Makibes 7 inch Capacitive Touch Screen LCD (C) 1024×600 HDMI interface For Raspberry Pi/BB BLACK/PC/Various Systems

Annoying to have a multiple products on a single Amazon entry - this is for the 1024x600 LCD Screen. Has a full sized HDMI Connector for input, and a single Micro USB socket for Power and for providing touch screen control.Overall I'm happy enough - got the display part working quickly on a Raspberry Pi 2 with minor changes to config.txt. I haven't got the touch screen working, but it is recognised in the Raspbian kernel, so I suspect it just needs a little configuring to get it working under X windows. A disk arrived with it, but as I'm not really that interested in the touchscreen capability, nor running custom builds - so I've not explored that.**Note the current draw for the screen with the backlight it just over 500mA, and so cannot be powered by the Raspberry PI via a USB socket.** If you want to use the touch screen, you'll probably want a USB Y cable like this... http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0047AALW6 (red plug to a USB power supply, black plug into raspberry pi). It is a micro USB socket on the display.This screen doesn't do scaling very well (in many cases not at all), so you need to use it at the correct resolution. Sadly 800x600 isn't supported even with black bars (I know this is 4:3 and the LCD is widescreen, but 800x600 is a generally the fallback mode for many devices).It did come well packed, and screen was protected with removal film.Here is my config.txt (note many options below are commented out): #hdmi_safe=1 #disable_overscan=1 #overscan_left=16 #overscan_right=16 #overscan_top=16 #overscan_bottom=16 hdmi_force_hotplug=1 hdmi_group=2 hdmi_mode=2 hdmi_mode=87 hdmi_cvt=1024 600 60 3 0 0 0 #hdmi_drive=2 #config_hdmi_boost=4 #sdtv_mode=2

The display is good, clear and bright.The HDMI lead is, however, stiff and difficult to route sensibly.The provided rasperian O/S provided works, but for me would not survive an update/upgrade cycle- would not re-boot. Also it bypasses the normal startup options.Suggest using the normal distribution as follows (assuming you are using a Windows PC for this)-Download and transfer to your SD card as normal (e.g. Win32DiscImager)Access the card and open config.txt in Notepad.Add the following lines and save- hdmi_force_hotplug=1 hdmi_group=2 hdmi_mode=1 hdmi_mode=87 hdmi_cvt=1024 600 60 6 0 0 0Plug into 'Pi and run as usual.

Just received this today same day delivery received before the delivery time.I flashed the Raspbian OS that came on the CD on to my Raspberry PI 2 Model B flash card.Booted up the PI and I'm right now typing this from a beautiful, crisp and touch enabled screen.Package came well protected, with a wiping cloth as well (which is not mentioned in description and I thought was nice to add).Some authors have said that they would have preferred that screen worked on their version of Ubuntu or whatever, in my opinion the bundled OS is recent enough (kernel version 4.x) to be good for most intents and purposes.I did do apt-get update to fix some apt dependancies that were missing rebooted with no problems.I have not tried apt-get upgrade as other authors have mentioned that this removes the touch drivers, so something to be aware of.All in all a great piece of kit.

The Screen is very good i do like it a lot even though the touchscreen does NOT work even after trying to use every image provided on the disk,..I will probably use it as a Display for a Weatherstation i build with a Raspberry PI (does not need touchscreen). I wanted to use it as a Wall Control Panel for my openHAB but without touchscreen that won't really make any sense.

A very good screen but there is a worrying lack of information about how to power it, or what power requirements it even has. This makes it very hard to actually get set up with a Raspberry Pi that has a limited USB power output. It turns out that it uses 5V and somewhere around 1A via mini USB (the connector labelled 'touch' on the screen).

As everyone else has said, it works perfectly as a screen when the config file is configured (which means you typically need a separate screen to set it up!)Touch screen I couldn't get to work with all the drivers/latest raspbian/etc on my RasPi 1B, but on my 3 it worked like a charm.

Very good product, it really works and we are using it in our latest kit the MediaPi3-kit here at www.tahium.com. The price is very good and competitive, it comes with all the cables and software and it really works well with the Raspberry Pi x. Well done Amazon again for this great product.

Struggling to get working RELIABLY without using the supplied image's which to be honest i do not like using as they as custom images from china , sorry honest Chinese but you have a bit of a reputation ......