What Do I Build Next? A Raspberry Pi NAS with 7" Touchscreen. This weeks' project was to utilize a 7" touchscreen kit "soon to be marketed by SunFounder", an acrylic baseplate, a Raspberry Pi 4B+ with 2gb using a 1TB Sata OMV NAS boot drive.
This will be my first usb bootable Raspberry Pi 4B+ project, and my first NAS.
I had envisioned downloading all my "199 VUDU accessed movies, while I can" and have them accessible locally without Internet Streaming issues and carrying all the DVD/Blu-Ray Discs. Will that be streaming?
Setting up a NAS will require some networking research with setting up "shares, permissions', and mapped drives" for Android and Windows devices and of course other Raspberry Pi's. SunFounder has a good write-up based upom Open Medi Vault and their NAS project (I also have the SunFounder-NAS kit based upon a smaller screen accessed only via the OMV web interface).
First of all, some history. A month ago (today is Sept. 17th), SunFounder's Product Experience Officer reached out to me via email:
"We are currently working on our new 7-inch touch screen, so I'm reach out to you to see if you have any interests in testing this touchscreen?
- It reserves hard drive mounting position, and is compatible with 2.5-inch mechanical hard drive and solid state drive. If you use an SSD instead of a Micro SD card, it can increase the capacity of Raspberry Pi as well as improve the operation speed.
- The 40-pin interface is also reserved, so you can connect 40-pin cable or connect sensors directly to ensure the scalability of Raspberry Pi.
You can use Raspberry Pi 4B/3B+ or 3B with this 7‘’ touchscreen, and It would be better if you have a 2.5’’ SATA SSD by your side.
I also attached a guide file, hope it will give you a general overview of this 7’’ Pro Touch Screen."
He also provided a pdf info guide to review before it was sent. (see attachments)
The first part of this project is to assemble the 7-inch Touchscreen with 2.5 inch SATA drive and Raspberry Pi. I had a 1TB Western Digital SATA drive and a Raspberry Pi 4B+ with 2gb available. "Now where was that USB to SATA adapter cable" this kit didn't come with one... was this an oversight?
And now that the hardware is assembled, we can focus on the software:
Be sure to review and follow the proper imaging of a USB drive to boot using a Raspberry Pi without an SD card
" https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/raspberry-pi-set-up-how-to,6029.html "
" https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/boot-raspberry-pi-4-usb "
Be sure ro review and follow the SunFounder NAS setup document
" https://blog.sunfounder.com/diy-nas-kit/ "
" https://docs.sunfounder.com/projects/ts-7/en/latest/ "
Be sure to review and follow the proper imaging of a USB drive to boot using a Raspberry Pi without an SD card
" https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/raspberry-pi-set-up-how-to,6029.html "
" https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/boot-raspberry-pi-4-usb "
Be sure to review and follow the SunFounder NAS setup document
" https://blog.sunfounder.com/diy-nas-kit/ "
Once "share(s) are setup" copy content as required. I created/mapped the share on my windows 10 pc and then copied three movies onto the OMV-NAS.
" https://docs.sunfounder.com/projects/ts-7/en/latest/ "
Setup hardware and software videos- OpenMediaVault-NAS
Overall thoughts:
1. My kit was not final product configuration, not all cables and documentation required were provided
2. SATA standoff screw threads were too long
3. USB-C power cable for RPi was not provided, although two micro-usb, a HDMI to mini-hdmi, cables were
4. Documentation for RASPAD/TS-7 touchscreen setup and calibration did not work correctly for me, I could not get right click function to work. recommended enabling software did not restart but mouse did working by default with RPi standard image.
5. When the micro-usb cable was connected from touchscreen "touch" port to Raspberry Pi USB 2.0 port the onscreen mouse did not work
6. External SATA adapter and 12 vdc 2a power supply for sata drive was not included
7. heat sinks and/or fan for Raspberry Pi were not included
8. This HDMI screen product and kit when assembled following the directions that I located and followed resulted in a functional NAS product that could share files between a Windows PC and the RPI and NAS products.
9. I do not know final cost of this project, ~$212 USD.
Time was 4-8 hours plus due to pictures and note creation and final "share setup".
10. I did not test the auxiliary GPIO ports or camera with this kit. I was thinking of adding the RPi camera for "Motion-Detection" and logging as well.
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