PITFT and RPi 3 Moderators: adafruit_support_bill, adafruit

[Speeegz]

Is the PITFT compatible with the Raspberry Pi 3? I just ordered and got my PITFT and enclosure, I was Hong to use it with my RPi 2, but now that the 3 is out I wanted to upgrade and use it with that. Please Advise! Thanks!

[adafruit2]

not yet - we'll blog once we port/test it over, it may take a while, no ETA

[jart]

Hi,

I can confirm that there is a compatibility issue at the moment. I have a Pi 3 and a 3.5" TFT. You have to boot a very recent version of Jessie (not Wheezy) and then the Pi 3 will boot OK, however after installing the Adafruit updates and rebooting, the Pi 3 does not boot - just get the green LED flashing 4 long - 4 short, repeatedly.

Looking forwards to the Adafruit update!

[kermit2061]

I have been able to get the 2.8 inch resistive PiTFT to work using the overlay file included with the latest Rasbian release.

Basically:

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wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/adafruit/Adafruit-PiTFT-Helper/master/adafruit-pitft-helper
nano adafruit-pitft-helper

Change the line:

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 overlay="dtoverlay=pitft28r,rotate=90,speed=32000000,fps=20"

to:

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overlay="dtoverlay=pitft28-resistive,rotate=90,speed=32000000,fps=20"

Finally:

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chmod +x adafruit-pitft-helper
sudo ./adafruit-pitft-helper -t 28r

Shutdown, connect the display and power up. Worked for me, including X and touchscreen. Not sure about extras (e.g. power button). Not sure if the Adafruit overlay provides different functionality (this uses the touchscreen TFT overlay included with recent Raspbian releases).

[garydavey]

Hi Kermit,

I am a very excited new owner of an RPi 3 (and pretty new to Linux too), and I would like to try out your suggestion. I am at the stage where I have gone through the detailed installation instructions in the https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-pit ... stallation document, and have paused at the stage where it instructs me to reboot.

Is this the point where I run your 2 lines of code:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/adafr ... tft-helper
nano adafruit-pitft-helper

and does the second line open up the file that needs the alteration?

I do apologise for my beginner's questions, but I do hope to get up to speed soon. I'll certainly let you know if this works for me!

[webline]

Hi Kermit,

great fix - thanks a lot.
Any idea how the overlay for the 3.5 (480*320) display looks?

Does this one looks OK (can't test it myself at the moment):

overlay="dtoverlay=pitft35-resistive,rotate=90,speed=42000000,fps=20"

and finally:
sudo ./adafruit-pitft-helper -t 35r

just a wild guess

[kermit2061]

NOTE: This was done from a CLEAN Rasbian install. Do NOT follow the Adafruit instructions, as I think these replace parts of the install with older versions (hence why they result in the system not starting).

As for other displays (3.5 inch or capacitive), I'm not sure I can help there. I cobbled this together from bits from the Raspberry Pi forum and https://github.com/notro/fbtft/wiki/LCD-Modules (some of his work is now included in the Raspbian, so no need to install additional overlays for this case).

The Adafruit power switch overlay is not installed as part of this, so unless you chase that down that option will have no effect. I'm thinking of using a different approach for that anyway, so I'll probably not pursue that.

[webline]

Yes - I saw at least 5 files that were downgraded by the Adafruit PiTFT install.

Will try to find a fix this weekend - hopefully someone else joins this thread... ;)

[garydavey]

I can confirm that this fix works on my RPi 3B and the 2.8" touchscreen :-)

Hopefully, this will speed up the arrival of an official ADAfruit image.

[jart]

Tried various versions of this fix (as given here and in some other forums) for the 3.5 TFT on the PI model 3 - none working yet.

[dantheflipman]

Attempting to get it to work with their 2.2" screen. No dice, Guess I'll have to wait for a fix =/

[Mylesmemeh]

Hello Kermit,

did you have to do anything else to get your screen to work, any other settings or anything like that?

sorry to bug you, just I have exactly the same spec hardware and it does not for the life of me seem to work!

Thanks in advance

[SpoonMaster]

I too have tried a few different things to get the PiTFT 3.5 working, but with no luck. The pitft35 overlay mentioned on the RPi forum (https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/view ... ft#p921666) doesn't seem to work for me.

I've also tested the 2.8 and that seems to work following these steps (viewtopic.php?f=47&t=91779)

I even tested a bunch of the different overlays in /boot/overlays just to see what'd happen on the pitft 3.5, but again, no luck there.

[mjculross]

See updated/replacement post at https://forums.adafruit.com/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=91209&p=465452#p465452 for most up-to-date info . . .

Mark J Culross
KD5RXT

[mjculross]

[ updated 18:30 20160319 - rearranged a few steps before posting, but still had a few out of order, now fixed ]

First off, let me say that I appreciate everyone else that has done any preceding legwork, which then allowed me to collect & present this compendium of instructions . . . I give all credit to those who came before me . . . my minimal contribution was to just gather it all in one place !!

The attached file contains the step-by-step instructions that I successfully used to enable everything (PiTFT 2.8 resisitive touchscreen & the rpi-power-button) on an RPi 3 running the latest Raspbian Jessie.

Feel free to pass this along and/or link to this anywhere else in the forums. Hopefully, this will aid Adafruit in making an official image available.

Mark J Culross
KD5RXT