MLBStats and RGB-Matrix not installing correctly.

[mcangeli]

This issue is a

• [x ] Bug Report
• [ ] Feature Request

Hardware Configuration

Raspi 4B 2gb Adafruit RGB Matrix Bonnet 64x32 RGB LED Matrix (The suggested BOL)

Software Configuration

Raspberrypi Bookworm fresh install MLB Scoreboard fresh install

• MLB LED Scoreboard Version:
• Commands/arguments used to start the scoreboard:

On a fresh install it appears that the MLB StatsAPI and the RGB Matrix are not installed correctly. I was able to get the stats installed, however I had to install the RGB Matrix with the install script from adafruit (which works really well).

However, now I have to use: sudo python main.py --led-rows=32 --led-cols=64 --led-gpio-mapping=adafruit-hat

to start the board.

[lambtor]

did you install the rgb matrix from within the mlb-led-scoreboard directory? i'm having the same problem. statsAPI did not install on 32 bit, but seems to have installed ok on 64 bit.

[mcangeli]

did you install the rgb matrix from within the mlb-led-scoreboard directory? i'm having the same problem. statsAPI did not install on 32 bit, but seems to have installed ok on 64 bit.

I ended up running " pip3 install pipreqs --break-system-packages"

in the MLB-Scoreboard directory and it installed the statsapi.

I did have to install the rgbmatrix from a different directory (as the install for the mlb-scoreboard already tried to install it). I ran the install script that adafruit has and it installed ok.

[lambtor]

do you have the command you used to install the rgb matrix adafruit script? i assume i'm looking for it to target the mlb-led-scoreboard/matrix directory?

[mcangeli]

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/adafruit/Raspberry-Pi-Installer-Scripts/main/rgb-matrix.sh >rgb-matrix.sh sudo bash rgb-matrix.sh

https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-rgb-matrix-bonnet-for-raspberry-pi/driving-matrices

[craigw97]

I'm having issues following the steps above, but it seems to mostly be due to permissions issues on the rpi4. After I do a clean download of the Mlb-led-scoreboard when I try to do 'pip3 install pipreqs --break-system-packages' I get an ESError: [Errno 13] error stating that the permission was denied. Is the rpi4 misconfigured or should I be doing all of this in a virtual environment? Thanks for the help.

[pjockey]

Did you try it sudo in front of the command?

[craigw97]

Putting Sudo in front of the command got it to work, however, I'm still having issues getting the script to work. I downloaded the rbg-matrix via the code script Mcangeli shared. I verified it worked by navigating to mlb-led-scoreboard/submodules/matrix/examples-api-use and running the demo code. With this, the LED screen works perfectly on the examples. When I navigate back to the mlb-led-scoreboard folder and run: sudo ./main.py --led-rows=32 --led-cols=64 --led-no-hardware-pulse=1 --led-gpio-mapping=adafruit-hat --led-slowdown-gpio=4 I'm getting the errors stating that the SixelAdapter failed to load, and it later states that ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'rgbmatrix' Do I need to be running this in a virtual environment or am I missing something to get this to work?

[pjockey]

If everything was installed correctly, the command should take you into the venv folder and run everything from inside there.

This how my file system looks on the Pi.

I don't see anything in the instructions about pipreqs. There is no file on my Pi. The sudo ./install.sh should locate and install all of the required files/packages from the requirements.txt file.

Contents of requirements.txt

feedparser==6.0.10
MLB_StatsAPI>=1.6.1
Pillow>=10.0.1
pyowm==3.3.0
RGBMatrixEmulator>=0.8.4
tzlocal==4.2

Requirements
You need Git for cloning this repo and PIP for installing the scoreboard software.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git python3-pip

Installing the scoreboard software
This installation process will take about 10-15 minutes. Raspberry Pis aren't the fastest of computers, so be patient!

git clone https://github.com/MLB-LED-Scoreboard/mlb-led-scoreboard.git
cd mlb-led-scoreboard/
sudo ./install.sh

This will create a Python Virtual Environment and install all of the required dependencies. The virtual environment will be located at mlb-led-scoreboard/venv/.

[craigw97]

Thank you for sharing that. Looking at my file system, I'm seeing the below files. x@raspberrypi:~/Final2/mlb-led-scoreboard $ ls assets highlight.py requirements.txt colors install.sh rgb-matrix.sh config.json ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md submodules config.json.example LICENSE.md tests CONTRIBUTING.md main.py utils.py coordinates PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md validate_config.py data __pycache__ venv debug.py pyproject.toml version.py driver README.md emulator_config.json renderers

It looks like I'm missing some folders, like bin, lib, share, include and the pyvenv.cfg file. My file system also seems to include rgb-matrix.sh. Is it possible I installed the rgb-matrix into the wrong location? Also, my requirements.txt seem to be slightly different. Is this just a difference in version of the software? Thank you for the help, I realise this is fully operator error on my end. core==1.0.1 feedparser==6.0.10 Pillow==9.4.0 Pillow==10.4.0 pyowm==3.3.0 RGBMatrixEmulator==0.11.6 tzlocal==4.2

[longbored]

Unfortunately, I'm experiencing this same issue, and have followed all of the tips in here exhaustively. I even was able to install rgbmatrix from the local files in the submodules. If I run Python either in the venv, or out, and simply import rgbmatrix, it imports without issues.

But once I actually go to run main.py (again, either in the venv, or outside of it), it can't figure things out. Sadly, I'm very stuck.