Waveshare ESP32-P4 WiFi6 Touch LCD X"

andrew_NH · February 3, 2026, 4:06am

Waveshare has released a large number of ESP32 based screens in the past few months and each one is an improvement on the last. This one is truly amazing.

It has a case milled out of a solid aluminum block plus dual microphones, built in speaker and a huge touch screen.

Waveshare offers this P4 screen in 7", 8" and 10.1" models but they are all a similar price so the the 10.1" is the way to go…Waveshare has released a lot of P4 boards lastly and they all use MIPI displays and similar touch screens. This makes it fairly easy to get each screen working.

In this case I just used the WAVESHARE-P4-NANO-10.1 driver to build a working config.

github.com/agillis/esphome-modular-lvgl-buttons

example_code/waveshare-esp32-p4-wifi6-touch-lcd-10.1_display_modular.yaml

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# Substitution variables used through the codebase
substitutions:
  icon_font: mdi_icons_40
  text_font: nunito_20
  text_color: white
  bg_color: black
  button_on_color: "ep_orange"
  button_off_color: "very_dark_gray"
  icon_on_color: "yellow"
  icon_off_color: "gray"
  label_on_color: "white"
  label_off_color: "gray"
  button_text_color: "white"
  # LCD back light modes - Code in backlight_time.yaml
  # Set Day mode - starts at Sunrise - screen at 100%
  touchscreen_daytime_brightness: "100%"
  # Set Evening mode -  starts at Sunset - screen at 50% (may need to be brighter for some screens)
  touchscreen_nighttime_brightness: "50%"
  # Set Night mode start time (default is midnight)
  touchscreen_night_hour: "0"      # Hour for night mode (0-23)

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andrew_NH · February 3, 2026, 4:14am

Waveshare also offer this screen with a battery. At that point it would basically just be a tablet. You could buy and Android tablet for the same price (around $85) but you would not get the extreme customization potential of ESPHome!

There are not any good pictures of the back of this screen online. You can see it’s very flat. The back is an aluminum plate that matches the case.

Did I mention there is a camera in this thing too? I have not gotten that working yet.