raspberry pi 4 and Venus OS and ... what touch screen?

[Derka181]

I have an extra raspberry pi 4 and a SD card lying around and thought i would try to build my own Victron Cerbo. I'm just curious about what touch screen i should use. I've seen that raspberry pi has a new touch screen 2 " https://www.pishop.ca/product/raspberry-pi-touch-display-2/ " but I've read or seen that so far its not compatible with with Venus OS. Can anyone confirm if this is still the case. If so which screen would you recommend? I would like to have the raspberry pi on the back for the touch screen

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[sunshine_eggo]

@Brucey

 

[Brucey]

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Thread 'Non-Victron HDMI display for Cerbo -S GX?'

Nov 6, 2024

I’m looking for a very low cost HDMI display for use with Cerbo-S GX. Touch screen not necessary. I really do not want to fool with drivers installation. What display have YOU used with easy success. No guesses please. I can do that all day. Make and model please. USB powered would be a plus. Thanks.

• DIYJim
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• Forum: DIY Solar General Discussion

Note this doesn't work as touch screen for cerbo without faffing about but should work fine with a pi added to the back, i use it for cerbo display only off the hdmi on my cerbo-s.

 

[Derka181]

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Thread 'Non-Victron HDMI display for Cerbo -S GX?'

Nov 6, 2024

I’m looking for a very low cost HDMI display for use with Cerbo-S GX. Touch screen not necessary. I really do not want to fool with drivers installation. What display have YOU used with easy success. No guesses please. I can do that all day. Make and model please. USB powered would be a plus. Thanks.

• DIYJim
• Replies: 22
• Forum: DIY Solar General Discussion

Note this doesn't work as touch screen for cerbo without faffing about but should work fine with a pi added to the back, i use it for cerbo display only off the hdmi on my cerbo-s.

I thought I didn't need to buy a cerbo . I can make it with installing venous OS

 

[Brucey]

I thought I didn't need to buy a cerbo . I can make it with installing venous OS

That's correct. But that thread includes a link to the display I use. I think for it to work with cerbo I have to fiddle with config files. For your pi it should work

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0CJNHY3X3

 

[740GLE]

So last year I built a rapi 4 with a generic Amazon 10” touch screen.

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Thread '2024 RaPi Venus OS build'

Aug 2, 2024

Looking to build a cheap Cerbo GX wanna be with RaPi Venus.

Been doing some YouTube deep dives and looking for advice. This is for an off grid set up currently WITHOUT constant network. I’ll be able to hot spot and upload to VRM data logging so real time info isn’t needed, just data logging and display while we’re there.

My current and future victron gear

1 SCC with Ve.direct
1 Smart shunt with Ve.direct
1 Multiplus with Ve.Bus
TBD 1 more SCC Ve.direct

I have two JK 8s BMS and can’t really see any benefits trying to get them to talk to the Venus when I have the smart shunt, I run a...

• 740GLE
• Replies: 52
• Forum: DIY Solar General Discussion

If you roll up your sleeves and don’t mind Larping as a “coder” in command prompt you can make it work. I never got into coding beyond intro to C++ course over 18 years ago but can follow step by step instructions, oh and Mac OS terminal has a built in SSH functionality.

There’s a GitHub of a Venus “set up helper” plug in that allows you to SSH into the pi, run some scripts, enable it to be headless turns on the hid output, the configure your display to the rapi, and your good to go. There was a Venus 3.5 update that forced you to rerun the headless prompt, which threw me for a loop when I thought it was an easy update.

A few good YouTube videos walked me through the process. Toby’s Real life skills was one of them, he did a quick walk through video a few years ago about initial set up.