# Are the pitft nodes dead?
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/are-the-pitft-nodes-dead/2406
**Category:** General
**Created:** [19 August 2018 18:02 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/are-the-pitft-nodes-dead/2406 "2018-08-19T18:02:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@gpriestland](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/gpriestland)
#### Post date: [19 August 2018 18:02 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/are-the-pitft-nodes-dead/2406/1 "2018-08-19T18:02:19Z")
Having recently acquired a pi with the Adafruit pitft board, I was going to have a play with the node-red-contrib-pitft and node-red-contrib-pitft-touch.
However I can't get a successful install for either of them. I noticed that these are pretty old nodes with very little information on them.
Does this mean they are effectively dead or am I doing something wrong.
Is there any alternative to them?
Thanks
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### Author:  [@ukmoose](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/ukmoose)
#### Post date: [19 August 2018 21:18 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/are-the-pitft-nodes-dead/2406/2 "2018-08-19T21:18:57Z")
just because they haven’t been updated in a while doesn’t mean they shouldn’t work, although they are quite niche.
if you can’t get them to work I would suggest finding the nodes in [flows.nodered.org](http://flows.nodered.org) and following the links to github where you can open an issue that will be sent to the author.
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### Author:  [@JeroenKeetels](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/JeroenKeetels)
#### Post date: [17 January 2020 21:20 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/are-the-pitft-nodes-dead/2406/3 "2020-01-17T21:20:08Z")
I also try to download this node but it doesn't work in any way. "node-red-contrib-pitft-touch" is downloadeble but "node-red-contrib-pitft" isn't.
It seems like an easy tool to use. Do I have to set or install anything to make this work?
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### Author:  [@zenofmud](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/zenofmud)
#### Post date: [17 January 2020 22:12 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/are-the-pitft-nodes-dead/2406/4 "2020-01-17T22:12:36Z")
As for node-red-contrib-pitft, it looks like the repository was taken down on GitHub so it no longer exists.
And the author of node-red-contrib-pitft-touch was last active on GitHub in August 2017 so I wouldn't look for much support if the node doesn't work...
Looks like your only path would be to clone node-red-contrib-pitft-touch and see if you could fix it.
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### Author:  [@JeroenKeetels](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/JeroenKeetels)
#### Post date: [18 January 2020 10:12 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/are-the-pitft-nodes-dead/2406/5 "2020-01-18T10:12:18Z")
Thank you for your reply. I am no programmer that is wy I use Node-red. I have 8 different photos that I want to see on the screen and I want to control them separately. For example with 1 I want to see photo 1 and with a 2 photo 2. I connected a “D02 1.8 inch TFT LCD Module Lcd-scherm SPI seriële 51 drivers 4 IO driver TFT Resolutie 128\*160 1.8 inch TFT interface” display. I had thought to download the Node pitft and secretly hoped to be able to set a file location in this Node. Call a number or a name and you're done. Unfortunately hope make you dream. I can also connect a sd card to this screen and put the images on it, will that be easier?
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### Author:  [@JeroenKeetels](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/JeroenKeetels)
#### Post date: [31 January 2020 07:11 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/are-the-pitft-nodes-dead/2406/6 "2020-01-31T07:11:41Z")
Does anyone have experience with a tft display controlled from node-red?