I wrote-up some instructions for configuring Venus to use the 3.5" SPI touch screen (MPI3501), and put them on the Victron Wiki

https://github.com/victronenergy/venus/wiki/pi-Venus-install-Touch-Screen-(MPI3501--ILI9486-320x480-LCD)

 

May be of use to others here!

The touchscreens are really cheap too!  I only paid 65RMB for mine (R130 ish).

 

You should also tell people on the community site.

4 hours ago, shanghailoz said:

I wrote-up some instructions for configuring Venus ...

I LAUGHED at this! "Touch the screen appropriately (after first buying it dinner and drinks, and getting consensual permission etc.)"

🤣

13 hours ago, plonkster said:

You should also tell people on the community site.

I actually googled how to get it working, and it led me to a the google groups list, where others had similar questions - https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/victron-dev-venus/5OYoQpXbLa0

The internet was playing nicely enough for me to access google reliably enough to post (China, bleh, vpn etc), so I wrote up some instructions, took me around an hour of fiddling about to get mine working, as I had no instructions, and was unfamiliar with overlays and config.txt peculiarities.  Plenty of *nix experience, and embedded dev, so got there in the end

Posted to the wiki, into the victron google group, here, and  to Reddit too.  Surely thats enough haha?

Yeah there is a guy who built one of these for his van, he even has a youtube video on how to get it done. In the beginning I even helped with some directions, I have since gotten way too busy to spend time on that project. Which is a little sad, I'm the guy who made the port! 🙂

Right from the beginning I included a few device tree overlays for touch screens, because i knew people might want to use it. The very first touch screen support for the gui, that was also around 3 lines of C++, but since then a lot went into it to make it really work, mostly because the CanVu500 needed it.