Under active development. Breaking changes expected. APIs, installers, and UI may shift between releases.
A 480 by 320 panel. Touch native.
Usable today. Early access — some pieces run behind a feature flag and APIs may shift between releases.
WHY
More pixels. Less typing.
The OLED is the always-on glance. The LCD is what you reach for when you need to do something. Color, fonts that read at a distance, and gestures that mean what they mean on every other touchscreen.
Looking for the OLED and four buttons? That is the Physical UI page.
INSTALL
Plug it in. Reboot. It works.
One install command picks the panel up from the board profile, compiles and installs the device-tree overlay, registers the kernel modules, and primes touch. No dtoverlay edits, no kernel rebuild.
1. Detect
The board fingerprint resolves a hardware profile. The profile lists one or more supported displays. The installer picks the first match, or honors a flag when the operator wants a different one.
2. Provision
The overlay source compiles to a device-tree binary. Modules load on every boot. Resolution, rotation, and touch state land in a single config file the renderer reads at startup.
3. Bind
First boot brings up the panel. The renderer probes the framebuffer, the touch bridge attaches to the input device, and the Hardware tab populates with live state. No follow-up commands.
DASHBOARD
Native 480 by 320. Four tiles. One tap to drill in.
The dashboard is purpose-built for the LCD: bigger fonts and four stat tiles for the radio link, the drone, the mesh, and the uplink. Each one is a tap target.
Tap a tile to drill into that subsystem.
STATUS
Five screens. Five-second cycle.
The same five screens that cycle on the OLED are upscaled onto the LCD. Glance behavior stays identical across hardware. Tap to freeze on the active screen.
Link
RSSI, bitrate, FEC repaired and lost, channel, TX power.
Drone
Paired device id, flight mode, battery, GPS satellite count.
GCS
Connected client list with the pilot-in-command badge.
Net
Access point SSID and IP, tether IP, current uplink and reach.
System
CPU, RAM, temperature, uptime, agent version.
MESH PAIRING
Two devices. No laptop. Under two minutes.
The mesh-pairing flow on the touch surface. Each step has its own screen. No silent transitions, no modal dead ends.
First boot. Role unset. A hint is shown.
Pick a role. Tap apply to commit.
On the receiver, open a 60-second window.
On the relay, scan for the receiver.
Mesh up. Confirmed on both ends.
OVERLAYS
Every transition has its own screen.
Recovery, confirmation, and list views. A node without a second WiFi adapter shows a hint screen instead of a silent empty menu, so the operator knows the feature exists and how to unlock it.
Neighbors with link quality
Receiver lost, grace period
Confirm before leaving the mesh
Unified error overlay
TOUCH
Tap. Swipe. Long-press. Drag.
Gesture classification is shared across every screen with the same thresholds and behavior. Hit zones are page-local so a tile tap maps to the right detail page regardless of theme.
HARDWARE
Three boards today. The profile system takes more.
A new board adds a displays block to its profile and the installer picks it up. No code change in the renderer.
| Cubie A7Z | Rock 5C Lite | Raspberry Pi 4B | |
|---|---|---|---|
| SoC | Allwinner A733 | RK3582 | BCM2711 |
| Panel | Waveshare 3.5" RPi LCD (A) | Waveshare 3.5" RPi LCD (A) | Waveshare 3.5" RPi LCD (A) |
| Display driver | ILI9486 | ILI9486 | ILI9486 |
| Touch | ADS7846 | ADS7846 | ADS7846 |
| Resolution | 480 × 320 | 480 × 320 | 480 × 320 |
SoC
Panel
Display driver
Touch
Resolution
Display profiles live in each board profile. Adding a new pair is a profile change plus an overlay file.
MISSION CONTROL
The GCS sees what the panel sees.
The Hardware tab mirrors the on-device display state: type, controller, resolution, rotation, last-touch age, current page, and calibration. Calibrate from the desk before the operator walks out the door.
Live mirror
The local-display card shows up the moment the panel binds. If the panel goes dark, the card flips to a degraded state without taking down the rest of the Hardware tab.
Calibrate from the desk
The five-point calibration wizard runs from Mission Control as well as from a long-press on the panel. Calibration data persists across reboots, so the field operator never picks up a drifting surface.
A panel for the field. A tab for the desk.
Wiring, calibration, and supported displays are in the public docs.
Display docs