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Is this the screen that is suggested for use when building a tinypilot? I seem to remember Sean saying he is using a better screen now? Does anyone know which one?
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the hat program reads from the hat eeprom to see which display is on the board. Most of these displays have no data output so you can not read from them to probe them in any way.
The other option is to run the hat.py script and pass the screen like "hat.py jlx12864" or hack the code also to force it if you don't have an eeprom. Otherwise it defaults to nokia because all the original tinypilot had nokia display with no eeprom.
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The display has one part number and the controller another.
I'm going to make it easier to use this display soon with a config file that gets updated from eeprom. This is because sometimes eeprom fails to read at boot especially with bad connector so this would help.
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Yeah the pinout on yours looks different to mine. What happens if you connect it according to the names?
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Nothing. I wonder if it’s just defective. I have another and I’ve done some reading. I will try again in the morning.