Raspberry Pi 5-inch Waveshare HDMI touch screen setup
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- A short tutorial video showing how to setup and calibrate a Waveshare 5-inch HDMI touch screen on your Raspberry pi.
Website address for the drivers:
www.waveshare.c...
Data and pinouts etc:
www.wvshare.com... 
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I managed to work on with my raspberry Pi3. Touch screen works fine.
Once you install don't use sudo ./LCD-show command (otherwise you will get kernel panic), just go to /home/pi/Downloads/LCD-show or whatever your file location. Open that folder and edit "cmdline.txt" file... from "root=/dev/mmcblkop2" - "root=/dev/mmcblkop7" . Then you give commands like dpkg.... and Sudo ./LCD-show. it will reboot and touchscreen will work with raspberry pi 3 (jessie installed via noobs)
and me with this solution work at my pi 3 :D thanks mate :D :D
Thanks mate
I should read the comments as long I was watching the video, I am getting the "kernel panic".Now what ?
idk how you figured this shit out, but thanks
Hi, I have tried the same thing and am continuing to research to get this working, do you know if this doesn't work with Kali Linux? I currently have a Raspberry Pi 3B as well...if anyone could help, it would be amazing. I have been working on this for 2 days now and have bricked my SD card about 5 times now.
I just want to say how thankful I am for this tutorial. I bought the screen a while ago and could not for the life of me figure out how to set things up. I followed your tutorial and without skipping a beat--it's running. Thank you!
Wanted to say Thanks, got it up and running in no time.
+ETA PRIME Glad to have helped out!
Thanks so much for this walk through - I've had the screen for a while but never bothered to try and set it up until now. Worked perfectly.
This tutorial is still applicable after 5 years - and works also for the Kuman 5 inch display 👍 When I tried to calibrate the screen as shown in 10:34 I ran into an error message "Failed to execute child process "xterm" (Raspbian 10 "Buster"). I solved it by copy & renaming the lxterminal as follows:
cd /usr/bin
sudo cp lxterminal xterm
Thanks for the video, just a tip. If you are the user pi you are already in /home/pi so you just have to type cd Downloads , and an other handy feature of BASH is when you type the first letter and then TAB you can cycle true the folder and filenames. So cd T [TAB KEY] would give you This_is_My_Long_Named_FolderName. When you have mutiple files you can type the first 2 or 3 letters and then the TAB key :)
Yes, the Tab key is very useful! It was painful watching you type in those complicated file names.
Rene Snijders my god, this was driving me insane. thank you for your comment.
Your welcome :)
after a year of sitting in a box, your video now has me up and running and config'd like a champ, I would add, if your using noobs, that you do have to change the config file from 2 to 6 to keep from having a kernel panic, but other than that. Thank you bro.
Good job! I was getting frustrated because my screen only showed 4 out of the 5 inches I ordered, but after the first reboot (after adding the numbers) my screen works! Thank you so much!
I looked all over for information. Your RUclips video was great! Instructions were clear and up-to-date. The LCD driver was different for the Raspberry Pi3, but you mentioned that it might be. It works and I now have no problems.
Thank you very much for your effort.
+Larry Lovell Glad to have helped!
Basically have to repeat what ETA Prime said, was up and running without any time at all, much appreciated.
Excellent video and worked for me with no flaws.
I really like this screen.
Difficult to get a case, but what matters is it works.
Thanks for the great information.
Thanks for your great tutorial. Just what I needed to get the Waveshare screen to work. Great!
This was very helpful! The best tutorial on here for this 5" LCD Screen Thankyou!
Many thanks - I bought the 1024x600 - so by just using that driver - all was well.
I truly appreciate the info
Good tutorial! Couple of extra tips:
The /boot/ partition path is accessible on the SD card in Windows, so if you don't already have a display you can edit the config.txt file there (just be careful to maintain the correct line break characters - use Notepad++ if unsure). Also, in Terminal, if you start typing the first few characters of a path or filename and hit the TAB key, it will autocomplete it for you.
And quick question - are the GPIOs still accessible?
Some of the GPIO's are used for the touchscreen, but some are left unused.
I'll check out what pins are actually used by the screen and post an update.
+Darian Cabot
The GPIO socket on the screen uses the first 26 pins on the GPIO header. I'll have to dig further to see how many are actually used, but the socket on the screen is broken out to labelled solder pads (they look like they are arranged to suit a surface mount header) so it is possible to solder some jumper wires or a header onto these pads to use them if needed.
+TERRAOperative ok, that that's cool. The screen module's obviously getting it's power from the GPIO and I'm guessing touch input might be via the SPI or I2C communications.
+Darian Cabot
The power is definitely from the GPIO (and there is also a micro USP port for power on the LCD PCB for powering it if you aren't using the raspi).
