# Touchscreen Display by German Watterott.com **URL:** \ **Category:** Diy Volumio Projects\ **Created:** [February 14, 2014, 7:42am UTC](https://community.volumio.com/t/touchscreen-display-by-german-watterott-com/654 "2014-02-14T07:42:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tiger23573](https://community.volumio.com/user_avatar/community.volumio.com/tiger23573/32/36_2.png) [@tiger23573](https://community.volumio.com/u/tiger23573)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2014, 7:42am UTC](https://community.volumio.com/t/touchscreen-display-by-german-watterott-com/654/1 "2014-02-14T07:42:26Z")
Does anyone know this display? Are there any experiences with it? Here are links to the shop and git hub: [http://www.watterott.com/de/RPi-Display](http://www.watterott.com/de/RPi-Display) [https://github.com/watterott/RPi-Display/](https://github.com/watterott/RPi-Display/) I have the idea to put this display into my player case and can use it instead of a smartphone or tablet to control volumio. Does this will work? Gesendet von meinem SM-N9005 mit Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![kali1705](https://community.volumio.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/bc8723/32.png) [@kali1705](https://community.volumio.com/u/kali1705)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 9:05pm UTC](https://community.volumio.com/t/touchscreen-display-by-german-watterott-com/654/2 "2014-03-06T21:05:21Z")
Hi just spent some evenings on installing the watterott display over a volume installation on raspberry pi II, uk version. Furthermore i put some scripts on it to clear the display after booting and then starting a mpd satis to show what is currently playing. Everything works fine, but the music quality gets really poor. The music is not impacted by the additional hw but the driver seems to consume to much cpu that the music output gets really poor. So in a nutshell: I can not recommend to install it. Beste Grüße aus Wolfsburg ---
**Author:** ![tiger23573](https://community.volumio.com/user_avatar/community.volumio.com/tiger23573/32/36_2.png) [@tiger23573](https://community.volumio.com/u/tiger23573)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 8:30am UTC](https://community.volumio.com/t/touchscreen-display-by-german-watterott-com/654/3 "2014-03-09T08:30:35Z")
Thank you for your work and documentation. That is sad, but now I want to make my player without a display. I thought, that I could use a China smartphone as a display, but I don’t know if it would affect the sound quality negatively. Gesendet von meinem SM-N9005 mit Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![Melomane](https://community.volumio.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Melomane](https://community.volumio.com/u/Melomane)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 7:04pm UTC](https://community.volumio.com/t/touchscreen-display-by-german-watterott-com/654/4 "2014-03-09T19:04:44Z")
@kali1705 Which Version/SPI-Mode did you test? [github.com/watterott/RPi-Display](https://github.com/watterott/RPi-Display) Scroll down to the bottom of that side… “8-Bit SPI Default on RPi-Display v2.x, Performance: about 20 FPS, \<10% CPU usage” Less than 10% should not be a problem? ---
**Author:** ![astronomydomine](https://community.volumio.com/user_avatar/community.volumio.com/astronomydomine/32/13_2.png) [@astronomydomine](https://community.volumio.com/u/astronomydomine)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 6:26am UTC](https://community.volumio.com/t/touchscreen-display-by-german-watterott-com/654/5 "2014-03-13T06:26:42Z")
Hi everybody. This display looks very interesting. @kali: will you please post how did you manage to install the software on the volumio installation? @melomane: do you also tried the display? Regards, ---
**Author:** ![Melomane](https://community.volumio.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Melomane](https://community.volumio.com/u/Melomane)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 7:42am UTC](https://community.volumio.com/t/touchscreen-display-by-german-watterott-com/654/6 "2014-03-13T07:42:22Z")
No. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![kali1705](https://community.volumio.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/bc8723/32.png) [@kali1705](https://community.volumio.com/u/kali1705)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 10:52am UTC](https://community.volumio.com/t/touchscreen-display-by-german-watterott-com/654/7 "2014-03-13T10:52:19Z")
