ESP32 Touchscreen Monitor 5 Inch TFT LCD Touch Screen 800x480 SPI HMI Display ESP32-S3-WROOM

Totally incomplete and unusable documentation. You don't sell stuff like this on Amazon to development labs, you sell it to home experimenters and beginning code writers. Instead of 'how to get started using this thing' documentation, the seller has included a demo code example that, because of missing libraries, doesn't compile - even when you follow their video step by step .Would it have been so difficult to include a "hello world" example that wouldn't require all the exotic lvlg- xyz and sometimes y - demo.h libraries that are nowhere to be found?=======OK! after banging around on it for a couple of days, I got it to work... and it works pretty nicely. So much so, that I bought the 7 inch version direct from the company.BUT!!!Everything I said about the documentation is true. Once you cut out all the extraneous stuff in the demo so that you can see what is necessary to light it up, it is pretty easy to use.They really need to improve their documentation.

I am a professional firmware engineer, and this board was pretty typical for Arduino.Arduino is a moving target, so online instructions don't always match the IDE.Anyway, the best advice I can give is to follow the instructions carefully, paying particular attention to the Tools menu board settings. The board is "ESP32S3 Dev Module".The libraries folder path is also important: for Arduino IDE 2.2.1 it isC:\Users\<user name>\Documents\Arduino\LibrariesIf you copy this folder anywhere else then the project will not compile.After compiling successfully you must put the board into program mode by holding the BOOT button and then pressing the RESET button momentarily, then release both buttons. The screen should go dark and stay dark. You must do this before you upload.If the build was successful but it failed to upload due to a serial port problem then you can use the arduino-cli to skip the build. Here is the command, you'll need to change the user name, com port, and project path. Also, the board doesn't automatically reset after programming, so you'll need to press the RESET button.c:\arduino-cli upload C:\Users\<user name>\Documents\Arduino\Elecrow/LvglWidgets-5.0-NOSPEAK -p COM4 -b esp32:esp32:esp32s3I hope this helps someone: it took me about 4 hours to get it right.MORE..The Windows 10 driver is ch341.. just search for "ch341ser" and you'll find it.

Most of the time when I purchase a microcontroller based product such as an Arduino, ESP32 or RPi, it's for a work-related purpose. However, this one was really different. I actually was looking forward to using this in a project for myself. Imagine my disappointment when I found out that this implementation is so poorly supported. In short, I wasted almost five hours before I realized that this is supposed to be an easy setup. If you aren't a demanding maker, then this might work. If you're just looking to tinker, again, this probably will be perfect. But if you have a specific objective then you should look elsewhere. This isn't ready for prime time.When I purchase a microcontroller based product, there are two simple litmus tests. This product failed both. In fairness, the demo program did run out of the box but all it did was display an interactive slideshow, I wanted to test the functions of the product. The tests I ran were:1) Can I upload a program from the standard libraries. This partially worked but had very poor library support.2) Can I restore it to the factory settings? This product failed in that capacity. Once I wiped the demo program, I couldn't get it to load again from the libraries on their Wiki page.First, this product is not easy to find on their website. The part number is not listed exactly as they represent it on the Amazon page. I did eventually find a page that had a near identical description and the photo matched the product 99%, the print on the back was slightly different. They do a good job in documenting the support. Their wiki page is complete but it's not been checked for accuracy. When you download the entire library set from their Google Drive(really? Can't afford a real website???) you get a series of libraries that are incomplete and have many dependencies. That is not unusual for a Arduino class of product. However, if you're selling a complete product which this was supposed to be, then the expectation is that you tested it before you started shipping. After I spent hours chasing down dubious libraries off of Github(by that I mean experimental code with most versions not greater than a 0.10 releases), I did get the "factory code" to finally compile after five hours of chasing 3rd party code on the Internet but then ran into syntax errors in the code itself. In my view, I wasn't about to debug their code in order to test whether their product actually supported everything they claimed, that's their job.Final conclusion: Back in the box. I did leave upload code that left a simple message that will pop on the screen on power up if they try to sell this again as new. It says "This is a defective product". 😜

I wanted to like this. I paid a little more thinking this product was documented well and should be easy to implement in whatever project I have. WRONG. I spent DAY'S trying different libraries, downloading a graphics program and learning that, searching the WWW and YT for anything helpful. I found tons of information but not ONE works. I'm on week 3 of trying to figure it out. I'll change my review if I do.