Waveshare 7.0 HDMI
Here is the display description on the Waveshare web site. The display is available on Amazon.
This disk image is based on the Waveshare 5.0" HDMI disk image.
Here are the steps to create the Disk Image for the Waveshare 7.0" HDMI touchscreen.
- Connect a display to the HDMI and USB connectors.
- Download the Waveshare 5.0" HDMI Disk Image
- Write downloaded disk image to 8GB MicroSD card.
- Insert a MicroSD card to a Raspberry Pi, power on, login using putty.
Edit the player configuration file: nano Peppy/configuration/config.txt
Set parameters:
width = 1024
height = 600
Copy changed file to the defaults:
cp Peppy/configuration/config.txt Peppy/configuration/defaults/
Edit a system configuration file: sudo nano /boot/firmware/cmdline.txt
Add the display configuration at the beginning of the line:
video=HDMI-A-1:1024x600@60
Comment out the line in the system configuration file: sudo nano /boot/firmware/config.txt
#dtoverlay=ads7846,cs=1,penirq=25,penirq_pull=2,speed=50000,keep_vref_on=0,swapxy=0,pmax=255,xohms=150,xmin=200,xmax=3900,ymin=200,ymax=3900
Edit the service file: sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/splash.service
Change the line to:
ExecStart=fbi -d /dev/fb0 --noverbose /home/pi/Peppy/splash/splash-1024.png
Start splash service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl start splash
rm .wget-hsts .bash_history
touch .bash_history
history -c