piCorePlayer Documentation

[mini11]

Check documetations

Added a new project to the piCorePlayer documentation "Add a 2.2 inch ili9341 spi display".

Thanks mini11 for documenting another of your projects.

Looks great, and works. I did a check with a new pcp 8.2 installation, following the documentation step by step. After that, I installed an IR-reciever with this tutorial and added two rotaries with the correspondending documentation.

Everything works fine.

[Greg Erskine]

Added a new project to the piCorePlayer documentation "Add a 2.2 inch ili9341 spi display".

Thanks mini11 for documenting another of your projects.

[mini11]

2.2 inch ili9341 Display overlay pcp 8 - part 2



Display 1 and 2 come twice - the first were too large

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2.2 inch ili9341 Display overlay pcp 8 - part 1

Hope, I understood. Here is the tutorial for ili9341 Displays with overlay for pcp 8.

index.md.txt

[Greg Erskine]

I am a hands on person, because usually my first and second ideas are usually wrong and also I am bad at communicating my thoughts.

I was thinking we should proceed like this:

Publish your ili9341 project as is. Include your overlay source and a link to the compile process. This is a valuable exercise for people.

Start a thread for this project. There is not much visibility in the documentation thread. We need feedback from others.

The screen overlay/drivers situation with the Raspberry Pi is very messy, there are usually many solutions to the overlay/driver issues.

Paul needs to be involved to determine if there is a correct location somewhere for your compiled overlay.

Raphy is the best guy for jivelite questions.

[mini11]

Go for it. I am happy to add whatever you decide to do.

I’m back again and I made it.
The tiny displays with ili9341 driver are now running under piCore 8.2. Made my custum overlay by editing an existing one and it works. Compiled it without errors.
It seems, when wiring the displays in the right way, the overlay lets run all ili9341 displays resolution 320x240.
If touch is needed, I use the according overlay (here ads 7846).
As the spotpear display is the same as the Waveshare displays with same driver, I suppose they work too.
Here is my question: Making the tutorial is no problem. But how will the users get the overlay?

Another problem: Using such displays with touch! PCP doesn’t provide a jivelite skin for that resolution. The qvga-skins are unusable for touch. I Installed the qvga-touchskin, but that occurs errors during backup (pcp bu).
Do you think it is possible to include qvga-touchskin in pcp repository?

[Greg Erskine]

Added project "Add an IR receiver to piCorePlayer".

Thanks mini11

[Greg Erskine]

Everything is OK here.

Maybe a cache issue?

[mini11]

Mistake in documentation page How to

Hi Greg,

I had a look at the documentation page, section How to. Clicking in left menu on Upgrade LMS there is an error:

Error: Secure connection failed


Same error occures when I click


It seems, that something goes wrong.

Browser is Firefox

[mini11]

Add an ir-remote to piCore part 3



Thats it

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Add an ir-remote to piCore part 2

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Add an ir-remote to piCore

Go for it. I am happy to add whatever you decide to do.

Here we go:
index.md.txt

[Greg Erskine]

Go for it. I am happy to add whatever you decide to do.

[mini11]

Tutorials

There are now two additional tutorials pending (ili9341 and spotbear spi displays).

The displays only work with pcp 6. For pcp 7 and 8 I tested several overlays, no match. Today I tried to create and compile a custom overlay, without success.

I don't know, if it makes sense, to publish tutorials for old versions of pcp. Before I do a lot of efforts to create the tutorials, please let me know, if you want to publish them nevertheless.

I have a tutorial how to add ir-recievers to pcp. There are many post in the forum, but I didn't find something about that theme in the pcp-documentation.

Let me know, if you like to publish it.

[Greg Erskine]

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