Octoprint Raspberry Pi Touch Screen Install - Touch UI - Chris's Basement

In this one we install a touch screen hat on a Raspberry Pi that can be used with the Touch UI plugin.

00:00 Intro
00:45 Hardware & Assembly
03:33 Firmware
08:40 Touch UI for OctoPi
13:58 Conclusion

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[jameslaine]

Thank you for this well done presentation with no unnecessary background noise/music.

[tracymoon]

I tried a few other videos to get the touchscreen to work on the pi monitor, and none of them worked. This one was exactly what I needed. Now it loads on the monitor perfectly. Thank you sir!

[CiroRodrigues]

I bought a display quite like as yours, I tested it already successfully with Raspberry Pi but never actually found a good real life usage for it. But now it seems there are something useful to do with it. Thanks for your very clear tutorial.

[vng]

This is the Shizad! I've had such good luck with this install that I've purchased a second HDMI LCD for my other Pi. Thanks, Chris! Keep up the great work!

[Escapeexes]

Found this super helpful even a year later. Thanks so much for this guide.

[hgwells]

This is genius, I could not login into Touch UI your Video helped solve that problem, now it works like a dream! Thank you

[PrintNPlay]

I can't believe you would tackle such a touchy subject. Good on you!

[wadefallin]

Awesome Chris! I’m heading over to my Patreon account and add you into my list of creators to support! You listened to what your viewers wanted and produced the video! Back on March 3rd, you posted a video “LCD Screen - Monitoring Octoprint” where I agreed with Mark Stemmett’s comment that you should “show us how to connect the 3x5 inch touch LCD display to Octoprint”! When a creator takes the time to reply to most every comment, as you do, and act on some of those comments, as you do, then that creator should get recognized and rewarded in some way. Not only did you make a video on a 3x5 inch Touchscreen LCD, but you chose the same one I have! Thanks for listening to us Chris. I’ll be pulling mine out of the cigar box it’s been hiding in for two months this week and get it setup! Thanks again Chris!

[umar]

Man, this tutorial was so easy to follow and super simple! Great job Chris, this helped me out so much!

[drasticg]

Im trying to change my octoprint settings on my pc but it has the same screen as whats on my adafruit(simple) how to i get the full version on my desktop please

[olavodias]

As always, another great video from you Chris. In my case, my printer sits on the garage. On summer it gets super hot, and raspberry pi's can shutdown after they reach over 85 degrees celsius (as far as I know). So I need a fan in between the screen and the raspberry pi. I can overcome that by having a different HMDI cable and using cables instead of connecting the LCD directly to the board, which is what I will do :) Thanks for posting this video.

[kamakiri]

Chris, thanks so much for this, it worked perfectly - deviation while I did the specific drivers for my screen but the rest was fantastic. I cant imagine how much time you saved me

[TDDMakes]

Great video as always Chris. You make these tutorials very easy to follow. Thanks for sharing and looking forward to the next one.

[runicevan]

Thanks Chris! Very nice and detailed guide. I installed a ridiculous 10" touch screen with your help.

[ryanrm]

I love your videos, so helpful and really like your demeanor and methods of explaining. I am very new to all this and your videos are so easy to follow and straight to the point. Set up 2 octoprints with your other video and now adding the touch UI with this one. Thanks!

[JSCB-]

I used this video last year and everything worked. I did an update that caused me to have to install Octoprint fresh then discovered there was a huge issue with the install for the screen. After some thinking, went to gethub and found the new instructions for the UCTRONICS screen. Hope this helps some other users

[thehappyextruder]

Another Winner Tutorial Chris, keep them coming Sir !!! Happy Printing !

[TheWhitde]

Chris, been looking at getting a R. Pi for my Ender 3/Lerdge K setup and eventually converting my old Up 2 Plus to a Lerdge board. Every time I searched youtube for hints on doing things... your channel came up first and has provided the goods. Big thumbs up!

Too be truthful, if Lerdge was open source I'd use a wifi SD card to transfer the print file and alter the firmware to have a watch directory on the SD card. Upon finding a new non-busy file it would start printing.

Have a small side project... "spaghetti ball " detector. Saw some AI web camera ones but I envisioned a simpler and cheaper point/dot laser and detector placed so a beam is aimed just above nozzle height and too a side. Basically if the detector falls less than a threshold for a certain amount of time it will mean "something" is where it shouldn't be and the firmware stops the print. I'm sure this could be tied into the filament out detectors that some have as the end result and action taken is the same. Some firmware even has ability to halt if an end stop is triggered when printing as that should never happen. From my observations... the infamous spaghetti ball usually results in a tangled mess all around the nozzle.

[candogancan]

thank you for this subject and clear presentation w/o music at the background. Well done.

[PunakiviAddikti]

My screen came with a driver CD with the driver file on it. The Pi couldn't read the install file. Fantastic. Not to worry, I gave up on the touch functionality a long time ago. It serves only as a screen now. The touch does work. The Pi found the driver, but it's offset. A lot. Nothing worked, the touch couldn't be calibrated or changed. I might give this a go, the screen is the exact same one I have.