Yes thank you @sharpred. Clip and pasted it to a text file for future use. I just got my 0.96 SPI LCD yesterday. I have it plugged into my Mini Breakout garden. That’s about as far as I got though. Going to play around with it today sometime.
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Enviro+ screen - turning it off
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Picade + RPi4 = WiFi not working :(
Today, after weeks of working from home, I seem to be havving massive WiFi issues with my laptop. It’s been perfect literally up until this morning.
So I ran a WiFi scanning app and it turns out one o fthe neighbours has cloned our WiFi. So my laptop was connecting to the dodgy WiFi instead. Now this isn’t the exact same issue, but it all seems connected. I’ll investigate further. Maybe the RasPi 3 somehow has a preference for my WiFi and the Pi4 for thiers? both are jsut configured using SSIDs so it’s not like I’m entering the details any differntly.
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Plasma Button Upgrade + 10 Inch RPI3 compatibility?
Hello RPI Fans!
I ordered my 10 Inch picade today + 10 button plasma Button Upgrade.
This combination should work fine because of X-Hat USB-C (with plasma button connector).
Can this button upgrade be used for the 8inch Version too ?
Another question please: 10inch Picade should work (because GPIO Pins are 1:1) with RPI3b or 3b+ too ? X-HAT must be powered with USB-C, internally everything should work as expected, slower but compatible ?
br Harald
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Plasma Button Upgrade + 10 Inch RPI3 compatibility?
There are a few posts here where people have used the 3B+ with the Picade X Hat. GPIO pinout is the same as with the Pi 4B. They went that route because Retro Pi wouldn’t run on a Buster / Pi 4. I’m pretty sure that’s solved by now though.
I don’t own a Picade, but as far as I know the 8 and 10 use the same buttons so a Plasma upgrade “should” be doable.
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Plasma Button Upgrade + 10 Inch RPI3 compatibility?
Thanks for your reply! There are many ready2use images (except installed pimoroni addon software), its good to be able to choose between them (different versions for RPI3 and RPI4).
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Picade 10inch build experience
The text from the 2nd page of those instructions seems to be the same as what came in the box. It happens to mention on the first page
You’ll be using these M3 nuts and bolts (although just two of them) to hold the new 10” assembly together
But I don’t see any mention in the instructions to actually use them? I got to the stage were i’d screwed the console in and then realise there were some holes and had to unscrew the console to add the appropriate screws.
I’m pretty familiar with using the ribbon cable connectors as well having built a number of projects with similar screens/drivers but even when I still had the black latch intact the ribbon cable wasn’t making good enough contact due to the tight bend the ribbon needs to make. I may actually drill some new holes a little further down (1cm would probably be enough) in the perspex to reduce the cable bend stress
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No HDMI output with RPi 4 using HDMI panel mount cable
Hi all! I bought the HDMI panel mount cable from Pimoroni, but unfortunately HDMI does not output through it with my Raspberry Pi 4.
The extension cable works fine connected to my laptop, and to a Raspberry Pi Zero W.
The Raspberry Pi works fine connected directly to the monitor using a HDMI-micro HDMI adapter.
I’ve also tried the extender on another Raspberry Pi 4 (running LibreELEC), with the same results.
My config.txt has had these lined edited:
hdmi_ignore_edid=0xa5000080
hdmi_group=2
hdmi_mode=81
config_hdmi_boost=11
I later found out that config_hdmi_boost isn’t supported on the Raspberry Pi 4 anyway!
I’ve also tried just setting hdmi_safe=1.
And to confirm, I’m using the HDMI0 port.
Does this HDMI extender simply not support the Raspberry Pi 4?
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Picade 10inch build experience
There have been a few complaints about sketchy build instructions. I don’t own a Picade, not yet anyway. Its on my wish list though.
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Need Help! Pimoroni Hyperpixel/Pihole Console blanking when I goto bed
I have a RPI4 that has a Pimoroni Hyperpixel 4, and its running PIHOLE in which the display is a FULLSCREEN TERMINAL window that runs stats…
Im not knowledgeable in this subject so I found the below info and did it to no avail… It I guess only works on a regular PITFT…
Below is the CODE to BLANK the screen ‘after hours’ but again it is for the original PI TFT…
Does anyone know how I can change a setting and redo this to work w/ a hyperpixel screen ? Links and code below… thanks !
