In article ,
 Stephan Elinghaus  writes:
> Hello to all,
>
> I'm looking for a small portable display which can be used in
> combination with almost any RPi (model B/B+/2/3).
> Most important: The display should be powered by its own battery (no
> external power source except for charging the battery) and it should be
> as small as possible. The resolution  can be quite low as long as a
> standard console font can be read, and the display does not need to
> have features like a touchscreen or something like that. The battery
> does not have to last for a long time either, one hour would be way
> enough. A straight-forward plug'n'play minimal display would be great..
>
> The main purpose will be to plug it in and get the console
> displayed (no graphical interface required, just simple shell
> environment), mostly on headless Raspberries for troubleshooting issues.
> I don't care about HDMI or the composite-AV-Port as long as the
> text output can be read.
>
> Does anyone have some hints for me?

I use the serial port for this.
You can get a USB-serial adapter which works with the Pi's 3.3V
serial port directly from Adafruit, and it's very cheap. Use it
with a laptop/netbook/whatever with a serial port. Can probably
even use a smartphone with a terminal app.

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