Close

First success with Armbian, NanoPi and ILI9341 Touch

A project log for G-EDM

The G-EDM is a 4in1 electrical discharge machine that supports sinker EDM, EDM engraving, EDM drilling and Wire EDM operations.

gedm-devgedm-dev 04/20/2023 at 20:351 Comment

After having a hard time getting the ILI9341 touchscreen working with the NanoPi Neo (Allwinner H3)  it seems to work now.

To have more GPIOs available for other stuff the touch and display share one SPI bus.

There is basically nothing available out of the box and I'm a total noob with NanoPi, Armbian and overlays so there may be errors.

But it works.

root@nanopineo:~# uname -a
Linux nanopineo 5.15.93-sunxi #23.02.2 SMP Fri Feb 17 00:00:00 UTC 2023 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux

This is the wiring between ILI9341 and NanoPi Neo:

/*
   3.3v <-->  VCC & LED
   GND  <-->  GND
   PC2  <-->  SCK       & T_CLK
   PC1  <-->  SDO<MISO> & T_DO
   PC0  <-->  SDI<MOSI> & T_DIN
   PA1  <-->  DC
   PG8  <-->  RESET
   PC3  <-->  CS
   PA3  <-->  T_CS
   PG9  <-->  T_IRG
 */

This is the overlay ( ili9341-touch-double-spi-cs.dts ):

/dts-v1/;
/plugin/;

/ {
    compatible = "allwinner,sun8i-h3";

    fragment@0 {
        target = <&pio>;
        __overlay__ {
            spi0_cs1: spi0_cs1 {
                pins = "PC3"; 
                function = "gpio_out";
                output-high;
            };

            spi1_cs1: spi1_cs1 {
                pins = "PA3"; 
                function = "gpio_out";
                output-high;
            };

            opiz_display_pins: opiz_display_pins {
                pins = "PA1", "PG8", "PA6";
                function = "gpio_out";
            };

            ads7846_pins: ads7846_pins {
                pins = "PG9";
                function = "irq";
            };


        };
    };

    fragment@1 {
        target = <&spi1>;
        __overlay__ {
            pinctrl-names = "default", "default";
            pinctrl-1 = <&spi1_cs1>;
            cs-gpios = <0>, <&pio 0 3 0>; /* PA3 */
        };
    };

    fragment@2 {
        target = <&spi0>;
        __overlay__ {
            #address-cells = <1>;
            #size-cells = <0>;
            status = "okay";

            pinctrl-names = "default", "default";
            cs-gpios= <&pio 2 3 0>, <&pio 0 3 1>;

            opizdisplay: opiz-display@0 {
                pinctrl-1 = <&spi0_cs1>;
                reg = <0>; /* Chip Select 0 */
                compatible = "ilitek,ili9341";
                spi-max-frequency = <1000000>;
                status = "okay";
                pinctrl-names = "default";
                pinctrl-0 = <&opiz_display_pins>;
                rotate = <90>;
                bgr = <0>;
                fps = <33>;
                buswidth = <8>;
                dc-gpios = <&pio 0 1 0>;      /* PIN_22  GPIOA1 > */
                reset-gpios = <&pio 6 8 1 >; /*    GPIOG8> */
                /*led-gpios=<&pio 0 6 0>;        PIN_12  GPIOA6 > */
                debug=<4>;                        
            };

            ads7846: ads7846@1 {
                reg = <1>; /* Chip Select 1 */
                compatible = "ti,ads7846";
                spi-max-frequency = <1000000>;
                status = "okay";
                pinctrl-2=<&spi1_cs1 &spi1_cs1>;
                pinctrl-names = "default";
                pinctrl-3 = <&ads7846_pins>;
                interrupt-parent = <&pio>;
                interrupts = <6 9 2>; /* PG9 IRQ_TYPE_EDGE_FALLING */
                pendown-gpio = <&pio 6 9 0>; /* PG9 */
                /* driver defaults, optional */
                ti,x-min = /bits/ 16 <0>;
                ti,y-min = /bits/ 16 <0>;
                ti,x-max = /bits/ 16 <0x0FFF>;
                ti,y-max = /bits/ 16 <0x0FFF>;
                ti,pressure-min = /bits/ 16 <0>;
                ti,pressure-max = /bits/ 16 <0xFFFF>;
                ti,x-plate-ohms = /bits/ 16 <400>;
            };

        };

    };

This is the /boot/armbianEnv.txt

verbosity=1
bootlogo=false
console=serial
disp_mode=1920x1080p60
overlay_prefix=sun8i-h3
overlays=usbhost1 usbhost2 spi0
param_spidev_spi_bus=0
param_spidev_spi_cs=1
param_spidev_spi_cs=0
rootdev=UUID=XYZ-LONG-UUID-IS-LONG
rootfstype=ext4
user_overlays=ili9341-touch-double-spi-cs
usbstoragequirks=0x2537:0x1066:u,0x2537:0x1068:u

After connecting via ssh and starting evtest it shows this when touched ( not sure if it shows the correct coordinates yet )

Event: time 1682020476.763295, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1682020476.775286, type 3 (EV_ABS), code 0 (ABS_X), value 535
Event: time 1682020476.775286, type 3 (EV_ABS), code 1 (ABS_Y), value 3553
Event: time 1682020476.775286, type 3 (EV_ABS), code 24 (ABS_PRESSURE), value 65169

To add the overlay:

armbian-add-overlay /path/to/ili9341-touch-double-spi-cs.dts

I'm still not sure if it works like it should. But at least it does something that looks promising.

Discussions

sandro wrote 06/04/2023 at 14:43 point

Hi, I'm very interested in your project, I'm trying to compile your DTS file, but it keeps giving me syntax error..

Error: ili9341-touch-double-spi-cs.dts:96.6-7 syntax error
FATAL ERROR: Unable to parse input tree

Do you have any suggestions?
Thanks in advance

  Are you sure? yes | no