SCROLL DOWN to TURN OFF THE PITFT at NIGHT
Turn off the PiTFT at Night
The PiTFT is bright and doesn’t need to be powered-on at night, so let’s put it to sleep until we wake up.
Edit cron as root:
- sudo crontab -e
Select nano as an editor by pressing the 2 key.
Scroll beneath the commented text (#) and enter the following:
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PADD Sleep
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Turn off the PiTFT+ at midnight
- 00 00 * * * sh -c ‘echo “0” > /sys/class/backlight/soc:backlight/brightness’
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Turn on the PiTFT+ at 8:00 am
- 00 08 * * * sh -c ‘echo “1” > /sys/class/backlight/soc:backlight/brightness’
Save ( control+O ) the configuration and exit ( control+X ) nano to be brought back to the terminal.
Reboot the Pi to apply the new changes by running:
- sudo reboot
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Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.4 8GB fanshim never stops
I was the hardware. The solderless fanshim didn’t contact the pins.
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Need Help! Pimoroni Hyperpixel/Pihole Console blanking when I goto bed
You can control the backlight brightness using Pin19, it’s a PWM pin and the lower the signal the darker it will get. You can do that through Python or there are example Bash commands here.
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HAT removal
I bend them sometimes. And then bend them back carefully.
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Hyperpixel 4.0 ceased to work
I have a Hyperpixel 4.0 Rectangular Touch display mounted to a Raspi 3B+.
After installing the driver curl -sSL https://get.pimoroni.com/hyperpixel4 | bash to that (latest-greatest) Raspbian Buster it worked fine for some days, but suddenly it ceased to work without me changing anything.
Reinstalling that driver again didn’t help. I checked and I can still control the backlight either on or off and also via GPIO19 PWM I can dim it - which makes considerable amount of noise but works.
I also tried to install it to a new Raspi and new also new Buster installation, but same issue…
Any hints what to try next?
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Speaker phat no sound, but vumeter working
Hi, I found teh issue. It was my Zero PI Headers soldering, I did not do it right.
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Speaker phat no sound, but vumeter working
Soldering is an acquired skill, it takes some practice to get good at it.
Nice that you found the issue. Now you can enjoy your new bit of tech.
I should have posted this earlier, it shows what pins are used.
You can check the pinouts for many Hats and pHats there.
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Button problem / New Picade X Hat broken?
Hi all,
Two days ago i bought a Picade 10 inch screen model and it was a lot of fun to build! When all was done and i started to map the buttons (RetroPie 4.6) i noticed that button 3, 4, 1UP and Coin did not work. I then rewired all the buttons that did not work to button 1 on the Picade X Hat and they did respond after that, so the buttons and wires are not the problem. I managed to get 1UP and Coin to work when i did not push the connector on the Picad X Hat down all the way for these buttons. Thats weird, isn’t it?
My conclusion is that i got a Picade X Hat with some busted button connectors in my package. Or do anyone have any suggestions to what might be wrong?
If the Picade Hat is broken, what can i do about it? I did not bought this from Pimoroni’s website. The strore that i bought it from do not have new Picade X Hat’s to by separately.
Must i buy a new one?
Any help is appreciated! :)
Thanks!
Magnus Ardhammar / Sweden
(Here is a picture on how the connectors for 1UP and Coin must be to work)
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Button problem / New Picade X Hat broken?
From the photo it looks like the XHAT isn’t pushed down far enough onto the PI. That could explain the weird behaviour.
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Button problem / New Picade X Hat broken?
@mironc Those Surface Mount headers are only about half as deep as the through hole solder on ones. It’s normal to see part of the male pins exposed like that. Can’t hurt to make sure its firmly on though.
What’s going on with the button header I don’t know though?
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Button problem / New Picade X Hat broken?
Update!
I gave the XHAT an extra push and it came down a little bit more and sure enough - it fixed the problem! Sorry for being a noob, it was scary to put so much force to the pi and XHAT. One more lesson learned.
Thanks all!
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Hotkeys / Button mapping issues
Wow, three days and still no answer. Will try next week, if my assumption was right…
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