How to connect Raspberry Pi to BeadaPanel 7" USB LCD Display

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BeadaPanel is a versatile media display. It can playback images and videos in various common format. In this application, BeadaPanel is used as an USB monitor/display for Raspberry Pi mini PC.

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Pre-requirements

• A Raspberry Pi mini PC
  A BeadaPanel display kit
  A Micro USB cable

Procedures
1. Power on your Raspberry Pi mini PC
2. Connect BeadaPanel to Raspberry Pi by a Micro USB cable
3. BeadaPanel will be automaticaly recognized as a USB mass storage device by Raspberry Pi

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pi@raspberrypi:~ $ lsblk
NAME        MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda           8:0    0  9.1G  0 disk
├─sda1        8:1    0 43.9M  0 part /media/pi/boot
└─sda2        8:2    0  4.9G  0 part /media/pi/rootfs
mmcblk0     179:0    0  7.4G  0 disk
├─mmcblk0p1 179:1    0 43.9M  0 part /boot
└─mmcblk0p2 179:2    0  7.4G  0 part /
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ ls /media/pi/boot/bpd
bpd

4. Locate and run beadapanel deamon in /media/pi/boot/bpd folder

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pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo cp /media/pi/boot/bpd/bpd /usr/bin 
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/bpd
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo bpd
BeadaPanel Daemon Ver. 1.0

5. Run beadapanel deamon from booting

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$ sudo nano /etc/rc.local -> add new line before "exit 0" with "/usr/bin/bpd &" without quote 
$ sudo reboot