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The Waveshare 5.5-inch Capacitive Touch AMOLED Display is a high-resolution (1080x1920) screen designed for compatibility with various Raspberry Pi models and Jetson Nano. It features a durable tempered glass panel, 5-point touch control, and supports multiple operating systems, making it an ideal choice for tech enthusiasts and professionals alike.
Q**N
Good OLED
OLED works well, still need to test lowering the brightness and touchscreen. Seems well made
N**K
gorgeous display, great hardware, very fragile
I'm now on my fourth 5.5" 1920x1080 AMOLED Waveshare screen for a single project. I'm hoping to run the AMOLED off a Raspberry Pi 3, putting both in a self-designed and -printed enclosure (see picture), which will occupy 2x 5.25" bays. When the screen is working, the whole system is absolutely beautiful, with color and resolution comparable to a high-end smartphone and working capacitance input. Make sure you've properly configured your Raspberry Pi and/or workstation. Details can be found on the Waveshare wiki.I don't know why some people are saying it doesn't do full 1920x1080 resolution. It absolutely does. I can drive 1920x1080 with 90-degree rotation from both the console and Xorg by following the simple instructions on the wiki.Waveshare includes a great little set of bridges. I use two -- the HDMI-to-HDMI, and the micro-USB to USB-A. These are exactly what you'll need for interfacing with most RPis.That's the good. Now the bad: first off, the micro-USB power jack is inconveniently placed. A plug that goes to the left will interfere with the HDMI bridge. A plug that goes straight up will add to the total height, making the system difficult to enclose. You pretty much need a micro-USB plug which turns to the right, and makes the turn low.Much worse is the fragility of the device. The first arrived with a crack, and I got a replacement. I managed to crack the second pretty thoroughly and quickly. The third I treated very delicately, and the screen remains intact. After a few days of use, however, the screen no longer powered on, and plugging in the microUSB makes the green LED flash. The wiki claims that this means the USB power is insufficient, and a 2A 5V DC supply ought be used. I went ahead and hooked up a 2.5A 5V DC supply from a Raspberry Pi, and I get the same green flashing light with no display.I've gone ahead and ordered a fourth, making three that I've paid for. One I definitely broke myself. I'm not sure what happened to that third one; for now I'm assuming I somehow broke it, and thus not returning it, but we'll see how this fourth one goes.When it works, this is a great device. I'd just like to see it work reliably.
N**H
5.5 DOES work with Raspberry Pi, just not out of the box
Edit 2: I really liked waveshare for their hardware but now I like them for their response to inquiries and concerns. Giving another star. Their timezone is opposite from mine but they got back to me every evening with updates and suggestions.Edit 1: I'm updating my review because I screwed up. This screen comes in a cardboard box with foam cutouts for shipping. I had not realized that a small piece of foam had logged its self in the hdmi output slot. I was able to very carefully extract the foam using tweasers and bingo! It works.I still have some issues with the screen. It's hands down the prettiest compact panel I've ever seen. The trouble is the documentation. There really isn't any. There is a doc on the wiki for basic trouble shooting like screensaver, touch rotation, etc. Unfortunately there isn't anything regarding the pins. Furthermore, this doc wasn't linked to on amazon and you can't get this panel working for a pi without modifying the config.txt in /boot/ with text from this doc.It's frustrating because I know there have to be pins on here for power, ground, and probably even audio out for speakers. Nothing is labeled though and there isn't documention for pins so I can only use the headphone jack for audio and I'm forced to power via micro usb. That's really restricting when creating a portable design.Still, it's a beautiful display. Easily the best best panel I've even purchased and I've probably bought a dozen at this point.
D**D
It's 1080x1920, not 1920x1080
This is a very good display, but be aware: the native resolution is NOT 1920x1080 - that is, 1920 pixels WIDE by 1080 pixels TALL. Rather, it is 1080 pixels TALL by 1920 pixels WIDE - more of a phone display than a computer display. If you are using it as intended, with a flexible device like a computer or a PI this won't matter much, as those devices can adapt. But if you were thinking of using this for something inflexible like a sat receiver, set top box, DVD or BluRay player, or AHD to HDMI adapter (as I was), it won't work, and unfortunately there's no jumpers or strapping to set the rotation in hardware. Again, that is not what this was intended for, so this isn't a criticism, just information.
G**G
Amoled screen fell off...
Amoled screen fell off...
A**R
very nice high pixel density display with capacitive touch sensor
the AMOLED display has wonderful color gamut, a black input is black output, and the color is vibrant. worked out of the box with no special drivers or configuration on my Raspberry Pi 3b+. My only gripe is that my skin oils result in a wild diffraction effect on the display which is easily solved with a screen cloth, but still an oleophobic coating would be nice to perhaps minimize this effect.
T**M
Beautiful screen
Using it for a Rasp Pi project - looks great and works well.
J**R
Gorgeous display! Gets insanely hot!
This is probably one of the most beautiful AMOLED displays I've seen outside of an iPhone. The construction is nice, well thought out, and clearly designed to have a 3D printed case around it. Ideal for a personal project.One small problem: areas of the display get up to 120 degrees to the touch. Like, burned my finger when I rested it for 5 seconds on a hot spot. It's a combination of two things: lighting up the OLEDs at full power (white area of the display) and proximity to certain areas of the underlying main board. This is a rather tragic flaw to an otherwise gorgeous display.Configuration on a Raspberry Pi is either easy if you're a Pi veteran or frustrating if you're a Pi newbie. You are very much editing your Pi's config.txt to tweak HDMI output to the display's specifications. This means that you can't arbitrarily unplug your Pi from this unit and then connect it to another HDMI display. It's best to SSH into the unit, make config changes, and restart.
A**X
Exactly what I was.looking for.
The vertical.format of the videomis great! The touchscreen and the screen itself are very responsive and good. If you want to start an open phone/tablet , I'd start right with this screen and the RPi.
A**R
received in time and worked as expected
very satisfied ! (discard my question asked here, I used another computer and the touch feature worked, probably the usb port with my first computer is not working )
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