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echo: rberrypi
to: STEPHAN ELINGHAUS
from: THE NATURAL PHILOSOPHER
date: 2017-02-03 09:51:00
subject: Re: small portable displa

On 03/02/17 07:40, Stephan Elinghaus wrote:
> 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?
>
find an old netbook or similar and i9nstall a basic linux on it and
network in to the pi.

Honestly, it will be  cheaper than some kind of tiny hdmi or so on monitor


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