Waveshare 5.0 New - project-owner/PeppyPlayers.doc GitHub Wiki

Overview

Here is the display description on the Waveshare web site. The display is available on Amazon.

This disk image is based on the Waveshare 3.5" HDMI disk image.

Installation and Configuration

Here are the steps to create the Disk Image for the Waveshare 5.0" HDMI touchscreen.

Install the Waveshare 3.5" HDMI Disk Image

• Connect a display to the GPIO and HDMI connectors.
• Download the Waveshare 3.5" HDMI 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/configuration/config.txt

Set parameters:

width = 800

Copy changed file to the defaults:

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

Configure HDMI display

Edit a system configuration file: sudo nano /boot/firmware/cmdline.txt

Add the display configuration at the beginning of the line:

video=HDMI-A-1:800x480@60

Configure the Splash Screen

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-800.png

Start splash service

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl start splash

Calibrate a touchscreen

Disable the player and splash to release the display for calibration program:

sudo systemctl disable peppy
sudo systemctl disable splash

Power off/on the system. Run the calibration command:

sudo TSLIB_FBDEVICE=/dev/fb0 TSLIB_TSDEVICE=/dev/input/touchscreen ts_calibrate

Enable the player and splash:

sudo systemctl enable peppy
sudo systemctl enable splash
sudo systemctl start peppy
sudo systemctl start splash

Cleanup

rm .wget-hsts .bash_history
touch .bash_history
history -c