So ive recently fell DEEP into this hobby, and have a few RAK boards. my friends and i have been working on our nodes, and we originally were going to go with the OLED display, but we all are BAD at soldering. Plus i find RAK charges alot for the screens. So we found out that RAK sells an e-ink display! I also found a feature request on github, asking if they can add the 14000 E-ink to the firmware. They said they did, as of 2022, BUT I SWEAR FOR THE LIFE OF ME. I cant figure out how to enable the screen! ive tried all the OLED-Overide settings ive tried diffrent CPU boards ive tried diffrent baseboard and screen.

IT HAST to be somthing im being stupid about right? i cant find anything online other than the black and white screen is suported and a 18 second video of some guy getting it working. but no instructons or breadcrumbs to make it work.

Any help would be very much appreciated!

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    2 months ago

    My bad, I see they call out the firmware but don’t actually provide it. :( You might need to compile it yourself from source. I can’t say that’s easy from my experience with the code.

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      2 months ago

      Your right you gotta build it from source. It was a little tedious, but i am luckily a chronic linux nerd. 1000003803]!

      Annoying part was figuring out Git. My default the meshtastic guide has you build bleed edge firmware.

      I made 3 builds

      Bleeding edge Alpha And stable

      Stable has a simple and old UI compared to the other 2. So ill stick with alpha.

      Thanks for the help