Tag: Waveshare

What we need

• Raspberry Pi 3/4
• 8 GB Micro SD card
• Waveshare 4.3 inch DSI Display
• Soundcard of your choice
• Power supply

Steps

Step 1 - Connect the display to your Raspberry Pi

• Connect the display with the supplied flat-cable to your RPi.
• For easy use, you can fix the RPi on the backside of the Display.

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.

If you need additional pins for other purpose, wire the pins 1, 2, 6, 19, 21, 22, 23, 26) and connect the HDMI-Plug with a HDMI Cable.

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------------------------