Is this a good screen?
Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2016 2:38 pm
by Kevin_rpi2
Re: Is this a good screen?
Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2016 4:44 pm
by W. H. Heydt
I have a very hard time believing the specs as presented. I've been working with 3.5" displays (Adafruit PiTFT and Neosec TinyLCD 35) and they have a resolution of 480x320. They're limited to about 20 fps due to the limitations of the SPI interface. To get higher resolutions and faster refresh rates, you need to go to an HDMI connection. The display you've linked to *appears* to be running off the GPIO connector, so the claims are...dubious, at least to me.
Re: Is this a good screen?
Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2016 4:55 pm
by BMS Doug
It isn't SPI based,
it uses the GPIO DPI setup.
step 3. Config file to enable HD-TFT
Add the following line:
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framebuffer_width=800
framebuffer_height=480
dtparam=spi=off
dtparam=i2c_arm=off
enable_dpi_lcd=1
display_default_lcd=1
dpi_output_format=0x6f015
dpi_group=2
dpi_mode=87
hdmi_timings=480 0 16 16 24 800 0 4 2 2 0 0 0 60 0 32000000 6
display_rotate=3
There won't be many i/o left for other things.
Re: Is this a good screen?
Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2016 12:29 pm
by Kevin_rpi2
W. H. Heydt wrote:I have a very hard time believing the specs as presented. I've been working with 3.5" displays (Adafruit PiTFT and Neosec TinyLCD 35) and they have a resolution of 480x320. They're limited to about 20 fps due to the limitations of the SPI interface. To get higher resolutions and faster refresh rates, you need to go to an HDMI connection. The display you've linked to *appears* to be running off the GPIO connector, so the claims are...dubious, at least to me.
OK,thank u so much.I will try it.
Re: Is this a good screen?
Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2016 12:31 pm
by Kevin_rpi2
BMS Doug wrote:It isn't SPI based,
it uses the GPIO DPI setup.
step 3. Config file to enable HD-TFT
Add the following line:
Code: Select all
framebuffer_width=800
framebuffer_height=480
dtparam=spi=off
dtparam=i2c_arm=off
enable_dpi_lcd=1
display_default_lcd=1
dpi_output_format=0x6f015
dpi_group=2
dpi_mode=87
hdmi_timings=480 0 16 16 24 800 0 4 2 2 0 0 0 60 0 32000000 6
display_rotate=3
There won't be many i/o left for other things.
OK,thank u for your reply.I will try it.