FREENOVE5 Inch Touchscreen Monitor for Raspberry Pi 5 4 B 3 B+ A+, 800x480 Pixel IPS Display, 5-Point Touch Capacitive Screen, Driver-Free MIPI DSI Port

I recently built a music streamer based on the Raspberry Pi mini-micro computer, and it was a nice replacement for a very old (way over 15 years) Squeezebox Classic streamer that was beginning to suffer its own version of digital dementia. I used a Raspberry Pi 4B, with an InnoMaker DAC HAT for audio line-out to my stereo receiver, and after an easy assembly and setup, it worked marvelously, though I needed to use a phone app to actually control it.So, I decided to take a step up and add a 7" touchscreen. While there is an "official" Raspberry Pi screen, this one was about half it's price, and had decent reviews... so I pulled the trigger on it and a week later it was in my hands.Physical setup was quite easy, as the basic standoffs, ribbon cable (three different sizes... I used the short one) and other hardware was included and easy to identify. The touchscreen included a link to a "tutorial" PDF on physical assembly of the touchscreen to the Raspberry Pi, and it was straightforward enough to easily get that job done. And finally, hook up power and RCA cables to the Raspberry Pi and boot it up.And that's where it became a challenge, partly because I'm a bit of a Noob at this. The system booted just fine, and would play music from the server, but the display was NOT the music streamer interface I'd expected. It was instead the command line interface to the Raspberry Pi, and I am most definitely not experienced enough with that to even contemplate finishing the setup through that. So, what next? A lot of internet sleuthing, and finally learning that I had not yet installed "JiveLite", but that turned out to be an easy thing to do through the PiCorePlayer interface. Once that was done and I rebooted, I got into the PiCorePlayer setup screens and quickly discovered that something was very wrong: no matter what setup selection I made, I ended up with something else instead. Grrrr!After some trial and error (lots of error, actually), I discovered that the touchscreen orientation was set up rotated by 180 degrees from the display screen. At that point, a lot of internet sleuthing ensued, I discovered that there is a dearth of step-by-step guides on how to set it up properly. I also discovered that I could connect a usb keyboard to the Raspberry Pi, and with the up-down-left-right arrow keys manage to work my way through the basic setup to get to a working PiCorePlayer display. But I still had the upside down touchscreen.I could probably have managed to get the guidance I needed from the manufacturer website, but I was impatient and plunged ahead to eventually find that I needed to change some settings in the /boot/config.text file (Yikes!!!). Fortunately, those setting changes were relatively simple, involving the "display_rotation=n" and "lcd_rotation=n" commands. It was trial and error, but what eventually worked for me was to use "lcd_rotation=0" and display_rotation=0". While I could have done this through the ssh terminal access, it was (for me) easier to simply remove the microSD card from the Raspberry Pi, mount it on my PC, and then simply edit the config.text file using the NotePad app. Once properly configured, the display and touchscreen mapped together most excellently, and the rest of setup was a breeze.Properly configured, this touchscreen is a great addition to a PiCorePlayer setup, and it is very easy to use. A bonus with this touchscreen is that it doesn't add much to the power demands of the system. Without the touchscreen, I was able to measure the load at a little over 500 mA from the power supply. After adding the touchscreen, I expected to add another 1,500 mA, but was very pleasantly surprised to see that it was consistently less than 1,000 mA, even with the screen at its brightest setting.The negatives about this... the information provided with the touchscreen did not adequately address the setup required to make it work properly. A simple step-by-step guide would have helped immensely, and I doubt that the problems are just confined to setup with the PiCorePlayer. Also, if you ever need to remove/replace the necessary SD card, you will find it nicely hidden by the ribbon cable connector between the Raspberry Pi and the touchscreen. I ended up using sturdy tweezers to remove and replace the card, and that was not as simple as it sounds, especially for re-inserting the card.Would I buy this again, knowing what I do now? Certainly! It works great and the price is right. But better instructions on setup from the manufacturer would have greatly reduced my frustration level at several points during my setup adventure.

Excellent, easy to install (just plug-and-play) no need for drivers or libraries. Minimalistic and clean look. Fast delivery.

Perfect for what I wanted, I have only a single complaint so far. The ribbon cable for connecting to the RPI is significantly longer than it should have been. I had to design the case to accommodate the extra loop of ribbon cable sticking out.Besides the length of the cable, I have one other concern. The instructions included seem to indicate that some revisions of this had pogo pins on the board that were meant to make contact with the _top_ of the RPI's header (looks like they would be used for power). Clever, but wow is that a terrible design (it would mean the screen would not work if the RPI weren't mounted directly to the screen or if a non-RPI SBC with different pinout was used)! Fortunately, the board I received did not have these pogo pins.

I use this as the display for my 3D printer (Klipper). With the touchscreen, I can do everything directly from it even though I'm usually doing things through Mainsail instead. Having the Pi mounted to the back of it makes it a nice looking and convenient "all in one" setup. I do suggest getting some right-angle adapters for your connections - it looks much better than seeing random cables sticking up and out before curving back.I've had no issues with it, no dead pixels, and it required no additional setup or configuration. I actually removed the factory display from my Neptune 3 Pro because it's redundant once you've got this.I personally left the plastic piece that comes on the screen connected; it's meant to be pulled off, but it has no bubbles and is applied well enough that it just seems like a screen protector.

For the price and expediency of arrival you can't complain. It works as it should, right away. Advise for others: make sure you get the right standoffs if you're putting Hats, etc. M2.5. Not M3, which I now have an abundance of.

Very pleased with this thing, so far. Worked perfectly out of the box for my Raspberry Pi 4 Model B, didn't have to fiddle with any code. Display is sharp and crisp, and it recognizes touch accurately across the whole screen with no dead spots. It comes with a small button on the top right on the PCB that controls the brightness, which has 10 settings (if you count 'Off' as the first one). The only minor complaint I have is that I wish it could go a bit brighter. In a low-light environment, it's maximum brightness is okay, but I think in brighter light environments it could do with being brighter.

Successfully mounted on a Raspberry Pi 2B, only difficulty was the DSI cable, the pinch connector was difficult to properly insert and lock down on the cable. Once assembled screen worked great, but installed DSI cable restricts access to micro SD card slot. Not a fault of the screen but a design flaw of the Raspberry PI.

This display looks great, it’s very crisp and viewing angles are superb as you’d expect from an IPS. The touch capability works great with no extra setup on my Rpi4 running bullseye.Don’t make the mistake I did and try to use it with multiple cameras connected to the CSI port on the raspberry pi. It doesn’t work with the Arducam camarray hat. It’s just an issue of crowded I2C pin usage, not a problem with this display at all.