Touch Screen

[G8GKQ]

Hi Bob

The card does not need to be formatted before you write the Raspbian Jessie Lite image to it with Win32DiskImager. It will do the formatting and put one boot partition (FAT32) and a system partition (ext4) on the card. There may be some issues with 64GB Cards - sorry, I do not have one to test.

Has anybody else out there tried a 64GB card?

Dave, G8GKQ

[wb6kwt]

Thanks Dave, I was concerned about using the 64Gb card and that may be the problem. I have a 16Gb card in my camera I'll use it and see what happens.

Bob

[M0YDH]

I have the white screen here and am getting cheesed off. Earlier posts on Twitter show my unit with the nice blue and green button squares and having not gone into transmit. I put an aerial wire on breakout board #12 which is apparently pin 32 per the instructions. When I pressed TX, the event was marked by information on the tablet in Putty and the screen going white. If I stab at different parts of the screen some events appear in Putty. [See appeal for help elsewhere on the forum - 53 people have and no-one's replied]. The cable is fine on the back of the LCD and the clamp is fragile.

I did connect the camera to a Pi 2 with desktop and checked it worked as nowt was coming out of the HDMI cable and adapter set [probable waste of money and notable that the old salts feature the camera mounted in close to the computer stack on their Twitter triumphs]. It took some still photos which was progress so I know it works and how to connect the ribbon cable.

I really want my expenditure in parts and time rewarded with a transmitted picture. ATV is a rare thing. That ugly DATV picture turning up on my minitiourner and tablet will be the very first one I or any of my clubmates will have ever seen.
73
David M0YDH

[G7JTT]

Dave I did have issues with my Chinese screen which was all down to the ribbon cable and the clamp have you tried to remove it and refit it making sure the clamp is in tight and the cable is all way in ? If the clamp is damaged you may be able to wedge a thin piece of card to keep the ribbon cable in ?

Hopefully you'll get there John

I have the white screen here and am getting cheesed off. Earlier posts on Twitter show my unit with the nice blue and green button squares and having not gone into transmit. I put an aerial wire on breakout board #12 which is apparently pin 32 per the instructions. When I pressed TX, the event was marked by information on the tablet in Putty and the screen going white. If I stab at different parts of the screen some events appear in Putty. [See appeal for help elsewhere on the forum - 53 people have and no-one's replied]. The cable is fine on the back of the LCD and the clamp is fragile.

I did connect the camera to a Pi 2 with desktop and checked it worked as nowt was coming out of the HDMI cable and adapter set [probable waste of money and notable that the old salts feature the camera mounted in close to the computer stack on their Twitter triumphs]. It took some still photos which was progress so I know it works and how to connect the ribbon cable.

I really want my expenditure in parts and time rewarded with a transmitted picture. ATV is a rare thing. That ugly DATV picture turning up on my minitiourner and tablet will be the very first one I or any of my clubmates will have ever seen.
73
David M0YDH

[G8GKQ]

I did connect the camera to a Pi 2 with desktop and checked it worked as nowt was coming out of the HDMI cable and adapter set [probable waste of money and notable that the old salts feature the camera mounted in close to the computer stack on their Twitter triumphs]. It took some still photos which was progress so I know it works and how to connect the ribbon cable.

Hi David

Sorry to hear that you're having problems. I have used an HDMI cable to extend my Pi Camera for more than a year and never had any issues. What you do need to check is that it is a high quality HDMI cable. All the grounds need to be connected, and they often aren't in the cheaper cables.

Not sure why your screen has died - it sounds as though the touchscreen is still functioning. Can I suggest that you try using the console (ctrl-c while the screen is running, and if the console doesn't appear type

Code: Select all

/home/pi/rpidatv/scripts/menu.sh menu

. Then select Desktop as the source, and 437 MHz, 333 KS/s and QPSKRF. Then you might get that elusive first picture on MiniTioune!

Sorry that I can't help you in person - I'm too far South.

Dave, G8GKQ

[F1CJN_alain]

The Tontec screen layout is right (landscape )but the touchscreen for selection is rotated 90° left, so it is not easy to use !
I did not find any working solution in the net, right now
73's
Alain F1CJN

[G8GKQ]

Alain

Have you tried display setup in Menu 5 from the Console? You can select the Tontec display there and then reboot to load the new settings. Let me know how you get on.

Dave, G8GKQ

[F1CJN_alain]

Thanks Dave
After a while, because I had made so much mods in my configuration files, I decided to have a new install (because I started first in the afternoon with an Rasberry foundation screen) and then switched to the Tontec screen.
Everything is ok now with the fresh install, waiting for the PC boards I ordered yesterday.
73's
Alain F1CJN

[G8GKQ]

Hi Alain

I'm pleased that the menu selection worked for you.

Dave, G8GKQ

[wb6kwt]

I've finally had success seeing the menu on the LCD, however, when I boot up the pi, I still get a black screen. This caused me to think the LCD was defective I returned the first one and purchase another but had the same black screen as the first one. I decided to try logging into the pi even though the screen was black and now I'm seeing the Linux screen. Any suggestions as to why I see the black screen and not the files loading. Is my situation normal?

Thanks,

Bob - wb6kwt