Tag: Jivelite

Installation

Jivelite can be installed on piCorePlayer via the [Tweaks] page on the piCorePlayer web interface.

Jivelite [Settings] > [piCorePlayer] screen

• This display is perfect, if you want to build a small device-like player or net radio showing the title or broadcast information.
• Together with a RPi Zero W and a HiFiBerry MiniAMP or small mono DAC/amp Audio Amp SHIM (pic below), you get a complete solution.

Steps

Step 1 - Connect the display to your Raspberry PI

• Plug the display directly on the GPIO pins of your RPi and connect the HDMI plug with an HDMI-adaptor.

What we need

• Raspberry Pi 2, 3, 4 or piZero WH
• 8GB Micro SD card
• Waveshare 5 inch display, resistive spi-touch with HDMI-adaptor
• Optional: Some jumper wires, female to female
• Powersupply, 5V, >= 2,5 A
• PC or Laptop, Putty installed

Preparation

• Plug the display directly on the GPIO pins of your PI and connect the HDMI plug with an HDMI-adaptor

More information

• Waveshare 5.5 inch Touch AMOLED Display
• Download piCorePlayer
• Burn piCorePlayer onto a SD card
• Determine your piCorePlayer IP address
• Access piCorePlayer via ssh
• Edit config.txt
• piCorePlayer aliases
• piCorePlayer CLI
• Basic vi commands
• Raspberry Pi config.cfg
• Waveshare 4.1 TFT + piCorePlayer + Jivelite
• Documentation / fb / fbcon.txt

Steps

Step 1 - Prepare SD card

• Put a fresh pCP image on to the SD card—see Burn piCorePlayer onto a SD card.
• While the SD card is still in the laptop/pc:
  • Enter wifi credentials in wpa_supplicant.conf.sample and “save as” wpa_supplicant.conf.
  • Add the following lines to config.txt, in the Custom Configuration area at the end of the file (between the Begin-Custom and End-Custom lines).

#---Begin-Custom-(Do not alter Begin or End Tags)-----
gpu_mem=128
disable_splash=1
avoid_warnings=2
hdmi_group=2
hdmi_mode=87
hdmi_timings=400 0 100 10 140 1280 10 20 20 2 0 0 0 60 0 43000000 3
display_rotate=3 #270 degrees
#---End-Custom------------------------

• Today nearly every device is fitted with an IR remote, so why not a piCorePlayer?
• If your display has no touch or you do not want to control your device by a smartphone, an IR remote is very helpful.

What we need

• Raspberry Pi
• piCorePlayer 8 with Jivelite installed
• A running display connected to RPi
• An TSOP4838 or similar IR receiver like OS-0038N
• 3 jumper wires, female to bare wire
• Soldering iron, solder, some heat shrink tube
• A JustBoom IR remote

• Today nearly every device is fitted with an IR remote, so why not piCorePlayer?
• If your display has no touch capability or you do not want to control your device by a smartphone, an IR remote can be very helpful.
• Since 4.19 linux kernel the original LIRC uinput drivers have been removed.
• We need to configure IR keytables to get IR remotes running with pCP.
• We use a cheap NEC Remote.