Any help installing a 2 “ LCD on a Pi Zero?
Tried the step by step sudo line by line stuff…
I haven’t had any luck with any of the mini displays I’ve bought.
Thanks.
What exactly is your problem? Can you provide more details about what you did and what errors you have?
he posted this in the Introduce yourself thread.
Just got a PIM589 display hat to install on one my Pi Zero boards…..
Tried all the instructions to set it up… sudo etc….
Didn’t work.
I have a few other smaller displays I’ve tried to get working on my other Zero’s… no luck either.
I just got this 589 and was hoping after reading the reviews it would be a cake walk!! ….. didn’t happen.
Can you maybe point me in right direction?? 🙏
Thanks in advance!!
@Thompscoh
I try to avoid denoting things by the PIM number. It’s a lot easier for others to know what it is if you just call it what it is. ;)
Display Hat Mini.
I have a bunch, and I mean bunch of ST7789 based LCD’s in use here. Mostly on Pico’s, but a few on Pi’s too.
Are you running Bookworm and doing the Virtual Environment install?
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Sorry for the description error… just day 2 for me on this site….
Also not familiar with where to post questions…
I will try to get it right next time.
I followed to directions on the web page provided to install it. I’ll check about bookworm. I figured I have the latest version of OS since I do an update almost every time I power these guys up.
Let me know where I’m supposed to be to reply or send you a message.
Sorry…I’m a “newbie”
Don’t worry about it, we were all noobs at one time. ;)
Quite a few put the PIM### in the Thread title. Even if you have been here for a while, like me, I still end up searching for it to see what it is. I for one, don’t have those memorized. It’s not a big deal.
Post any follow ups on this issue to this thread. Anybody that’s posted to it will get an e-mail letting them know a new post was made.
Did the Pi Zero’s come with the headers pre-attached or did you solder them on?
Display Hat Mini firmly attached to the GPIO header?
If your running Bookworm, you’ll be doing everything with the Display from a Virtual Environment. As per the thread I linked too above.
Are you getting any error messages when you run the examples.
displayhatmini-python/examples at main · pimoroni/displayhatmini-python
I guess the black arrow replies to just you…
The blue one replies to the thread….
Still learning the ropes.
Headers were soldered on factory….
Although I’ve been soldering on the bench for 55 years….
Not sure how to work with vertual environments yet.
Will research that one.
Just sent this to you… don’t need everyone online to know how nubee I am…
When I’m more educated, I’ll post on the thread.
Thanks.
Maybe I need a class on getting around on this site…
I guess picking Homer Simpson as my avatar was the best choice …
I meant to say this earlier. Please don’t take anything I say as harsh criticism. ;) A lot of us fumbled along, I still goof up from time to time lol.
The black arrow just denotes who you are replying too. You may get multiple replies from different members. If you want to reply to a specific person you use the black arrow at the end of their post. Everybody still see’s it. ;)
Otherwise, just hitting the blue reply posts to the thread / everyone.
If you want to go private, click on that members avatar and you will see a Blue Message button. That lets you send them a private message. Only they see it.
The installer should set it up for you. The trick is, you have to activate it if you reboot etc, to use it again.
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Another gotcha: Must turn the virtual environment off with ‘deactivate’ to update/upgrade.
HI I am also fighting with this Display HAT mini on a Pi zero. I have successfully worked with Pimoroni display on Pico and a couple other e-paper LCD and OLED displays. But this one does not like me …
I did a fresh SD card today (Mar 21 2026) updated everything. Created the VENV
pip3 install displayhatmini
pip install pillow
Cloned the https://github.com/pimoroni/displayhatmini-python to get all examples and managed to run the pong.py ! Great.
But to actually use the display I need to write text to it. Doesn’t look complex but is not working. Used an example from the web, corrected errors because the libraries have changed… like :
DisplayHATMini(buffer) is now used instead of DisplayHATMini().
But I still do not get text out. I am trying to upload a text file with the code here… only manag to put a printscreen.
Any help is appreciated !
OK , before anyone starts wasting time on this subject, I managed to help myself …
Since pong.py was working I just went back to it and started using parts of the code.
Easy, it all works now doing what I wanted - write text in landscape. Again the code is here as an image, if anyone wants it as text let me know.
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