So I have a7" display what can I do with it

[Scott]

I have installed 2.2 Beta 7 thank you 

Oi 3+

DSI 7" display hot from Amazon

Installed with Dpi. 

I see the normal 'ScreeN' display but I would like to use it to interact with teh pi like shell, touch display bebop and so on.

Is this just a dimply for " screen" and nothing else? 

I hate to be stupid but I am.

Thanks

Scott 

[Craig]

Hey Scott,

Any DSI display will work so long as the resolution is 800x480 (most common).

HDMI is fully supported with the 2.2-Beta7 image as well (720p minimum).

The IPS panels on those are amazing compared to the tft/gpio displays.

DigiPi doesn't leverage the touch aspect, not yet anyhow.

You can plugin a USB keyboard and login to the display (hit ctrl-alt-f2), I do
this if networking fails for some reason.

It sounds like you got it figured out!

I haven't heard many complaints about beta7 so that might become
v2.2 really soon - let me know if you see any show stoppers please!

cool,
-craig
KM6LYW

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[Scott]

Thank you Craig 

So far things are fine with Beta 7. 

I understand that the display is limited to SCREEN only for now. 

For the DSI display I would like to see MAP use the display and update station information as well as SCREEN. 

While we are moving to a lap top like or tablet specification here where I can use a 7" or 10" dsi display to both view informaiton and type / edit files my major concern is have information I need to use Digipi displayed on the DSI screen. 

For my needs I need to finds an enclosure that allows me to mount the DSI display + the attached R PI to the lid of an enclosure. That is a stand off of 1.5 to 2 inches to allow the assembly to be protected but act as a integrated display / eventually User Interface. 

I am happy to take this one step at a time. 

I do agree Beta 6 and 7 improved the display tremendously. 

Given other threads about memory and Pi Zero 2W availability I wonder how hard it would be to make two releases of DPi: 32 B with sub 512 Mb limit and 64 B with sub 1 GB limit (more flexibility and OS functions). At one point I used to deal with producing such releases but that was long ago in a galaxy far away, 

Scott