Today after some reading I decided to go with Raspberry pi 5 8gb for Home Assistant. Then I mounted PI5 on a SLI touch screen. Thit is the screen:
ED-HMI3010-101C
The issue I have (bare with me as I am not advanced) is that screen has backlight but screen is not showing anything. I connected hdmi and PI os on. I tried to flash last PI5 OS and PI works, screen isn’t.
Then I tried to flash HA and also works but no screen.
Screen is not showing nothing on both situations even if it turns on (has backlight). Only the HDMI out is working and I can see what I am doing.
When I try to flash the screens manufacturers recommended OS (any of the 3) to SD (with official Raspberry pi imager), the Raspberry does not turn on at all and stops to a message:
Yeap! Same error with all 3 firmwares.
Maybe I am doing something wrong? I am installing to SD through official imager, inserting to PI amd same error…
I also contacted manufacturer.
What I do not understand is the next:
If you install the formware for screen in SD and run it and let’s say screen works, after formating the SD to install HA, isn’t the screen firmware missing from the sd card??
Went to page 28 and it seems that copying and pasting the commands given is not working because some parts are missing. (Advanced user will understand why and what. I don’t…) So:
This gets my screen to turn on, but the touch screen functionality isn’t fully allowing me to tap to move cursor. I can only tap and drag and get that click and drag functionality. Did you experience this as well?
It’s odd, I rebooted a few times and all the sudden Landscape mode was working for me. Before, the landscape mode was glitching and when I tapped the screen in one spot, the mouse would click 90 degrees rotated, transformed to the corresponding spot in the portrait orientation. Not sure what happened but I hope it just stays fixed.
On the other hand I could use the Container but I think that add-ons and other features are not supported without a workaround.
The third option would be to change the screen to an hdmi one, which I would like to avoid if possible as I have the screen on a cabinet with the RPi nested on its back.