Quick Setup

Quick Setup your Raspberry Pi to use the Waveshare E-Paper Display library

1. Download and install Raspberry Pi OS on your Raspberry
2. Open the config.txt on the Raspbery Pi boot partition and add:

dtparam=spi=on
#Add this line if you get "System.IO.IOException: Device or resource busy : '/sys/class/gpio/export'"
#dtoverlay=spi0-1cs,cs0_pin=28

3. wget https://dot.net/v1/dotnet-install.sh (from https://docs.microsoft.com/de-de/dotnet/core/install/linux-scripted-manual#scripted-install)
4. sudo /bin/bash dotnet-install.sh -c Current --install-dir /opt/dotnet
5. vi /etc/profile.d/dotnet.sh with content:

export DOTNET_ROOT=/opt/dotnet
export PATH=$PATH:/opt/dotnet

6. apt-get install libgdiplus
7. reboot
8. run dotnet --version to check if it is working
9. Compile the example with your Display and copy the published files to the Raspberry Pi
10. Go into the example directory and run: dotnet Waveshare.Example.dll
11. Your display should start to flicer and show the image
12. Have fun :-)