Hi all,
just wanted to confirm if the 7.3" epaper display worked with the pi5? Only asking as there’s a review on the retail page at Inky Impression 7.3" (7 colour ePaper/E Ink HAT) that says it wont - considering purchasing one, but not if it wont work with my new pi!
Thanks in advance for any advice.
It will work but it makes no sense to combine a device that is optimized for low-power mostly off scenarios with a device that is optimized for delivering high computing performance at the cost of high power requirements.
You can buy cheaper full color displays of the same size that don’t take 40 seconds to update.
Unless you want to build something like this, when it makes perfect sense!
I’ve had trouble cmake’ing stable diff on the zero, so I’m doing it on the 5 first, and want to get it up and running using that board before problem solving the zero.
Good point. The only thing to consider: if cmake is the problem, you could compile and build on a Pi5 and then run on a pi-zero-w2. Unless you need more memory than the pi-zero-w2 delivers.
Regarding the comment on the product page you refer to: I think some people confuse “works with” and “there are problems installing the software”. Currently in the transition to Bookworm, Pimoroini has some problems with their installer, but is working hard to fix this. But if you are into cmake than you will probably also be able to fix the installer problem yourself (typically a python virtual env stuff).