No "Display" Tab showing up

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I just did a fresh install of Ropieee on a Raspberry Pi 3 B+ with an official 7" display. The display is used successfully since powering on.
During the installation process a see “Touchscreen detected” and “installing TS software” scrolling by. After the installation process the screen shows Ropie (Connection failure, etc.).

However, when I go on the web interface, there is no “Display” tab to set the zone for the display.

Meanwhile I have done the 4th clean install to make sure I didn’t do something stupid while installing, but no change :wink:

Any ideas, someone?

Tobi

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Hi @Tobias_Henockl,

Yes I have. I’ve found a (timing) bug that you run into unfortunately.
I’m preparing a fix for that, hopefully I can release that today.

Thanks

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Exactly the same issue
Screen shows « Zone not found », ok but how to set the parameter if no access to this tab.
By the way I have a Flirc USB on the same raspberry - don’t know if that change anything, when I unplug it, there is no change

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No that has nothing to do with the display not showing up.

You also ran into a nasty bug that I’m busy with fixing.

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Glad to hear it’s a known bug and you’re after it :smiley:

So I’ll wait for the fix, thank you!

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Ah, I take it that this is the bug I ran into a couple of days ago with the exact same symptoms Tobias has. I’m glad you are working on a solution.

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The new release has solved the issue - thanks a lot for the reactivity !

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Reinstalled, works as a charm out of the box. Thank you for the nice work!

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Five years later, I’m running into this same issue. Just connected a Pi 3B to an official Pi display and everything is up and running, with music playing to an attached end point … but no “Display” tab in the browser setup menu.

Any suggestions? Did I miss something important in my setup?

[Edit: in case anyone ends up here the way I did, changing a setting in the system that forced a config and then reboot got it to recognize the touch screen and add the display tab into the browser and everything is working swimmingly now.]

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I happen to run into the same issue: On a setup running ropieee stable for a long time (pi 3a, official 7” display) that i needed to do a clean re-install on, the display tab does no longer show up. The display itself shows all boot msg, but ropieee does not detect it. I did 3 re-installs and changed the pi3 to a factory fresh one with no luck. Triggering configure does not help either.

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Have a look at the connection. Assuming you’re running the latest version. But check wires first

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I am on 2026.04 did 3 fresh installs and tried 2 pi 3A boards. I did re-plug the ribbon cable 2 times on both ends, always with the same result: Boot msgs visible, display not detected by ropieee.

I did the initial ropieee setup using the built in AP method as the pi 3 A has no ethernet.

On a separate note: Does the AP setup method set the right wifi country code?

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I just read your message…

From the documentation:

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So that’s the reason. On the Pi 3 A+ this has been extremely unreliable, hence this message.

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Ok thanks. Sorry for not catching that. I did run that setup for many months without any issues so i never checked the docs. My bad. I swapped in a pi 3 B and after one configure it works again.

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No worries. Before 2026.01 the Pi 3 A+ was actually never supported formally, but ‘it just works’. During the cycle of 2026.01 it became clear that with the newer kernel there were serious issues with screen support, so at that time the choice was: do not support the 3A+ at all, or support it but without the screen.

But glad we sorted it out. I initially also missed your remark about the 3A+ so…

Thanks!