Hosyond 3.5 Inches TFT LCD Touch Screen Shield Display Module 480x320 SPI Serial ILI9488 with Touch Pen Compatible with Arduino R3/Mega2560 Development Board

works very well. easy to set up. compatable with ESP32 and Arduino

Nice little display. I didn't like their touch driver but was able to use a dofferent one.

Update to previous review! Turns out the problem was the Ardunio Mega 2650 I was using had a faulty voltage regulator on the 3.3V outlet so SPI communication would not work correctly. I tried a NodeMCU ESP8266 instead with the TFT_eSPI library by Bowder and it all works. And a MUCH simpler setup (no level shifters, etc) Touch sensitivity is a bit sluggish but acceptable for what I need to do so all is well at a great price! Previous review... Could not get it to work - the classic "white screen" problem. Note that unit requires level shifters to work with Ardunio Mega 2560 - that's not evident in the initial product description so read ALL the details carefully. It does comes with documentation and libraries you can download from vendor site but examples did not help and after checking and rechecking wiring and level shifter setup I gave up. Will try another brand.

The Hosyond 3.5 Inches TFT is an ILI9488 -- this doesn't have a default Adafruit driver in the Arduino IDE -- you have to manually install the library from GITHUB and edit the User_Setup.H file to get this screen to work successfully with an ESP32. It took me some time to get it working properly. In retrospect, the 3.2 inch display is an ILI9341, and works out the box, with the standard Adafruit ILI9348 library. The extra 0.3 inches wasn't worth all the trouble. I'll get the 3.2 screens from now on. The unit works fine and is a good display, once you get it working. There are no instructions with the screen, so you have to go searching for how to get it to work.

If you have a lot of patience, you might eventually get this TFT display to work. It says it is compatible with Mega2560 but not out of the box it isn't. And the Mega2560 does not directly plug into the display like a lot of other TFT displays do. That means you have to run individual wires and probably have to use an ESP32 instead. Overall the website is extremely misleading and returning to Amazon (recvd used unit!).

For first screen I've ever written a program for I am honored to have you. It's the perfect little thing not to hard to use and the language once you get use to it easy to understand. Thank you.

This display works, but buyers should know that it is not an ST7796S panel even though the listing and documentation say it is. After a lot of testing, I confirmed the controller is actually an ILI9488, which requires a completely different initialization sequence and driver. If you try to use it with the Adafruit ST7796S library, you’ll get partial updates, white screens, clipping, and other strange behavior. Once I switched to TFT_eSPI with the ILI9488 driver, the display worked correctly at the full 480×320 resolution. Colors, rotation, and performance were all fine after that. The hardware itself is decent for the price, but the listing is misleading. Anyone planning to use this with ESP32 or Arduino should be aware that it needs the ILI9488 driver, not ST7796S.

Great Tool!

Ça fait plusieurs mois que je l’utilise et ça fonctionne toujours très bien Très facile à programmer

Graphics test works, constantly crashes when touch pins and calibration test are ran. Been at it consistently for a work, 3.3v to 5v changed my strap pins, tried everything and nothing gets the touch to boot properly

After libraries were installed and wired the LCD screen correctly to my Arduino UNO, all I got was a blank white screen. No matter what I did—installing new libraries, reconnecting every pin, going through youtube videos to find solutions—it still only displayed a white screen. Had to return it because I suspect something is either wrong with the test case codes they provide or the LCD screen itself is faulty. Documentation was fairly confusing too.