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Creating a RaspberryPi 3b+ Home Assistant Screen

 Items used: 1. Raspberry Pi 3b+ 2. 32 Gig Micro SD 3. Raspberry Pi 7" Touch Screen Display - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0153R2A9I 4.  SmartiPi Touch 1 - Case - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01HV97F64 5. FullPageOS 6. Notepad++(DO NOT USE REGULAR NOTEPAD) Download the latest build from here: http://unofficialpi.org/Distros/FullPageOS/ Use the Pi SD Card Imager of your choice to flash the image to the sd card. After it images, before you boot edit the following: In the config.txt file do the following: Under RPI4: comment out "dtoverlay=vc4-fkms-v3d" under rpi4 Under All: comment out the very last line and uncomment "dtoverlay=vc4-fkms-v3d" Save and close that config file. To configure wifi if you are going that route: Open /boot/fullpageos-wpa-supplicant. txt in a text editor. Locate the WPA/WPA2 secured section in the text file. Uncomment network={ to } (4 lines) by removing the # signs from the beginning of each line. Replace put SSID here with y