Raspberry Pi with Adafruit PiTFT screen
Some early testing of the Adafruit touchscreen for Raspberry Pi.
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Join For FreeJust followed the steps in the tutorial to get the modified kernel installed with support for Adafruit’s PiTFT and it all worked great.
What I’m going to be using it for is to monitor status output from Direwolf as it receives/sends packets, so will be running it in text mode, and ideally I want to get Direwolf and LinBPQ starting together at boot, and outputing to the console.
I’ve almost got the startup script working (following suggestions here), but I might take a look to see if I can redirect output to one of the virtual terminals and have that output to the screen (like discussed here). Some more things to take a look at. :)
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