4.3inch DSI LCD User Guide

Introduction

4.3inch Capacitive Touch Display for Raspberry Pi, 800×480, IPS Wide Angle, MIPI DSI Interface

Features

• 4.3inch IPS screen. 800x480 resolution
• Capacitive touch panel, support 5-point touch
• Supports Pi 4B/3B+/3A+/3B/2B/B+/A+. Another adapter board is required for CM3/3+
• DSI interface, refresh rate up to 60Hz.
• Supports Raspbian/Ubuntu/Kali and WIN 10 IoT, driver free.

User guide

Hardware connection

• Connect the DSI interface of 4.3inch DSI LCD to the DSI interface of Raspberry Pi.
• For easy use, you can fix the Raspberry Pi on the backside of the 4.3inch DSI LCD by screws

Software setting

• Download image (Raspbian, Ubuntu, Kali or WIN 10 IOT) from the Raspberry Pi website. https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/
• Unzip the archive to get .img file (The installation method of WIN 10 IOT is different, please refer to its website)
• Insert your TF card to PC by card reader, format it firstly
• Write the .img file to your TF card by Win32DiskImager or Etcher
• After writing, insert the TF card to your Raspberry Pi
• Power on Raspberry Pi

Rotation

To change the orientation of the display, you can modify /boot/config.txt file as below

• Open the file

sudo nano /boot/config.txt

• Modify it for rotating

• 90°

display_lcd_rotate=1
dtoverlay=rpi-ft5406,touchscreen-swapped-x-y=1,touchscreen-inverted-x=1

• 180

display_lcd_rotate=2
dtoverlay=rpi-ft5406,touchscreen-inverted-x=1,touchscreen-inverted-y=1

• 270

display_lcd_rotate=3
dtoverlay=rpi-ft5406,touchscreen-swapped-x-y=1,touchscreen-inverted-y=1

If you use Raspberry Pi 4, you need to remove the line: dtoverlay=cv4-fkms-V3D

• Save and reboot Raspberry Pi

sudo reboot

Install virtual keyboard

Open terminal and install it by the following command

sudo apt-get install matchbox-keyboard

After installing, you can click Accessories -> Keyboard to open the keyboard.

External guides

• Woring with Volumio
  

Software

• Panasonic SDFormatter
  
• Win32DiskImager
  
• PuTTY
  

Drawing

• 4.3inch DSI LCD 3D Drawing
  

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