HMTECH Raspberry Pi Screen 10.1 Inch Touchscreen Monitor 1024x600 Portable HDMI Monitor 16:9 IPS Screen Display for Raspberry Pi 5/4/3/2/Zero/B/B+ Win11/10/8/7, Free-Driver

This review is for the "HMTECH Raspberry Pi Screen 10.1 Inch Touchscreen Monitor 1024x600" (model HM10.1-RP). For the most part, this is a good deal, as it's a decent sized touch screen for $60. My tests have been mostly positive, in that I will be able to make use of this for other projects, but not for my originally intended project.I was hoping to attach a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W to the back of this and put this to use as a kiosk of sorts. However, since the screen's power input and touch control input are combined through a single micro-USB interface, this is not possible with a Pi Zero computer. When a Pi Zero is connected, the screen will turn off and on every few seconds: It will stay on for maybe 5 to 20 seconds, and then it will turn black (seems to power off) for anywhere from 1 second to maybe 5 seconds, and then it turns on again. This continues indefinitely, which results in this combination of computer and screen being unusable, presumably due to the Pi Zero not passing sufficient amperage through the micro-USB connection to the screen.Tests confirm that a Raspberry Pi 4 (Model B Rev 1.4) does work without any problems. It actually works very well, even with the 5-minute screen timeout powering off the screen and then powering back on again when touched (running Ubuntu 22.04.3).The takeaway is that the screen works well, probably with just about any other types of computers, including Pi 4 computers, but not with Pi Zero computers. If one did not need the touch capability, then the screen could probably be powered by a separate power source, and then it might work as a display for a Pi Zero computer, but that's not my intended use-case. It would be nice if there was a different way to power this screen besides through the micro-USB connection, so that the touch capability could be enabled on a Pi Zero.Updated: I was mistaken about the Pi Zero power to the screen. It turns that using a power supply with higher current (amps) does provide sufficient power for both the Pi Zero computer and the screen through the micro-USB port on the Pi Zero, while still enabling touch screen control over the same micro-USB connection to the screen. I'm using the power supply described as "Argon Micro USB Cable Power Supply 5.25 Volts 3 Amps for Raspberry Pi 3 and Zero Boards". Additionally, the screen blanking in the Raspberry Pi O.S. (set to a default of 10 minutes) does also power off the screen, and then wakes up (powers on) the screen when the screen is touched.

Bright and clear

Cool display, took 1 Stars off due the monitor not working on arrival, the ribbon connector wasn't seated properly.

Screen did not work. Screen showed up, I tried the screen with multiple hdmi cords on multiple computers and tried multiple 5V inputs, none of which worked. I suspect it is just the display because when I plug it into my computer the computer recognizes the screen and even allows me to float the mouse off screen presumably to the dead display, but it does not turn on. Very disappointed.

Using this screen with a victron cerbo gx for system control. Screen is great, touch doesn’t seem to work though and when I first unboxed it the ribbon cables to the board were not seated properly so there was intermittent interference and video quality issuesUpdate, after speaking to customer service was able to get the touch functionality working, intermittently, the usb power needs to be connected to one of the data ports not just power. The circuit board mounted to the back of the screen is loosely attached (unable to tighten it better because of how it’s mounted) and it seems the problem is still with the ribbon cables, if held just right it works well, as soon as anything moves touch goes away.Second update. Seller was very helpful and got me all sorted. Everything works great now

bought this almost a year ago for an upcoming project, just now taking it out of the box and touch is dead, doesn't work with any devices(tried 6 different devices all on different operating systems), no physical damage to the unit, or FPC cables, just dead, major disappointment, now it's just another display to sit in a pile for me and time to bust out the wallet to grab something elseUpdate: company reached out and kindly sent another unit over even after the time that had passed, tested the old cables in the new display and they worked as well so there is likely a problem with the usb port or touch IC.Don’t be like me and open/test the thing a year later

I think this is a great touchscreen option for little projects.It took some work to get it working properly on my Orange PI 5b so I figured I'd detail the problems and solutions I ran into here in case anyone comes across similar issues.Device: Orange PI 5BOS: Debian 11Firstly, I couldn't get any output via the HDMI cable. I'm not sure why, but I had to switch to a USB-C to HDMI cable.Once I had the proper cable I had to run the following commands.cvt 1024 576xrandr --newmode "1024x576_60.00" 46.50 1024 1064 1160 1296 576 579 584 599 -hsync +vsyncxrandr --addmode DP-1 "1024x576_60.00"xrandr --output DP-1 --mode "1024x576_60.00"After that I had to create a file, resolution_script.sh and copy the above commands into the file. Once I had that file saved, I created a cronjob that runs that script on startup and everything works as it should.If the commands didn't work for you, you can look into the xrandr page on the arch linux wiki under the section Adding undetected resolutions.

Used with RPi 500. Easy to use: Just plug and play. Everything including Touch screen works fine without any added software or fiddling. I just unplugged mouse and plugged in the USB cable for touchscreen activation. Excellent display quality. Watched movies on it. Great display of movie pictures as well as stills. Exactly as advertised. Altho not part of specs, it would have been nice to have sound capability. Lends itself to portability. Back panel is very sturdy. Place to mount a RPi module. Only real complaint is lack of some sort of protective cover for circuit board. Reasonable price. Recommended