what display?

[TheOldPresbyope]

Hello,

Let me rewrite the question. I was asking if any of you use a smaller display, but I desperately need to finish a player now for my temporary flat, with a display.

So, my question now: what other display works without writing scripts? Only the official RPI display? https://malnapc.hu/raspberry-pi-7-inch-t...si-800x480

If I need to stick to the same resolution and size, I would still choose comething else because I have bad experience with the official display. My dream would be a small display, even an oled with text only, browsing in the directory structure or selecting radio station. That is all.  - but, as I understand it does not exsits. I'm not good in python to write sw behind it :-(

Thanks!
JG

Hi, JG.

You don't describe what bad experience you had with the official 7-inch display. The one I have has been working fine for over a year.

You could try a small HDMI-based LCD display/touch screen instead. I have experimented with one (it's a 3.5-inch display only; no touch screen) whose board is about the same area as the RPi3B it's mounted on. It works but IMO it's too small for the moOde WebUI---or maybe just for my eyes. (Also, some of us have run into an issue using an HDMI display where the chromium-browser process eventually hogs all of memory. Don't yet know why.)

Your "dream" machine sounds like the MP3 players that were all the rage 20 years ago. I still have my iRiver ifp890. It wasn't Internet-enabled, of course, so it played FM radio stations but other than that it does just what you describe. I would slip it into my pocket before going on long walks.

I think you might have better luck searching other sites such as diyaudio.com, instructables.com, or even the WWW looking for a diy stand-alone music player project or something like that. Off-hand, I don't know of any.

Regards,
Kent