PADD VS phad

Yeah, I was thinking about making a PiHole version this weekend. But in the meantime, there's also PADD which does something similar for PiHole :)

Looking at https://github.com/pi-hole/PADD/blob/master/padd.sh - the value of $cpu is likely not set correctly. Check for the directories, files and logic that is being used to set it - lines 164 to 172. You could add a 'set -xv' before line 164 to see the output of these commands as the script runs.

Pi-Hole has the PADD project that displays app + system info on the console.

There is a note here about it being run in a loop and a bug report here about the screen only updating and not being cleared so it may be the execution method or something outside the application clearing the screen (either with a clear or scrolling the data off the screen).

PADD is probably written to fit whichever screen mode it's set to, but that definitely appears to be a 4:3 ratio one, which is a pretty normal default that can likely be changed to better fit the screen. If you change the console display mode, there's a good chance PADD will try to fit that. If it doesn't, if for example PADD switches away from a mode that fits your entire screen, that'd be a good thing to report to the author on the GitHub page for PADD.

With PADD

As the subject says , I have PHAD running fine with RPI3+B with 3.5 LCD set up to autostart on each boot to display stats in revolving text windows.

PHAD is an alternate display for this size pi-hole display that offers minimal touch support. With PHAD you can tap on the screen to cycle between displays of different bits of information.

And FYI, I use PHAD with mine instead of PADD. It provides a bit more functionality in that it lets you cycle between different pages of information by tapping on the screen. The only real downside is that it currently only supports 3.5" displays (but it's all just templated so I suppose you could customize it fairly easily if you wanted/needed to).