The Natural Philosopher  wrote:

> 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

Agreed. The OP is overthinking this. Any decent console app on a smart
device or laptop will serve this purpose.

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