Pi-hole Pi4 + LCD Setup

metaxa · September 20, 2019, 12:06pm

Hello,

I want to create a pretty nice setup using pi4 + lcd screen:

Board: Pi4B
LCD : https://www.amazon.com/iUniker-Raspberry-800x480-Resolution-Cooling/dp/B07JZHLWGM?ref_=ast_bbp_dp
LCD output : https://github.com/jpmck/PADD

Questions:
1.) Is this a good setup/do you see any issues with this setup? (I will run in headless UI / terminal mode)
2.) Other similar setup recommendations/tips?

Thanks in advance,
R

DanSchaper · September 20, 2019, 3:23pm

My suggestion is to just try it, there's not anything you can break and you gain experience no matter what the outcome.

deHakkelaar · September 20, 2019, 5:37pm

Skeeterslint · September 21, 2019, 9:36pm

I just setup a Pi4b with this LCD and case from Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07WQW6H9S/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I set the Pi to boot to console from Raspi-Config it didn't seem to want to start PADD at first and I don't remember if i did anything to it to get it working but at one point i looked down at the screen and it was working after looking like it was stuck with a buffer of the OS booting. I could see PADD flickering in the background but now it works every reboot.

deHakkelaar · September 22, 2019, 10:53am

Am still wondering how PADD is able to auto start at boot without logging in.
I dont see anything in the PADD readme and the padd.sh script that does.

@Skeeterslint, did you run something similar as below ?

sudo systemctl disable getty@tty1.service

sudo systemctl enable autologin@tty1.service

Am probably too stupid right now to see, just waking up and still at first coffee

EDIT: You can check histrory:

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Skeeterslint · September 22, 2019, 3:51pm

I used this tutorial on Adafruit.com. But since the screen that I got wasn't one of theirs I just used Raspi-config to boot to console then put in the .bashrc portion to have PADD start.

https://learn.adafruit.com/pi-hole-ad-pitft-tft-detection-display/using-padd-and-pihole

It's also in the PADD Readme.

github.com

pi-hole/PADD/blob/master/README.md

***Note:** PADD has been adopted by the Pi-hole team, thanks to JPMCK for creating this helpful tool!

# PADD

PADD (formerly Chronometer2) is a more expansive version of the original chronometer.sh that is included with [Pi-Hole](https://pi-hole.net). PADD provides in-depth information about your Pi-hole.

![PADD](https://jpmck.com/img/blog/padd.png)

## Setup PADD
*More in-depth information about setting up PADD can be found in this repo’s [wiki](https://github.com/jpmck/PADD/wiki/Setup).*

- Get a copy of PADD by running:
```bash
cd ~
wget -N https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pi-hole/PADD/master/padd.sh
```
- Make PADD executable by running
```bash
sudo chmod +x padd.sh
```

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deHakkelaar · September 22, 2019, 4:20pm

Those instuctions dont make your Pi autologin.
But I found instructions on the Wiki:

Set your Pi to automatically log into the console using raspi-config.

Skeeterslint · September 22, 2019, 4:29pm

I did say I used Raspi-config to make the Pi boot to console.

deHakkelaar · September 22, 2019, 4:31pm

Yeah you did
But this is a vital step so should have been more prominent in the instructions

Skeeterslint · September 22, 2019, 4:43pm

Well when your using one of the adafruit screens right in the driver install they give you an option to boot to console, but since the screens we have use a different driver we needed to use Raspi-Config.

Twisted_Savage · January 12, 2020, 12:18am

Can some one help me on this, i have the same LCD screen Skeeterslint used and I install the drivers and ran the commands for PADD from githud, set to boot to CLI but I just get what looks to be the last bit of booting stuck on the screen. ( where it has OK in green on the left. Any help would be awesome.

jfb · January 12, 2020, 12:19am

I would inquire on the PADD Github page.