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Review on For Raspberry Pi 3B+ 3 by Carta Gutierrez

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Older drivers cannot control the backlight

. The screen was packaged well and fitted without any problems. There is no support on one corner of the screen but that is not the biggest problem. There is a link in the instructions included to an outdated driver repository. It took me a while to figure out why I couldn't get the screen to work. It turns out that the included repository for the driver is no longer compatible with the current kernel. I have that finally figured this out just to get to the main reason i reset the stars, inability to reset the backlight express When screen blanking is enabled, the screen goes black, but the backlight stays on and continues to emit light from the screen. When you turn off the Pi, the screen goes bright white, so it has to be turned off to turn off the screen in order to turn it off. I was planning to use it as a small home automation controller and don't want the backlight to be on 24/7. For this reason alone it will be returned. As an aside, I wasn't able to get the screen and HDMI out to work at the same time as the listing describes, but I don't really need that functionality for my application.

Pros
  • The Raspberry Pi 3.5" touchscreen can adjust the resolution via software, which is also available for directly connecting the Raspberry Pi 3 B+ without additional power supply. (Native RPI screen resolution is 320 x 480).
Cons
  • It was possible to choose a newer model