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EP-0062

  1. Raspberry Pi 2.2 Inch GPIO display (without touch screen)

Description

This product is End Of Life. The PI-TFT22A module features a 2.2'display with 320x240 16-bit color pixels. This PI-TFT22A module refresh it's screen rapidly because the TFT module communicates with raspberry Pi in a high speed SPI interface ,this PI-TFT22A module can be used as Xwindow port ,displaying images or video etc. it plugs right in on top of your Model A+, B+ or Pi 2 and fits as HAT.

You can download configuration-free image or configurable packages, adjustable brightnes [level 0 -255], HAT compatible and Onboard buttons, you can load kernel modules to support GPIO KeyBoard function, almost all GPIO available on this board [non SPI 0,GPIO 18,GPIO 24,GPIO23],Very easily be other uses, IDROM has built initialization data to support Device Tree boot.

Feature

*Character number: 320x240 *Screen scale: 2.2' *Refresh rate: >20fps *Weight: 23.9g *module scale: 66x57x12(mm) connect port: 220 Stacking Header *control interface: SPI *work voltage: 5V

Package Include

1 x Raspberry Pi 2.2 Inch GPIO display (without touch screen)

Presentation

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Overview

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Install Driver

Screen

*If it's the first time for you to use this LCD module , please download the device driver for Raspberry Pi from the following link:

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TFT-Drivers-Full-Pack-V0_5-20160331.tar.bz2


Upload it into your Raspberry Pi or Just download from your Pi, and use "tar" command to unpack it.

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  1. Extract the device driver file

*sudo tar -jxpvf TFT-stable-Build-20150424.tar.bz2 -C /

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2.Setup it up by editing /etc/modules file as following steps:

sudo vim.tiny /etc/modules

fbtft dma

fbtft_device name=rpi-display rotate=270 speed=64000000 gpios=dc:24,reset:23,led:18

There are some pictures showing how to set it up.

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3. Reboot the Raspberry Pi and you will see the details on the screen.

Keyboard

*It is easy to setup the keyboard,first you should install a software called "evtest" to detect the keyboard.

  1. Install the package evtest:

sudo apt-get -y install evtest

  1. Add following parameters to /etc/modules file.

gpio_keys_device pulldown active_low=0 keys=26:103,21:108,20:105,16:106

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2.Reboot your Raspberry Pi and open a terminal:

sudo evtest

Select "0" to set test mode and press the button on this module,the test information will print out

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