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Rak 19007 + E-ink 14000 screen? (infosec.pub)

submitted 2 months ago by Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works to c/meshtastic@mander.xyz

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So ive recently fell DEEP into this hobby, and have a few RAK boards. my friends and i have been working on our nodes, and we originally were going to go with the OLED display, but we all are BAD at soldering. Plus i find RAK charges alot for the screens. So we found out that RAK sells an e-ink display! I also found a feature request on github, asking if they can add the 14000 E-ink to the firmware. They said they did, as of 2022, BUT I SWEAR FOR THE LIFE OF ME. I cant figure out how to enable the screen! ive tried all the OLED-Overide settings ive tried diffrent CPU boards ive tried diffrent baseboard and screen.

IT HAST to be somthing im being stupid about right? i cant find anything online other than the black and white screen is suported and a 18 second video of some guy getting it working. but no instructons or breadcrumbs to make it work.

Any help would be very much appreciated!

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[–] Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Your right you gotta build it from source. It was a little tedious, but i am luckily a chronic linux nerd. 1000003803 ]!

Annoying part was figuring out Git. My default the meshtastic guide has you build bleed edge firmware.

I made 3 builds

Bleeding edge Alpha And stable

Stable has a simple and old UI compared to the other 2. So ill stick with alpha.

Thanks for the help

[–] AreWeEvenReal@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago

Nice to see it working!