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I have bought an adafruit 3.5 touch display „PiTFT Plus with 480 x 320 resolution in the assumption that it would work with max2play.
In my case it doesn’t and I hope this is due to some simple omission on my part …
I have a Raspberry Pi 2 Model B with no additional boards attached and I am using a max2play image freshly downloaded from the website.When I start the Pi the display goes white, so it seems to work in principle. I then install the plug-in for the touch-display, select the 3,5 adafruit display and let the installer run. After a few minutes I restart when told to do so.
The Pi comes up and the screen now turns black, does not show a picture, however. The Pi itself seems to be working fine – I can access ist from the web-interface without any issues.
I played around with the installation of Jivelite and tried various things, but no luck …What seems a bit strange to me: Even though the installation of the display runs through, I do not get the screen „Basic settings“ on the display plugin and there still remains the prompt to install the 2.8 Inch Watterott display without any acknowledgement of my adafruit screen.
Any ideas, anyone? Some help would be greatly appreciated.
Hi!
It’s been a while and in the meantime I have played around a bit.I don’t know if this is of any use for anybody, but anyway:
On top of the max2play installation I followed adafruit’s „easy Install“ instructions for their screen (according to this link).
With this the screen basically works: It shows the Jivelite interface, the touchscreen works and everything functions mostly as expected. The only problem was that I could not get the screen resolution to a correct value – it was either too big or too small, but that seemed like a minor problem for someone who knows what he is doing …
Anyway: I would love to get a working solution (plugin) for this, because I have to keep my car’s dashboard in a half-disassembled state until I can fit my functioning Pi in its place.Hello Heiner,
that’s strange …
I do not get any error messages – the script seems to run in max2play exactly the same way that it does if I do it manually. The only difference is, that in m2p I do not get to choose screen orientation and resolution, but that may be on purpose from your part.
But then, after the installation seems finished I do not get any sign that the screen is working. E.g. no Max2Play desktop and no change to the display tab. The Pi (or Pis, since I tried more than one) do not show any difference to the display tab either, so there is no sign of a screen present. This happens before I even start to do anything with Jivelite.I do not really see where I could have gone wrong – I followed basically the same steps as with the 2.8 Watterott display and there it worked. More irritating: The manual install works fine, I just cannot seem to find a truly fitting Jivelite resolution.
Do you have any more ideas? Does it make sense to send you a copy of my SD-card?
Further reports – for whatever it is worth …
– Downloaded the Jessie image from adafruit: The display works flawlessly
– Downloaded fresh M2P-image. Installed the Touch-Display Plugin (Link): Nothing.
– Installed the display again, as in the instructions for older kernels: Still nothing.
– Configured Jivelite, updated it to the newest version: The screen blinks momentarily but stays black.
– Installed VNC and accessed the Pi remotely: I see Jivelite and can configure it on my PC. On the Pi, though: Nothing.What else could there be to do?
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2 hours later: I now use the m2p image with the adafruit installed manually (not via m2p). This way the screen works as expected and since I found a way to adjust the screen via VNC I now have a system that functions to my satisfaction.
Strange though, what is going on with the plugin here …I now consider the problem solved and I will put the Pi in it’s intended space in my car now.
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