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Sorry to ask a stupid question, but is the HD44780 connected via I2C on the modem board, and what "Port" should I select ?? Modem ??

I've connected mine via that port but I'm not seeing anything

I'm temporarily giving up using the LCD screen to display whats on the RPi desktop. Mainly because I found this article about how the display works https://www.willprice.org/2017/09/16/adventures-with-tft-screens-for-raspberry-pi.html And it sounds like it uses the UART, which if I'm not mistaken is...

BTW. In case anyone reading this thread is interested.... The "mobile" pages from http://amateurradio.digital/pistar.php don't work anymore. Unfortunately the author no longer supports them, and it looks like they are incompatible with the Raspbian Stretch since they use php functions whic...

Hi Andy Sorry. I was miss naming the latest version as a Beta when I should have said RC2 I guessed it was based on Stretch since thats whats listed as the source for apt (in /etc/apt/sources.list) I'll do a clean install of RC2, and then run the latest installGUI.sh to confirm it works OK for me. T...

The script has been patched, and so has the RC :) Its why this seems to magically work again now... Thanks Andy.. I can see that you have changed the Beta as the sources.list file now reference Stretch rather than Jessie, so I presume that the new version is more like Raspbian Stretch Light than Je...

Another update... Its all working, if I manually execute the commands but some commands in the script are not needed e.g. I think one of these 2 commands does not install anything (though I cant remember which one) sudo apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends xserver-xorg sudo apt-get install -y ...

Just to keep this thread up to date ... I've just done a clean install using the latest PiStar Beta version, and then manually ran sudo apt update and sudo apt upgrade (after first enabling RW), and I was then able to run sudo apt install raspberrypi-ui-mods so that xwindows runs OK But I've not had...

I'm not at all surprised - I don't maintain the script, or how it works, and have always said that its not a supported or supportable thing to do. However since its currently clearly broken, I'll work on it with Mike and make sure we at least leave a working copy up there. Me too... I didn't necess...

Hi Roger, I tried this script just prior to Xmas on a Pi zero and it failed due to broken dependencies ... Sounds similar to what I experienced on the 3B+ FYI. VK4JWT managed to get it to work on a RPi 2, so it looks like it does work on some platforms. I think he also said he got it to work on a Z...

Thanks. I know I have to use the Beta version of PiStar for the 3B+ The question was about installing PiStar GUI, which is the HDMI display output, onto the 3B+ I have PiStar runing fine on my 3B+, but I can't install the HDMI display stuff. i.e When you connect a monitor directly to the PiStar, and...