0-1015-raspi aarch64. I have tried all the usual ...
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Touch issues with Pi4 and touchscreen

I'm just developing a software with react that is supposed to run on a Pi and is interacted by a touchscreen. The only problem is that the touchscreen is not working as intended. Sometimes it won't ...
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WaveShare display (7 inch) doesn't respond to touch, after playing YouTube videos in Raspberry PI 4

I have an issue with my WaveShare display (7-inch LCD with case) where when I connect it to my Raspberry PI 4 and play youtube videos for some time in the chromium browser, the screen doesn't respond ...
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How to use SPI touch screen with RPi?

I bought a SPI TFT 2.4" display with a resistive touchscreen from eBay (this one). The screen is ILI9341 and works fine with Python and displays what I want. But how do I make use of the touch ...
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Pi 4, 2 monitors with same display - screen layout changes not being respected

I have 2 HDMI touchscreens that I'd like to have with identical vertical displays. By identical, I mean I'd like the screens to be mirrored and show exactly the same image. The Screen Layout Editor is ...
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How do I rotate LCD touch panel on a Raspberry Pi 3?

I know this question has been asked many times, but I can't find a solution that works anywhere to rotate the official raspberry pi touch screen (not the display part as this is working, just the ...
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CM4 - no touchscreen

I had a Raspberry Pi 4 with a generic 7” touchscreen and it worked fine but it broke so I copied the system (LineageOS) to CM4 module, enabled USB and it works. Beside the touch function for the ...
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PI 4 Touchscreen unresponsive after first boot

this is my first post here. I recently got a Raspberry pi 4 B 2018, 64bits & 8GB ram. With this I have a touchscreen that I plugged in the "DISPLAY" ribbon cable socket. So far so good. ...
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touch 7" rpi display does not wake up when in console after rpi display goes blank

I am running Pihole+PADD on my Rpi with Raspberry 7 inch touch display on a continous basis. For power and screen save reason I have activated blank screen after 300 seconds through raspi-config, ...
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QT Creator - Raspberry Pi - 3.5" TFT - Could not initialize egl display

Please forgive my ignorance but I'm new to Raspberry Pi/Linux. I'm trying to make a touch screen app for the Pi using a 3.5" touch screen (xpt2046) and QT Creator (5.12.5). QT Creator is running ...
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Is it possible to connect two touch screens to the Pi 4

So I know the Pi 4 will support dual monitors out of the box no problem. I am wondering if it will support dual touch screens as well. If so is there any particular issues or configuration needed to ...
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No Y axis on Raspberry Pi TFT touchscreen

I have a TFT 3.5" display (this one), and I can only get one axis to work - that is, touching the screen moves the mouse along the bottom of the screen on the X axis only, regardless of where I touch ...
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Unable to run JavaFX application on Raspberry Pi 4B

I have developed one JavaFX touchscreen application with screen size 800x480 which runs fine on RPi 3 with the Raspberry Pi 7" Touchscreen Display in the default resolution (800x480). Now I am trying ...
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Vertical Match Box keyboard for Pi

I am looking for a vertical virtual keyboard utility for the Pi. I have a 5" touch screen display that is oriented vertically. I needs to show a keyboard on the display. What I really want is ...
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How to manually connect the 10.1" touch screen 4 pin FFC to raspberry pi 3?

I have this touch screen and I have a universal lcd controller board. However, the controller board doesn't come with a 4 pin touch input. From connecting a 7" raspberry pi screen, is it correct to ...
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