Using the LCD with your Raspberry Pi

Download LCD drivers: LCD Driver by waveshare (need network when installing)

• Copy LCD driver onto the USB disk.
• Insert the USB disk into the USB host on your Raspberry Pi
• Copy the LCD drivers into the Pi's filesystem, e.g /home/pi
• Open a terminal and use the cd command to navigate to the directory where the driver is

e.g. if the directory is "/home/pi" then you need to use the command "cd /home/pi"

• Install 7zip
  sudo apt-get install p7zip-full

• Unzip LCD-show-master.zip
  7z x LCD-show-master.zip
  

• Enter the LCD-show directory
  cd /home/pi/LCD-show-master
ls
  

• Install driver
  sudo ./LCD35-show
  

After you run the command, the system will automatically restart and switch to the LCD display.

Restore Output to HDMI

cd /home/pi/LCD-show/
sudo ./LCD-hdmi

When using the LCD display driver be sure to power off the system using software rather than switching the power off abruptly to avoid damage to the LCD.