Every Guide for This Raspberry Pi Touchscreen Is Out of Date. Here's What Works on moOde 10
I have a Raspberry Pi 3A+ running moOde as a little music player, with an IQaudio DAC+ on top. Adding the DAC took about two minutes. Adding a cheap 3.5" touchscreen to it took an entire evening, and not because the job is hard — because every single guide I found was written for software that doesn't exist anymore. So here's the version that actually works, on moOde 10, in 2026. If you're staring at a black screen right now and wondering what you broke, you probably didn't break anything. Skip to the checkpoint in Step 8. What I'm working with Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+ (512 MB — this matters later) IQaudio DAC+ HAT 3.5" RPi display, ILI9486 panel with an XPT2046 touch controller — the "goodtft/LCD-show" type you find everywhere for about ten quid moOde 10.0.0, which is RaspiOS 13.2 Trixie 64-bit, kernel 6.12.47 Get your audio working before you touch the display. Seat the DAC, pick IQaudIO Pi-DAC+ under Configure → Audio, play somet...