The screen drivers activate the SPI bus setting in the config.txt, so that's how it's communicating.
Here's the info on the pinout, looks like most of the pins aren't used and are just passed through to the breakout pads.
www.wvshare.com/product/5inch-HDMI-LCD.htm
Thank you very much! I've had this screen for ages and this is the best handy approachable guide i've found. Cheers!
If you want audio but it's disabled, enter "dtparam=audio=on" into the config.txt without quotes. I was able to achieve audio output through the Raspberry Pi's (I have the 2B+ model) audio jack.
This was an awesome video! I just have to say thank you for taking the time to make this. It was spot on and I was able to configure it quick and easy. You took all the guess work out of configuring it! Thanks again!
Great job! Only I suggest you should try using the "TAB" key for autocompletion of file names :)
Thanks for the good video. You saved me a lot of time and effort trying to get this screen working correctly.
Great, works with Ubuntu Mate, couple of minor changes, path has username in it instead of "pi" and the touchscreen calibration menu item ends up in the control panel. Also the download location is slightly different and the link is on a different part of the page now.
Should add that if a mistake is made while adding the changes to the config.txt file and can no longer boot up the os the boot into recover and you can correct the change there by selecting os and clicking the edit config.txt button at the top.
I recommend installing the drivers Before rebooting. I rebooted after changing the config.txt file and crashed the platform. All I got was a white screen. I'll give it another try keeping this in mind.
Great tutorial , did as per the vid and got everything up and running....cheers
Much appreciated. This saves a lot of digging around.
thanks you, I tought that my screen it was broken... thanks a lot 😆
Thank You!!!! Very good tutorial. It was working in no time! I applaud you!
There's also a new official capacitive multi touch lcd shield on the way for the rpi. Just saw it on Engadget the other day. Wonder if the setup is similar. Krish.
Thanks for this great tutorial! Worked like a charm on my Pi1 with jessie and the 5inch HDMI LCD V2 - XPT2046 Display! On the Pi one with my LCD i cant use the HDMI Adapter which was included. The Ports are not on the same height....
Just a heads up...
For those of you who have moved your OS to an USB external drive, or USB flash drive, you'll need to edit the commandline.txt file that is in the LCD_Show folder and replace root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 to whatever your device is (mine is root=/dev/sda2)
If you don't do this BEFORE you run LCD5-show, you will NOT be able to boot, and you will need to pull the sd-card and fix it in another system.
Other than that, great video, and should work for people using SDcard for their OS
BTW, there is now a NEW driver for jessie
how do we know whats are device name? im running Kali on my raspberry pi 3 and im stuck on the kernel! please help
Dude...this saved my life...thanks..great tutorial..
Hi, thanks for solving my problem, I got to work my screen prefectly!
It work with Raspberry Pi3!
I also had the problem with kernel panic
first I'tried to change the root partition to 6 but it doesn't work. -> here the doc: raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/40854/kernel-panic-not-syncing-vfs-unable-to-mount-root-fs-on-unknown-block179-6
I have installed NOOBS->Raspian jessie on a Pi 3
BUT my root partition is no. 7 !!!
i do that mate but at start the lcd show me half and then show me all the lcd wyh do this?? ty
You saved my night. thank you million times
it works with Kodi/XMBC too!
rovivocom
had to change mine to 7 also and it finally worked!!! thanks!!!
best tutorial ever. nice job mate
Mate you are a legend, thank you so much
Regards
Dave.
Thanks for the instructions. All worked well up (I had the issue with the kernel panic but sorted that out with help from the comments below) but now I have issues with calibrating the touch screen, which just wont work. Any ideas?
same problem
@@adosq me too! the first time i installed and touchscreen worked fine. but then y coudnt use any more, so i format the SD card and reintalled all OS. Now, i have the same problem like u guys. did u solved this problem??? if u know pls tell me. tks!
Mine installed fine on RPI 2 with Jessie all commands worked great but after I go to calibrate and then touched the 4 calibrations points the calibration is still off to the bottom right every time even though I was very accurate. Any ideas please? Really appreciated as used for home automation server and need to keep an eye on things.
Thank You, was really struggling to follow other instruction, but this helped me out a lot :-)
+XspiritofmozartX Awesome, good to hear that others can understand my ramblings! :D
Nice one...thanks mate...working perfectly...great video.
Perfect instructions. Thank you very much.
Thanks for a very useful tutorial.
THANKS A TONNN MATE !!!!!!!! THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH!!
Awesome directions! thank you!
just noticed your LCD is a knockoff. The waveshare site shows your exact device as a knockoff of their screens.
The issue with the waveshare drivers is they don't release the source, so your display will eventually stop working, and you'll be stuck waiting for them to build the new kernel modules for raspbian, and if you're running something else, like OSMC, you won't be able to use the touch capabilities.
