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Raspberry Pi 7” Touchscreen Display

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Raspberry Pi 7” Touchscreen Display

Buy Here  Display Installation Guide

Install Virtual Keyboard* Other Pi Accessories  image

The 7” Touchscreen Monitor for Raspberry Pi gives users the ability to create all-in-one, integrated projects such as tablets, infotainment systems and embedded projects. The 800 x 480 display connects via an adapter board which handles power and signal conversion. Only two connections to the Pi are required; power from the Pi’s GPIO port and a ribbon cable that connects to the DSI port present on all Raspberry Pi’s.  Touchscreen drivers with support for 10-finger touch and an on-screen keyboard will be integrated into the latest Raspbian OS for full functionality without the need for a physical keyboard or mouse.

*Note: Your NEW Rasp Pi 7.0 needs you to Add a Virtual Keyboard….

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Technical Specification:

image  7” Touchscreen Display

image  Screen Dimensions: 194mm x 110mm x 20mm (including standoffs)

image  Viewable screen size: 155mm x 86mm

image  Screen Resolution 800 x 480 pixels

image  10 finger capacitive touch

image  Connects to the Raspberry Pi board using a ribbon cable connected to the DSI port

image  Adapter board is used to power the display and convert the parallel signals from the display to the serial (DSI) port on the Raspberry Pi

image  Will require the latest version of Raspbian OS to operate correctly

 

Features and Benefits

image  Turn your Raspberry Pi into a touch screen tablet, infotainment system, or standalone device.

image  Truly Interactive - the latest software drivers will support a virtual ‘on screen’ keyboard, so there is no need to plug in a keyboard and mouse.

image  Make your own ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT) devices including a visual display. Simply connect your Raspberry Pi, develop a Python script to interact with the display, and you’re ready to create your own home automation devices with touch screen capability.

image  A range of educational software and programs available on the Raspberry Pi will be touch enabled, making learning and programming easier on the Raspberry Pi.

Kit Contents

image  7” Touchscreen Display

image  Adapter Board

image  DSI Ribbon cable

image  4 x stand-offs and screws (used to mount the adapter board and Raspberry Pi board to the back of the display

image  4 x jumper wires (used to connect the power from the Adapter Board and the GPIO pins on the Pi so the 2Amp power is shared across both units)

NOTE: THE RASPBERRY PI AND POWER SUPPLY ARE NOT INCLUDED IN THIS KIT AND ARE SOLD SEPARATELY.
Compatible With:

Raspberry Pi 3 Model B

Raspberry Pi 2 Model B

Raspberry Pi Model B+

Raspberry Pi Model A+

 The display will technically work with the Model A and Model B boards (connecting it to the DSI port on the Pi board), however the mounting holes on the back of the display will only line up with the newer board design (A+, B+, Pi 2 and Pi 3).

 

How to Install the Matchbox-Keyboard for your Pi

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1. Connect a physical keyboard to the Raspberry Pi (or SSH into it if that’s your thing.)

2. Connect to the internet via WiFi or Ethernet.

3. Open the terminal.

4. Type sudo apt-get install matchbox-keyboard

5. Let the program download & install (takes 30s-1min depending on your connection.)

6. Exit the terminal & reboot your Pi.

7. The keyboard can be found by clicking the Menu -> Accessories -> Keyboard.

 

Operating System Support

In order to be sure you’re running the latest version of Raspbian, connect your Raspberry Pi to the Internet and then open LX Terminal.  Type ‘sudo apt-get update’ to download the latest version of the OS.  Once that’s complete, type ‘sudo apt-get upgrade’ to apply the download to your Raspberry Pi.  That way you’ll have all of the latest drivers and software needed to support the touch screen display.

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  • in reply to e14 Contributor

    image Notice to everyone!

     

    Please Create a new discussion and mark as a question under Raspberry Pi for any problems with the display.

    This will help others as much as yourself.

    Thanks in advance.

    Clem

  • in reply to e14 Contributor

    Interesting update on the power management issues with the Pi 3 - I tried a Anker iPhone charger/poer pack - and guess what? it worked perfectly with the black and red jump cables.  Very odd but at least that gets me going.

