Getting PiTFT touchscreen drivers into KivyPie?

[Dan Stoner]

There has been some interest in kivy-users group about using the PiTFT touchscreen for Raspberry Pi with Kivy.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/kivy-users/pitft

Is there any chance of getting the PiTFT drivers into KivyPie?

https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-pitft-28-inch-resistive-touchscreen-display-raspberry-pi/easy-install

Thanks,

- Dan Stoner

[skarbatable]

Hi Dan,

I have just released Kivypie version 0.6, which is now running Debian Jessie. PiTFT should be working by following Adafruit's steps you provide above.

I am a bit reluctant to integrate the official solution into KivyPie, because it uses apt pinning to replace the Raspberry PI firmware package. Can make it difficult to rollback or follow regular system upgrades.

But please, let us know if that works!

Cheers

Albert

[Dan Stoner]

I appreciate this!

We actually just finished our project using pygame but I will try to test kivypie again in the future.

Thanks,

Dan Stoner

[Dan Stoner]

Hi Albert, I'm going to try to test with 0.6.

Also... I noticed that this google group description still says "KivyPie version 0.5 has been released, "...

- Dan Stoner

[Dan Stoner]

I cannot get kivy working on PiTFT using KivyPie 0.6 and the AdaFruit DIY Installer script.

No X11 involved here, running from the console.

My kivy program does run, and I see touch and keyboard events from the touchscreen (this is all an improvement over my previous attempts), but I cannot figure out how to get the display of the kivy app to go to the PiTFT. When I run my kivy app, the display still goes to the "normal" Pi output (e.g. two screens connected to the RPi) instead of picture going to the PiTFT touchscreen.

I tried a pygame app which works just fine on the PiTFT, so my problem is convincing kivy to send the output to the proper fb device.

- Dan Stoner

[yuri...@gmail.com]

Hey all, sorry to wake this old thread, but was wondering if you had any success making the Adafruit PiTFT work properly with Kivy?

I'm trying to build a portable standaone prototype, with as small footprint as possible, the PiTFT seems like the best solutions as it just snaps on to the RasperryPi pins, with no extra cables/power supply needed.

But I'm still trying to figure out if it works well with Kivy?
Thanks!