Runs fine for a while on a 3.2 Waveshare model, but after about 2 mins, the screen goes white. I understand the library isnt exactly maintained. But any help is appriciated

[shubhanshudixit]

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[anmolss111]

I have been looking at this library recently and running things using a pi zero 2.
The backlight off flag if enabled it switches the backlight off as well if the reset pin is provided.. this can help in power consumption if you put it in to a battery.
DGPIO_TFT_BACKLIGHT

fbcp-ili9341/fbcp-ili9341.cpp

Line 168 in d0ebacf

TurnDisplayOff();

I think the turn off display is called from there.

It works if there is constant input to the screen but blanks.. if we put a demon thread to observe it with input and usage you can restart fbcp on action.

Thinking of reading through the code it has so many possibilities this thing can go.

• This framebuffer can be forwared using RPC or socket to have streaming. I think the DMA control does this with wire transfer but not sure.