Thanks for the video, my screen finally works fine :)
omg thank you so muuch i thought id spend money for nothing but thanks to you good sir it works :)
Thank you mate, it works like a charm
Thanks , I found the screen works well with the pen but not by the touch of a finger. Is it the same for others?
Exactly what I needed! Thanks!!
thanks for this video... able to resolve my issues for the touchscreen... thanks to JUSTIN WAGG also for sharing.... after changing the settings , able to function the touchscreen.... i'm using NOOBS... had edited "cmdline.txt" file... from "root=/dev/mmcblkop2" - "root=/dev/mmcblkop7" ...thats it...
this helped me so much! Thankyou!
Wow, thats awesome .But I have a question, I have a 7 inch touchscreen and everytime I want to used it with my raspberry I have to set the calibration touchscreen (With the same app that you are using) my question is, do you know any way to set the touchscreen calibration with the terminal, or something to make it work everytime ?
Thank you again , and greetings from Colombia :D
I like the screen but i'm having difficulty installing the drivers. If I follow your instructions it ends up working but the pointer isn't accurate, even after screen calibration. If I install the raspberry image that comes with the drivers it works perfectly. But then the os is a little different and I've tried to install kodi and that didn't work. Using just a raspberry pi image without the touch screen drivers installed I can install kodi. It's all a bit weird. I may try following the waveshare steps and see how it goes. Thanks for posting all the same.
Thank you. Ok my 5-inch touch screen .
great video mate, helped heaps
thanks, now i can use retropie with a full screen !
for anyone having any issues just install lubuntu from ubuntu flavour maker and install it on pi2 or pi3 and get the latest drivers from the link given in the description. it will work flawlessly without any issues. also lubuntu is better than raspbian.
Why am i not able to access the whole screen for display? I am not getting the whole 5 inch display. Please post a solution for this.
Thanks for a very helpful video though.
Thanks mate! You made my day!
very, very, very good tutorial, thanks for all :)
it worked like a charm...thank u sir!!
hi where did u got the file?
it is no longer in the wiki and i can't find it any where else
thanks this video was really helpful
Thanks for your video, it's works fine !!!
Please help me!
I got (from Xinput): min_x=117, max_x=3992 and min_y=3743, max_y=156
and still the touch function didnt' work, I'm using XPT2046 in RPi 4 Model B.
TIA
Thanks for video. I bought Waveshare 7" touch panel. Configured the Raspi 2 for full screen. But couldn't configure the Raspi 2 for touch screen....:/
wait until the pi has booted, just unplug replug the usb and touchscreen should work. thats all i can do with it, as soon as i try to install kodi or anything else, it broke again ffs
great tutorial. Thanks
It worked thank you
How bright is this display? Readable in direct sunlight?
thanks, i think i can get my touchscreen to work with this tutorial as my screen appears to be simmilar. i also had the problem that there was zero documentation included by the screen. not even a brand! thats ebay for you :P
Thanks, got the screen working but I has vertical lines going through it....any thoughts?
You are the best!!
For everybody confronted with the "Kernel Panic"-Error on NOOBS: Due to some research I figured out that NOOBS itself is the cause of the problem. If you download the jessie-image and mount it via Win32 manually (faster anyway), everything works fine.
+Trevor Bevan Hi Trevor, you can download the latest jessie-image on the raspberrypi.com/downloads/ site. If you want to use your already used SD-Card, I suggest you download the tool "SDFormatter" and format the card (the tool should explain itself - be carful to format to FAT32). Afterwards download and start the "Win32 Image Writer". Select the downloaded jessie-image on your harddrive, click write - aand done, insert the card back in your pi.
Now do the usual update-stuff (expanding file-system, sudo apt-get update, ...).
Then you need to install the drivers like descriped in the video above. IMPORTANT: There is an additional driver for jessie on the driver website. You need to download that package and the normal package. Afterwards, extract both in the same directory (first the 150620 and afterwards the 151020 so that the old data gets replaced by the new). Installation is analog to the video above.
Unfortunately, I have no clue how the driver works with the pi 3. Could you give some feedback whether it works or not? Would be greatly appreciated :P
When you download the driver is that how the touch sensor works. You said the screen will work before you download it.
The screen will display video with no drivers needed as it is just a HDMI display.
You need the drivers if you want to use the touch screen function.
Thanks, that's what I was wondering about.
I did the same as you in the config.txt and the recalbox started perfectly. But when I try to start a game, it starts with everything out of frame again. what should I do?