Hi all, 1. Version: i installed the 9bit Version as i did not want to hassle around with the jumpers. I have now sufficient hw to try the 9Bit Version. 2. How to ? 3. installed Volumio from the image, as downloaded from the volumio page 4. Installed the driver as explined here: [github.com/watterott/RPi-Display](https://github.com/watterott/RPi-Display) following the additional explanations here [github.com/notro/fbtft/wiki#wiki-install](https://github.com/notro/fbtft/wiki#wiki-install). Display works nice. Soundperformance poor. Will try now the 9Bit tweak. ---
**Author:** ![kali1705](https://community.volumio.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/bc8723/32.png) [@kali1705](https://community.volumio.com/u/kali1705)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2014, 11:15am UTC](https://community.volumio.com/t/touchscreen-display-by-german-watterott-com/654/8 "2014-03-15T11:15:24Z")
…did so (9Bit) and still have crackling sound over USB-\> DAC. Through the analogue jack sound is nice. So a kitchen radio solution would be possible. Hifi probably not. Does anybody have an idea how to reroute Display output to the Display automatically ? (currently i have to run a script that reroutes the display output via “action \>/dev/tty1” . Help would be appreciated. ---
**Author:** ![Melomane](https://community.volumio.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Melomane](https://community.volumio.com/u/Melomane)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2014, 11:03pm UTC](https://community.volumio.com/t/touchscreen-display-by-german-watterott-com/654/9 "2014-03-15T23:03:35Z")
> [@kali1705](#): > > still have crackling sound over USB-\> DAC. Through the analogue jack sound is nice. Ok, that’s the damned USB-bus-limitation, not the display’s fault There are a lot of postings in this forum… ---
**Author:** ![kali1705](https://community.volumio.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/bc8723/32.png) [@kali1705](https://community.volumio.com/u/kali1705)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2014, 12:24am UTC](https://community.volumio.com/t/touchscreen-display-by-german-watterott-com/654/10 "2014-03-16T00:24:21Z")
i’ll find out if i can find a more powerfull power supply (approx 2000ma), i guess that could solve the problem… ---
**Author:** ![DEx](https://community.volumio.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/5e9695/32.png) [@DEx](https://community.volumio.com/u/DEx)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2015, 8:22pm UTC](https://community.volumio.com/t/touchscreen-display-by-german-watterott-com/654/11 "2015-03-03T20:22:27Z")
Hi, I bought this from dealextreme: [eud.dx.com/product/844364780](http://eud.dx.com/product/844364780) Any chance to get this working with Volumio? What do you think? ---
**Author:** ![tiger23573](https://community.volumio.com/user_avatar/community.volumio.com/tiger23573/32/36_2.png) [@tiger23573](https://community.volumio.com/u/tiger23573)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2015, 8:31pm UTC](https://community.volumio.com/t/touchscreen-display-by-german-watterott-com/654/12 "2015-03-03T20:31:36Z")
Have you seen this link on the shop site? [http://pan.baidu.com/s/1mgwrity](http://pan.baidu.com/s/1mgwrity) There are further instructions available. ---
**Author:** ![DEx](https://community.volumio.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/5e9695/32.png) [@DEx](https://community.volumio.com/u/DEx)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2015, 9:05pm UTC](https://community.volumio.com/t/touchscreen-display-by-german-watterott-com/654/13 "2015-03-03T21:05:41Z")
Yes, from that it became obvious, that this is the clone of piscreen… So I only need to install a browser at that is it? ---
**Author:** ![tiger23573](https://community.volumio.com/user_avatar/community.volumio.com/tiger23573/32/36_2.png) [@tiger23573](https://community.volumio.com/u/tiger23573)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2015, 9:07pm UTC](https://community.volumio.com/t/touchscreen-display-by-german-watterott-com/654/14 "2015-03-03T21:07:23Z")
I don’t have an idea.