this Raspberry Pi belongs on your wall

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Chuck unboxes and wall-mounts the Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2, sent to him by Raspberry Pi, intending to use it as a Home Assistant and home lab dashboard. He covers the headline specs: a native portrait 1200 by 1920 IPS panel at 224 PPI with an 85-degree viewing angle, 400 candelas per square metre (described as 60% brighter than the original), anti-glare, 24-bit colour, 16 mm thin, 10-finger touch with a maximum 35 millisecond response, and an $80 price. The box contains little more than the screen, a DSI ribbon cable and a GPIO power cable, and an on-screen keyboard appears automatically, so no mouse or keyboard is needed. The big limitation is compatibility: it only supports the Raspberry Pi 5 and Compute Modules, not older Pis. His fresh install initially showed nothing; after swapping Pis, SD cards and power supplies and giving up overnight, the fix turned out to be updating the Pi 5 firmware (EEPROM), after which the display was recognised automatically. He criticises how far the Pi sticks out behind the screen, which makes wall mounting awkward, and notes there are no speakers. He ends up mounting it with a drill and screws and runs Touch Kio, an open-source kiosk app acting as a locked-down full-screen browser that survives reboots, displaying three custom Home Assistant dashboards built via the websocket API while the Home Assistant server itself runs on a Proxmox VM elsewhere.

Key takeaways

The Touch Display 2 costs $80 and offers 1200 by 1920 resolution, 224 PPI, 400 candelas per square metre brightness and 10-finger touch
It only works with the Raspberry Pi 5 and Compute Modules — older Pis such as the 3 and 4 are not supported
Connection needs just two cables: a DSI ribbon cable for the display and a power cable to the GPIO pins
If a fresh install shows a blank screen, update the Raspberry Pi 5 firmware/EEPROM so the display is recognised automatically
Touch Kio, an open-source kiosk app, turns the Pi into a reboot-proof full-screen browser for Home Assistant dashboards

Episode details: published July 23, 2026 · 8:45 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are NetworkChuck’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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