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[Guide] ili9163 SPI TFT Screen on Retropie

Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2017 11:58 am
by RedPixel
Based on the awesome guide by moosepr, and some help from him on this forum and a topic on the RetroPie forums, I created a little guide for the even smaller SPI screens 1.44" 128*128 pixel and 1.8" 128*160 pixels. These screens have an ili9163 instead of an ili9341.

The thread this guide is based on: [Guide] ili9341 SPI TFT Screen on Retropie You need this guide for the larger than 1.8" screens!

The guide for the smaller screens: Connecting an SPI ILI9163 Screen to RetroPie

These are the screens that have headers marked LED, SCK, SDA, A0, RESET, CS, GND and VCC.

Re: [Guide] ili9163 SPI TFT Screen on Retropie

Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2017 12:53 pm
by moosepr
Very nicely done! Looks pretty 😀

Re: [Guide] ili9163 SPI TFT Screen on Retropie

Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2018 11:25 am
by jux1e
Hey! Thanks again for the nice and simple guide. I followed it, however I ran into a problem.
The display got some garbage pixels on edges.
https://imgur.com/a/1xjngjm
I tried both ili9163 and st7735r drivers with fbtft but both seem to have this problem.
Here is my /etc/modprobe.d/fbtft.conf

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options fbtft_device name=fb_ili9163 gpios=reset:25,dc:24,led:23 speed=40000000 rotate=1 bgr=1 custom=1 fps=60
And here's my /boot/config.txt

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hdmi_force_hotplug=1
hdmi_cvt=128 128 60 1 0 0 0
hdmi_group=2
hdmi_mode=87
If you or someone could point me to solution to this I would be grateful.