PicoW on Waveshare LCD2

[Selene53]

Hello, I’m trying to get a Pico W working with a Waveshare LED2 Spi display . I can make it operational using the pico drivers but not the rpipicow drivers. I suspect there is some interference between the Pico WiFi board and the Waveshare SPi GPIO pins. Wifi works but not the display unless I use the the board=pico. but then I cant use the WiFi.

The display does no operate if I use the board=rpipicow (in platformIO) however the program does run.

here is the waveshare board:
https://www.waveshare.com/wiki/Template:Pico_LCD_2_Spec

I wonder if there are any workarounds

The Waveshare pins are as follows:

#define TFT_DC 8 // Data Command control pin·
#define TFT_CS 9 // Chip select control pin
#define TFT_SCLK 10
#define TFT_MOSI 11
//#define TFT_MISO 12
#define TFT_RST 12 // Reset pin (could connect to RST pin)
#define TFT_BL 13 // LED back-light

Thanks for any help

#include <Arduino.h>
#include "SPI.h"
#include "TFT_eSPI.h"
#include <WiFi.h>
#include <WebServer.h>
#include "funcs.h"
TFT_eSPI tft = TFT_eSPI();
const char *ssid = "mySSID";
const char *password = "myPassword";
void SetupWiFi()
{
WiFi.mode(WIFI_STA);

WiFi.begin(ssid, password);
while (WiFi.status() != WL_CONNECTED)
{
delay(500);
Serial.print(".");
}
Serial.println("");
Serial.println("WiFi connected.");
Serial.print("IP address: ");
Serial.println(WiFi.localIP());
Serial.print("MAC address: ");
Serial.println(WiFi.macAddress());
Serial.println();
}
void setup(void) {
Serial.begin(115200);
delay(50);
Serial.println("Starting WiFi");
SetupWiFi();
Serial.println("Starting WiFi");
tft.begin();
tft.println("Starting display");
tft.setRotation(1);
}
void loop() {

Serial.println("In Loop "+String(millis()));
delay(50);
Serial.println(WiFi.localIP());
tft.fillScreen(TFT_BLACK);
tft.setTextWrap(false);
tft.setTextFont(7);
tft.setCursor(48,0);
tft.setTextColor(TFT_RED);
tft.setTextSize(2);
tft.println(fmtNum((float)millis()/(float)100,2,2));
tft.fillCircle(10,45,10,TFT_BLUE);

tft.setCursor(48,120);
tft.setTextColor(TFT_GREEN);
tft.setTextSize(2);
tft.println(fmtNum((float)millis()/(float)100,2,2));
tft.fillCircle(10,165,10,TFT_YELLOW);
delay(1000);
}

[env:rpipicow]
platform = raspberrypi
board = rpipicow ; (rpipicow) doesnt display (pico) does but there are no wifi driver
framework = arduino
lib_deps = bodmer/TFT_eSPI@^2.5.43