🚀 Elevate your screen game—portable power meets pro-level precision!
The ELECROW 10.1 Inch Portable Monitor combines a vibrant 1920x1080 IPS touchscreen with versatile connectivity options including HD and VGA ports. Designed for seamless use with Raspberry Pi, gaming consoles, and PCs, it features built-in dual speakers and flexible mounting solutions, making it the ultimate portable display for professionals and gamers on the move.
B**T
Great for Raspberry PI, but read this to get best results.
This is a nifty monitor for a Raspberry Pi Zero project that I am working on. Hauling around a monstrous monitor does not make sense for a computer scarcely bigger than my thumb.I have tried some of the small, cheap screens that you can get that just plug into a Raspberry Pi, and they have their place. Sure, they have touch input, but the resolution is quite low. As I have to sometimes do some development work on the PI, this smaller screen is often insufficient for my needs.So I was looking for a bigger screen with better resolution. I found this one, with 1920x1200 resolution (for real resolution, many screen sellers will lie and say that it is an HD screen when it is really a 320x240 resolution screen that is capable of displaying downsampled 1920x1200 images - an outright lie in my books).I got this and experienced two hiccups.The first is that the menu is by default in Mandarin. Since I don't read Mandarin, and in the infinite wisdom of the designers of this, they chose all of the menu entries that you need to change the language be in Mandarin by default. I have seen this before, it it seems to be a really odd design decision - if you can read Mandarin, you don't need to change the menu, if if you can't then you cannot tell how to change it. Fortunately, there are a few reviews here that tell you how to change it to English. In the end, I really didn't need the menu, but I wanted to see what the options were.Onto the second hiccup.I hooked this up, and the image was nice indeed. I was excited. Then something happened. The screen blanked, made a bit of a soft "bzzzzt" sound stayed off for a second or so, and came back on. Then it happened again in a few minutes. I checked the HDMI connector and the power connector, and all seemed good.So I worked on it for a while, and this continued. Very aggravating. So I tried it on a PC, and it was fine. I wanted to hold off on my review until I got to the bottom of this.So I did some searching. Then I found the following suggestion:Open up a terminal window and run "sudo leafpad /boot/config.txt" (without quotes of course).Search for the following entries, remove the '#' character at the beginning of its line (if present), and change to the following values:hdmi_force_hotplug=1hdmi_drive=1hdmi_mode=16disable_overscan=1Save the file and reboot.It worked wonders. There had been a black border around the screen (that I didn't really notice at the time) that disappeared as well. So the problem was with the configuration on the Pi, not the monitor.Very happy now and I will probably be buying at least one more.
U**Y
This one set up fine, however the colors were washed out to an ...
Bought 2 of these as a 4th and 5th monitor for use as smaller displays for lesser stuff of importance while leaving me a lot of retail space on my desk. Originally I would have given this a 5stars as I purchased one as a test. It worked perfectly out the box, vibrant colors, no problems setting anything up, heck, it started in English rather than mandarin.I've lowered this to 3stars however as what I suspect isn't too rare of a problem with monitors crept up with the second one purchased the same day. This one set up fine, however the colors were washed out to an excessive extent. I fiddled around with all the, admittedly, limited options on the device aswell as my own computer settings. However nothing could bring this second monitor even close to the value I was getting from the first and there was no one I could keep this when I had 4 monitors with perfect colors and one without. As such I docked 2 stars as I return the second one but will raise it back to four stars should the third one work perfectly.Aside from color issues and vibrancy problems, these monitors are great. Their low profile works perfectly for someone who wants something smaller yet without a sacrifice in quality. The display is comparable to my 3 main monitors aside from the obvious size difference(3x 23in vs a 10.1). Honestly, atleast from the side I know of, if space is an issue and you just want another monitor for use as a small client for perhaps web browsing, holding programs such as irc out of the way to leave you your main display(s) free, etc, then I can recommend this provided you get one with proper coloring.Edit: July 23, 2018Updated to 5 stars cause honestly, I couldn't find anything wrong. I returned the one with the color problem, got a new one. Tested them both for a few days and they're perfect for their job. I don't think it's worth it to dock a star for one faulty item. So review will stand but with this update that I'm pleased as punch with my purchase. I doubt I'll ever need more than 2 but for the two I have, their price and quality is well worth what I used them for.
M**N
Picture and touchscreen is great, mounting takes some work
Picture and touchscreen are great, it is a perfect size and does exactly what I need it to do.It includes a stand that doesn't weigh anything and angles the monitor upwards. It might be okay if you put the monitor on a shelf, but if intend to actually use it as a touchscreen (and don't want it to move when you touch it,) or want to look at it straight on, you should get something better.It has VESA mounting holes and uses a 75x75 pattern so no problem there, but for some reason they decided to use M3 screws, which isn't the standard size for that hole pattern, (it is supposed to be M4.) So you'll need to go get those and some fender washers so the heads don't slip through the holes in the mount. Which isn't that big deal, (I know where there is a hardware store,) but the entire point of the VESA mounting standard is so you don't have to do things like that.After a few hours of work the mounting situation was taken care of, but... 4/5 stars.
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