I have a waveshare SKU:24159 paper display, which I have not been able to get my raspberry pi 3b+ to run.
For my project I wish to make a data recording, temperature reading device. I’m not sure which screen will suit my project best. Something around the 4’’ mark will be ideal. Any advice would be much appreciated!
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Hi @raymon270154, welcome to the forums!
This seems like a good choice of display for this project and should be comparable with your Raspberry Pi 3B+.
Would you be able to share more about your setup? If you could share the setup steps followed as well as some photos of how you have this all connected we may be able to figure out how to get this working for you?
Thanks Sam!
my hardware is as follows
- MLX90614 (IR sensor)
- RFID RC522 (NFC reader, only have 1 fob to test with at this point)
- RPi 3B+
- waveshare SKU:24159
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here’s a bit more of a neat display of what I have going on here. I have tried to install drivers and followed the instructions on the waveshare document, but the HDMI screen goes black when the ribbon cable makes contact. I try and power up with the screen connected, can’t get past dark screens.
any advice on drivers/hopw to get the screen to work?
I can send my code for how everything is coming along so far if you’d like?
Thanks!
Hey @raymon270154,
Thanks for those photos, your connections between the display and the pi look sound. Having a look at the product wiki. It seems like there is a known issue when running this display on a Pi5. While this isn’t the same Pi you are using it may be worth trying out the fix for that issue.
The steps are:
- Check the system version using “uname --all”.
- If it’s kernel version 6.6.20, run “sudo rpi-update pulls/6050” to fix it.
Hopefully, this makes a difference. Otherwise, I would have a poke around that product wiki and see if any of the other commands get through to the display. Something like changing the brightness to max may change something.
Best of luck! 
