Raspberry Pi 5 Tablet. Now with Cooling and KDE Plasma mobile

Standard Raspad 3 with 8GB Raspberry Pi 5 and official active cooler.
No power warnings at all throughout the tests I have done

Official cooler available through approved resellers

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------------------INSTALLATION----------------
Easier with 64bit Raspberry Pi OS or my KDE build

Also works with
Raspberry Pi os 64bit lite. extra steps below

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt-get install plasma-mobile

pick plasma mobile from login screen
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Extra steps if you installed using a lite version without gut
sudo apt install lxterminal
Startplasmamobile

Cm4 legacy can’t find plasm-mobile

[jbrubaker]

I figured out how to auto logon. Start with Plasma Desktop then go to system settings/startup and shutdown, then behavior at the bottom of the screen. You can then choose which desktop to start in. I found that I can start in either Raspberry Pi desktop (x) or Plasma (x) and then switch between them by logging out then back in. Real VNC will work with both of those desktops but not with the desktops using Wayland.

[CyberDunk]

This really shows off the power bump you get with the PI5. Silky smooth operation and nice and responsive. I’m still waiting for mine. I thought the Short video you made with the larger touch screen was pretty cool, makes me wish I had preordered 2 of them because it would make a nice little car-puter I can retro fit into my car. With its ability to support 2 cameras I could have a hacked together dash cam with one IR camera for night and a normal one for daytime. Another great video, keep them coming!

[JohnnyJTav]

Received my Pi 5 and power brick yesterday. Getting Active Cooler with Vilros Active Cooler Compatible Acrylic Holder/Case tomorrow. 😎

[Bob-of-Zoid]

I love KDE! They make a lot of great stuff! Plasma is my favorite DE of all time! It has more controls than the star ship enterprise D! Tomorrow I have to hook up the food replicator to the main deflector dish. You know thanksgiving, mass quantities of food, guests n' all!🤪

[jacobsabian]

im really enjoying all the sbc content lee, been watching you a couple of months since i got my orange pi 5 and started tinkering 👍

[LeslieLanagan]

This is brilliant. I'd replace my desktop, laptop, and current tablet because I don't do anything that would require more than a Pi.

[mrxmgs]

I would like to see how does this work with GNOME which I feel is more suitable as a touch UI.

[toddlittles]

i like to see the full build on this project,

[kangaroo]

if only the empty tablet shell and screen didn't cost more than an average android tablet. I both love and hate Raspberry because of this. For my plex server, an old thin client was cheaper, already came with drive, OS case, power plug and was fully windows compatible, and was 1/3rd the price of just a Pi 4 board.

[Hreimr]

That is awesome! I find that I often lack my extensions on browsers in Android (when on my tablet) and this would give the extensions to the browsers.

[JazzTechie]

Needs a squirrel cage fan for the pi, and maybe a little 3D printed duct (ABS not PLA) to route the hot air out of the case.

[fabriciochamorro]

In my opinion, you should test gnome, gnome-mobile or phosh variants

[magnussusanoo]

2010's UI with 2020's flavour

[BillyNoMates]

cool. I want that on my Raspberry Pi Zero 2w.
I guess id need to install Diet Pi and then apt-get install kde plasma ?
over clock and swap file size increase is probably a must do

[eomot]

I you do want a virtual keyboard during login (and not change to autologin) you can also switch to SDDM (apt install sddm && systemctl disable lightdm && systemctl enable sddm) and also do: apt install qtvirtualkeyboard-plugin Then you will get a Virtual Keyboard button in the bottom left corner next to where you can choose your desktop environment. You may need to reboot after these install steps

[vadimemelin]

Boy, it has so much potential
Just imagine linux tablet on cm5, flat af and beefy as hell
Jeff even managed to launch GPU on RPI5 this week, so I guess it can even support external gpus now lol

[AnimalFacts]

Would be interesting to see if you could get one of the nvme hats in there.

[VincentVeak]

Kind of unrelated, but I was wondering if you still had that BIGTREETECH TFT50 screen and if the Pi 5 worked on it with the new display cables. I've been fiddling with mine and I cannot for the life of me get it to work

[andysPARK]

Nice. Id never heard of the raspad before.

I wonder of you could wifi cast to a TV and use the pad as a keyboard/controller..?

[jbrubaker]

I forgot to add that you need to choose 'login screen (sddm)' under startup and shutdown.