In the first post the server was running and the display was still in the mail. It showed up in July and did nothing. The screen sat on a static “install dock and USB-C” image, it didn’t react to power, and no TRMNL Wi-Fi network appeared. I tried the dock in different positions, a few USB-C cables, a wall adapter and a laptop port, then wrote to TRMNL support asking for a replacement. ...
Correction, October 2026. The display arrived and is running, and parts of this post are wrong or no longer used. Part 2 has what ended up on the screen. I’ve left the original below as a record of what I did before the device arrived, so don’t follow it as written. Wrong: the panel is 10.3 inches at 1872 × 1404 with 16 grays, not 7.5 inches. BYOS doesn’t need the Developer Edition (step 1 under “What’s next”). And the server I run is TRMNL’s own byos_fastapi, not the project linked under “The server”. ...