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Review on Enhance Your Raspberry Pi Experience With ELECROW'S 5 Inch Touchscreen Monitor - HDMI Compatible With Multiple Devices! by Ben Dixon

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Want to know how to make this work without breaking wireless on a pi 3 w/ raspbian?

Product quality? 4 stars. The usb micro power port on it should be soldered better. A handy person should really put a drop of solder on either side to hold that baby in place correctly.If you just throw the previously mentioned config options in your boot.txt, you'll notice that it kills your wireless. Why? Reasons. Instead make sure you:Sudo rpi-updateProperly do your raspi-config options.sudo apt-get update && apt-get -y upgradesudo apt-get install network-manager-gnomeedit your /etc/network/interfaces to have eth0 and wlan0 literally only say auto eth0 and auto wlan0 respectfully.sudo rebootfollow the instructions from this awesome guy. [.]I got the driver from here: [.]I've found his calibrations were the most accurate for myself, but you can re-calibrate if you feel the need. Seems like the last 1/4" of this touch screen around all edges seems to be off. I may spend more time later on that to get it perfect, everything else closer to the middle of the screen is dead on.Again, this is what I encountered with a Pi 3 Model B using this 5" 800x480 XPT2046 Touch controller monitor running the latest version of Raspbian "Jessie." I do not own nor am responsible for the intellectual gifts of the above links. They're the real heros.

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Pros
  • ‎3.99 ounces
Cons
  • It may not support a wide enough range of HDMI devices