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Top buttons don't light up! #9

Open ipadeflteacher opened 3 years ago

ipadeflteacher commented 3 years ago

I have the ten button kit. I can't seem to get the top buttons to light up. I've doubled checked the wiring and the code. I got help on the Pimoroni Forums but I still can't get the top buttons to light up. I can change the colors of the start/select and side buttons with the software but that's it. Thanks!

Gadgetoid commented 3 years ago

Sorry for the lack of response- Did you ever figure this out?

ipadeflteacher commented 3 years ago

Nothing seemed to work. But I haven’t given up. I kind of got side tracked with other projects but I will get back to it soon.

Thanks for keeping in touch

Richard

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Gadgetoid commented 3 years ago

If you get a moment at some point, try swapping the first top LED PCB with one that's working on the side, just to see if it's a dead PCB that's breaking the chain.

I've recently totally overhauled the Plasma codebase (or rather, finally merged my overhaul) so that also might help if it's some code weirdness.

ipadeflteacher commented 3 years ago

I will try that thanks! Where can I download the new code?

Richard

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Gadgetoid commented 3 years ago

I've just updated it in this repository:

git clone https://github.com/pimoroni/plasma
cd plasma/daemon
sudo ./install.sh

Config is now in /etc/plasma/plasma.conf and your data/clock pins (14, 15) might need swapped to work at all.

PinkFreud commented 2 years ago

If it helps, I've come across a couple of faulty Plasma boards (I bought 3 kits here for a build I was working on this year!), where at least one had a faulty Out port - In would work, but nothing behind it would light up.

In other words, definitely test different positions for the PCBs - as Gadgetoid said, this could be a hw fault.

(Gadgetoid: Don't worry about this issue. Your awesome coworkers at Pimoroni have already sent me replacements for the faulty boards I wound up with!).