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Connection dies for e-paper

Open mgpepe opened this issue 5 years ago • 2 comments

Hi, can someone help with with this problem, I am a newbie so it might be something very simple.

When I run the example from waveshare like so, sudo ./IT8951 0 0 01.bmp I get the following data:

Panel(W,H) = (1872,1404)
Image Buffer Address == 119F00
FW Version = SWv_0.1.
LUT Version = M841_TFA5210
VCOM = -2.27V
IT8951_GUI_Example

I can then freely put other bitmaps, and test will execute and the images will display.

However, when I try to use the python example, nothing gets displayed. What is worse -- if I come back to the C code, and run the same command, I get blanks:

Panel(W,H) = (0,0)
Image Buffer Address == 0
FW Version = 
LUT Version =
VCOM = -0.00V
IT8951_GUI_Example

Since there is no test code for 10.3" display, I am using a randomly picked epd7in5b_V3 and modified the width and height. I see that the other displays using this hat are 6", 7.8", 9" but none of those are available with working code examples in this python folder.

There must be a pin that needs to be switched in order to get this going again, but I have no clue where to dig and what to try. I attempted to use the EPD Hardware reset function, but it didn't work

Any help is appreciated!

mgpepe avatar Jun 13 '20 21:06 mgpepe

Did you ever get anywhere with this Petar? I got my screen to display once, and from then on I'm getting the blanks as you mentioned. Wondering if my screen might even be broken?

matpalm avatar Oct 14 '20 11:10 matpalm

actually, nevermind. discovered the amazing python lib https://github.com/GregDMeyer/IT8951 so switching to that

matpalm avatar Oct 14 '20 18:10 matpalm