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Overview

The display is available from Amazon and other stores.

official-7.0

Disk Image Content

This disk image is based on the Waveshare HDMI 7" Disk Image.

WARNING! The screen is not rotated like in the previous disk images.

Installation and Configuration

Connect display to the DSI connector - blue side down at display side.

Connect display to the GPIO connector:

  • 5V (Red) to the pin #4
  • GND (Black) to the pin #6
  • SDA (Green) to the pin #3
  • SCL (Yellow) to the pin #5

Here are the steps which were used to create the Disk Image for the Raspberry Official 7.0" touchscreen.

Install the Headless Disk Image

  • Download the Waveshare HDMI 7" Disk Image
  • Write downloaded disk image to 8GB MicroSD card.
  • Insert a MicroSD card to a Raspberry Pi, power on, login using putty.

Configure Peppy Player for display

Edit the player configuration file

nano Peppy/config.txt

Set parameters:

width = 800
height = 480
use.display.backlight = True

Copy changed file to the defaults:

cp Peppy/configuration/config.txt Peppy/configuration/defaults/

Configure the touchscreen

Edit the system configuration file:

sudo nano /boot/firmware/cmdline.txt

Set the parameters at the beginning of the string:

video=DSI-1:800x480@60

Edit the Splash Screen settings

sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/splash.service

change the line to:

ExecStart=fbi -d /dev/fb0 --noverbose /home/pi/Peppy/splash/splash-800.png

Reset service:

sudo systemctl daemon-reload

Cleanup

sudo reboot

Test player functionality.
Cleanup:

rm .bash_history
touch .bash_history
history -c
sudo poweroff
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