Raspberry Pi 5-inch Waveshare HDMI touch screen setup

A short tutorial video showing how to setup and calibrate a Waveshare 5-inch HDMI touch screen on your Raspberry pi.

Website address for the drivers:

Data and pinouts etc:

[drpdrpathak]

I managed to work on with my raspberry Pi3. Touch screen works fine.

Once you install don't use sudo ./LCD-show command (otherwise you will get kernel panic), just go to /home/pi/Downloads/LCD-show or whatever your file location. Open that folder and edit "cmdline.txt" file... from "root=/dev/mmcblkop2" - "root=/dev/mmcblkop7" . Then you give commands like dpkg.... and Sudo ./LCD-show. it will reboot and touchscreen will work with raspberry pi 3 (jessie installed via noobs)

[DirectedReading]

I just want to say how thankful I am for this tutorial. I bought the screen a while ago and could not for the life of me figure out how to set things up. I followed your tutorial and without skipping a beat--it's running. Thank you!

[ETAPRIME]

Wanted to say Thanks, got it up and running in no time.

[wevved]

Thanks so much for this walk through - I've had the screen for a while but never bothered to try and set it up until now. Worked perfectly.

[larrylovell]

I looked all over for information. Your Youtube video was great! Instructions were clear and up-to-date. The LCD driver was different for the Raspberry Pi3, but you mentioned that it might be. It works and I now have no problems.
Thank you very much for your effort.

[JCrayne]

after a year of sitting in a box, your video now has me up and running and config'd like a champ, I would add, if your using noobs, that you do have to change the config file from 2 to 6 to keep from having a kernel panic, but other than that. Thank you bro.

[reptiletoonsyt]

Good job! I was getting frustrated because my screen only showed 4 out of the 5 inches I ordered, but after the first reboot (after adding the numbers) my screen works! Thank you so much!

[patrickestosane]

Please help me!
I got (from Xinput): min_x=117, max_x=3992 and min_y=3743, max_y=156

and still the touch function didnt' work, I'm using XPT2046 in RPi 4 Model B.
TIA

[panagiotisgalanopoulos]

The file exists no more. Does anyone know wäre to find the LCD show file?

[synthfluencer]

This tutorial is still applicable after 5 years - and works also for the Kuman 5 inch display 👍 When I tried to calibrate the screen as shown in 10:34 I ran into an error message "Failed to execute child process "xterm" (Raspbian 10 "Buster"). I solved it by copy & renaming the lxterminal as follows:
cd /usr/bin
sudo cp lxterminal xterm

[CodfishCatfish]

Mine installed fine on RPI 2 with Jessie all commands worked great but after I go to calibrate and then touched the 4 calibrations points the calibration is still off to the bottom right every time even though I was very accurate. Any ideas please? Really appreciated as used for home automation server and need to keep an eye on things.

[MrGarfield]

Thanks for the video, just a tip. If you are the user pi you are already in /home/pi so you just have to type cd Downloads, and an other handy feature of BASH is when you type the first letter and then TAB you can cycle true the folder and filenames. So cd T [TAB KEY] would give you When you have mutiple files you can type the first 2 or 3 letters and then the TAB key :)

[amirkhalili]

Thanks, I found the screen works well with the pen but not by the touch of a finger. Is it the same for others?

[DuribunWolf]

Basically have to repeat what ETA Prime said, was up and running without any time at all, much appreciated.

[TheDormonid]

I did the same as you in the config.txt and the recalbox started perfectly. But when I try to start a game, it starts with everything out of frame again. what should I do?

[IanSRutter]

Excellent video and worked for me with no flaws.
I really like this screen.
Difficult to get a case, but what matters is it works.
Thanks for the great information.

[leifhanson]

This was an awesome video! I just have to say thank you for taking the time to make this. It was spot on and I was able to configure it quick and easy. You took all the guess work out of configuring it! Thanks again!

[KrishneilGarib]

There's also a new official capacitive multi touch lcd shield on the way for the rpi. Just saw it on Engadget the other day. Wonder if the setup is similar. Krish.

[corwinurbach]

Thanks, got the screen working but I has vertical lines going through it....any thoughts?

[JoseACopin]

This was very helpful! The best tutorial on here for this 5" LCD Screen Thankyou!