Hosyond 3.5 inch 320x480 IPS Capacitive Touch Screen LCD Module SPI Serial ST7796U Driver for Arduino R3/Mega2560

Unfortunately, the SD slot is instable and causing issue on this product. The screen is great though.

Was going crazy trying to figure out why I couldn’t get this thing going. This thing has the newer ILI19488 chipset, eSPI_TFT has a profile for it. Follow the pin mapping in the profile preset, it works. To the seller: Seriously, update the listing, you wasted too much of my time. Screen looks great, documentation exists, the touchscreen seems to be hard to deal with, though i may have gotten a bad unit

This is a very nice display. It is bright and crisp. Colors look really good. When it arrived I was pleasantly surprised to find that it already had the header soldered on! It worked right out of the box. I used an ESP32 MCU to drive the display. I used the Adafruit_GFX and Adafruit_ILI9341 libraries in the Arduino IDE and they worked perfectly. The only issue I had was, as a couple other reviews have mentioned, the colors were inverted. However this was easily remedied using the tft.invertDisplay(true) command that is found in the Adafruit_ILI9341 library. I tested it with several different programs. One simply displayed a full screen photo-realistic image, one was an ioT project that pulled weather data from online and displayed it on the TFT, one was another ioT project that read the time from a time server and displayed it as an analog clock. The last one was a test of the touch screen. It uses an FT6336 chip to drive the touch screen and I2C for the touch screen communication. I used a library I found called FT6336U to interface with the touch screen. The library expects the display to be in portrait mode ( 240 W X 320 H). I use mine in landscape mode (320 W and 240 H) so I had to do a few code tweaks to get it to work in landscape mode. Once they were done the touch screen functioned perfectly. It was accurate and responsive. I really like this display and would recommend it to anyone who needs a cool display to go along with their projects.

These are very nice displays. I was able to use the Adafruit ST7789 library on the Mega but had to make a few strange tweeks. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ISSUE 1) My colors were totally wrong Colors were off so had to: BGR() macro on all colors in my config (like this) // This display swaps R and B channels. Macro corrects all color values. // RGB565 format: RRRRR GGGGGG BBBBB #define BGR(c) ( ((c & 0xF800) >> 11) | (c & 0x07E0) | ((c & 0x001F) << 11) ) // ── Papyrus palette (RGB565, BGR-corrected) ─────────────────────────────────── #define COL_PAPYRUS BGR(0xF5E6) // warm tan background #define COL_INK BGR(0x2A05) // dark brown ink #define COL_GOLD BGR(0xFEA0) // amber/gold accents #define COL_DARKGOLD BGR(0xCA40) // deeper gold for borders #define COL_RED_INK BGR(0x9000) // terracotta red for errors #define COL_SUCCESS BGR(0x0600) // dark green for solved state #define COL_DIMINK BGR(0x8C6B) // faded ink for inactive elements #define COL_STONE BGR(0xC5A3) // mid-tone stone for borders -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ISSUE 2) all my text was inverted (like i was looking in a mirror) I was using tft.setRotation(2); in my startup, so.... in the actual Adafruit_ST7789.cpp file of the library I had to modify case 2 (2 in my case because that was my rotation) and add ST77XX_MADCTL_MX in that setRotation function Like this: case 2: madctl = ST77XX_MADCTL_MX | ST77XX_MADCTL_RGB; _xstart = _colstart2; _ystart = _rowstart2; _width = windowWidth; _height = windowHeight; break; -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I suggest using AI (like Claude) to help you configure. It ultimately helped me sort all this out. Hope this helps someone else. (terrable pic attached, but supper clear in real life)

The doc is useless as are the libraries and samples. I'm running this on a teensy 3.2 and it finally works well. I'm using ILI9341_t3 library but took a few hours of playing and searching to figure out that i had to add tft.invertDisplay(1) to get the colors to be correct. The doc from the manufacture is terrible. The examples from the manufacture don't work and the libraries from the manufacture don't work. There are many typos in both and are not worth even looking at. At this point I'm not using the touch part of the screen and I am only just starting to play with the SD card