  • Just got my new screen and it looks great - but there seems to be serious power management issues with it.

    I've got a new Pi 3 with the latest Raspbian OS.  If I connect two separate microUSB power sources to it, one for the screen and one for the Pi - all's well.  It works fantastically well.

    But I cannot get it to work with the 5v and Gnd jump cables.  It boots halfway through and then I get a rainbow screen and it starts again - basically it goes into a continuous loop.  I tried various different cables and power sources.  Also tried powering through the Pi and also tried through the expansion board.  Same result.  I also tried adding the SDA and SCL cables but that did nothing.

    I then tried to power the Pi through the USB jump lead, basically from the expansion board USB port to the microUSB on the Pi - and that didn't work either.

    So for me that's a serious issue as this is supposed to help me with my Pi Robot project - but if I have to power the screen and the Pi separately plus power the servos and motors - it makes it useless.

    Any suggestions on how best to power the Pi and the screen together would be a great help.

    Thanks

  • Hey guys,

    Im making a Laser cut case for the Screen [Open Source As Always].

     

    I noticed the touch digitizer is larger that the screen on one side, [By about a cm] Does the software allow me access to this area, it would make a great place to have some hot keys [for stuff like keyboard, home etc].

     

    I can see you have already made a good quality screen housing, ever noticed the digitizer overlap?

  • Here is my experience:

    For the first time I tried NOOBS (NOOBS_v1_7_0), I usually dump the latest Raspbian image to the SD, I powered up the RPI 2 B.  Daisy chaining the power to the LCD then from the LCD's USB to the USB Micro on the RPI.

    It came up perfect!!!

    I ran through the Raspbian setup on NOOBS.  I updated & upgraded, rebooted several times.  All still perfect image Then I did a "fdisk -l"

    6 partitions, image 1.2GB still being used by NOOBS, so NOOBS ran well, but I'm not leaving all that wasted space.

    So I pulled the SD out and imaged it with 2016-02-09-raspbian-jessie, put the SD card back in the RPI, powered up, as before, and

    NOTHING, LEDs on the RPI, but pitch blackness on the Display (On my 5 inch screen, with no signal from the RPI, I, at least, get the  backlight).

    I know that all is setup right because nothing has changed.  Same cables, same RPI, same SD.  The only thing different is the Image.

    Here is what I did to get it working again:

    I booted using the HDMI and logged into the RPI.

     

    raspi-config # To get my keyboard setup to US

    apt-get update

    apt-get upgrade # got 13.5 MBs

    rpi-update  #####  <------- I haven't seen this mentioned in these comments

    #                This updated the kernel from 4.1.17 to 4.1.18

     

    I rebooted and everything is working again.  image

    I hope this helps!!!!!

  • Does the device driver have a timeout sleep? How does it detect the screen in the first place? If it is talking to the screen, and the response goes away, wouldn't it go into a disabled state until the screen comes back on line, or like unplugging the HDMI when things are running, with data going in the bit bucket.

     

    Jack

  • If I wanted to turn the screen off, but leave the pi on, is there anything wrong with putting a simple toggle switch into the positive cable running into the screen?

  • in reply to e14 Contributor

    Have iy watched my detailed videos or other peoples showing in detail the assembly, if it has never worked and your using the latest Jessie Rasbian then it may be worth looking again

     

    here are mine

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgPI0LK--zE <--

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEv32IAQVUI <--

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7s3R78u1FM <--

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1lua5mgrJs <-- LCD 7" Display assembly

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_ZAgMZ-COI <--

  • I'm having the same problem as the last two people.  I believe I have followed the instructions correctly, try to power the unit up, I can see the RP 2 B comes on, but the touch screen shows no indication it has power.  No blip on the screen or anything.  I took everything apart and reseated the ribbon cables.  Nothing.   Should I mail the board back in, or has anyone found a fix?

  • in reply to e14 Contributor

    Er, actually, testing it again... DOSBox won't do it at all.  Even windowed, the cursor sticks to the bottom corner and will not move.