Your video tutorial was very good for a revived Debian Linux occasional. Was trying a sunfounder.com 5 inch LCD screen Touch. The maker's code did not work, nor did another later code for similar from Waveform. So on further look, discovered a good all in one OS image file for Raspberry Pi from RaspberryPi WIKI. It incorporates the drivers in the OS for the LCD screen. Boots up, and the Calibration Screen program is there etc. .. The link is: raspberrypiwiki.com/download/RPI-5-INCH-HDMI-GPIO-TOUCH-TFT/ Thanks again
I can’t find the lcd show download
Everything works fine until I install the drivers with cd ./LCD5-show. Then it takes a while for my pi to reboot, and when it does it goes to a console-esque screen with just a blinking cursor in the top left corner. This is the second time it did it, I had to reformat the mini sd card the first time. Please help!
Men thanks 🙏🏼 you are awesome 👏🏼
The file exists no more. Does anyone know wäre to find the LCD show file?
I don't know why but I needed to change the calibrator app to work under root.
Changed the app command to
sudo /bin/sh -c "xinput_calibrator; cat"
then worked fine.
how's that hdmi adapter called, i've been looking for one everywhere
+Jorge Alberto López Bórquez I'm not sure... I wouldn't mind a slightly longer one myself, maybe one with flat-flex ribbon cable like those flexible SLI cables for connecting graphics cards together. It would make it easier to stack more boards between the LCD and the Pi..
+Jorge Alberto López Bórquez Stacked HDMI connector
+Jorge Alberto López Bórquez can't find any that are sold separately from the screen
I follow the instructions exactly, and get an error: "end kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown block(179,2)
Mine rebooted and now is stuck at the multi-color screen. You know how after the reboot, a full screen multi-color blob is stuck on the screen. My large monitor, that is. It still shows nothing on my 5 inch LCD display.
I can't thank you enough 💕👍✌️
awesome vid, but i added the line "sudo ./LCD5-show" and crashed on reboot.
'end kernel panic - not syncing VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(179,2)
You are using Pi3, aren't you? same for me
no. raspberry pi 2
+Ken Scott when I got that error I had to reinstall the software fresh.
+Ken Scott Try reformatting your SD card and maybe even use a different SD card. There are known issues with some SD cards that cause strange problems like this.
Does this work for the 5 inch HDMI LCD (B)?.
I tried doing this but the raspberry pi did not reboot as if the SD card was not connected, I would just get a red power light and had to format the SD card.
Do the drivers replace your kernel with a custom one? I need my kernel to be 4.x.x, and my chinese kedei screen drivers come with a custom 3.x.x kernel. Just wasted two days trying to compile a newer version with a diff file they provide, but with no success.
why do i get the error saying unknown option after i type the last step? tried this for hours today
I'm using a RPi 2 B and this isn't working for me. I installed everything, rebooted, etc, it's plugged in correctly, but when I run the calibration, I am not getting any touch. I am using the provided stylus, even. The screen works fine, but do you have any idea why the touch isn't working? Is this not designed for the Pi I have?
does the touch screen can work with only human finger?
I also have a similar touchscreen( 7 inch ) is there a way to control its brightness?
is it possible to run a "desktop" app like musescore,a sheet music editor? I'm asking if that program works well in that reduced display
Steps to fix my VMS mount blah blah blah issue.....right before 8:17 point in the video, copy your /boot/cmdline.txt file to the folder you are in "sudo cp /boot/cmdline.txt cmdline.txt" to get rid of the bad cmdline.txt file. After that, I just followed the instructions from 8:17 on with no problems. Sorry....not technical so I probably messed some wording up here?!?
Now can we do this for Recalbox i still get half screen?
I have a probleme after control
sudo .LCD-show after re start it gives me an error message 2.855782j............ unknown block ( 179.2 )
Raspberry pi 2 use with the system version NOOBS 1.5
+karim ALLAMTAOUI I have the same problem!
Me too, I’m using a pi zero
the wiki says that system with NOOBS won't work.
I got it working on the Zero using Thiago's comment below
I finished all the steps and when I go to calibrate screen, it says no devices to calibrate or some shit
same problem for me
How is the display turned on/off? I am thinking about moving the raspberry into a 19" rack with a display for my house automation. However I wouldn't want that the display is on the whole time due to its power consumption.
Best would be if the display dims or goes into standby mode and goes on again at an touch event.
Is that possible with that display, did you try that?
+Joerg Zdarsky The OS on the raspberry pi can be set to turn the screen off just like any other screen.
There is also a switch on the side that you can use to manually turn it on and off IIRC.
i have 7inch touch screen. so last 'sudo dpkg -i xinput-calibrator_0.7.5-1_armhf.deb'... plz 7inch code
not play... plz 7inch code
im getting an error where it says no calibratable devices found
I have 7 inch hdmi resistive display of waveshare .but it's touch not working in gud manner , when I go from left to right ..cursor comes from top to bottom. I tried so many ways but it's not solved..plz help me...it's too frustrating ..thanks in advance