EP-0062

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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: 2*20 Stacking Header
  • control interface: SPI
  • work voltage: 5V

Package Include

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


Presentation


Overview



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:
Download.jpg


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.
File:2.2TFT tech1.png
1. Extract the device driver file

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


File:2.2TFT tech3.png
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.
File:2.2TFT tech5.png
File:2.2TFT tech6.png
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.

0. 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

File:2.2TFT tech4.png
File:2.2TFT tech8.png
File:2.2TFT tech9.png
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