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prueker / METARMap

Raspberry Pi project to visualize flight conditions on a map using WS8211 LEDs addressed via NeoPixel
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Coversion to Libre PC - AML-S905X-CC #42

Closed SysInt17 closed 1 year ago

SysInt17 commented 1 year ago

I have this project running currently on a Raspberry Pi 3B and everything works as expected.

Given the price and availability of Pi's these days, I found what appeared to be a near suitable replacement (Libre PC - M# AML-S905X-CC) I picked up a couple of these from Amazon for $35/each. Anyways, I was able to load Bullseye Lite and get follow most of the steps to recreate this project. However, I can't figure out the GPIO Interface for the PWM Output and the "Overlays" I guess for the I2C for the small display.

Has anyone tried to get this project working on a Libre PC Le Potato? This is my 2nd project building the Metar Map and wanted to gift it to my Flight Instructor since I recently became a Private Pilot.

This is what I get when I try to run the project running on the AML-S905X-CC:

metar@raspberrypi:~ $ python3 metar.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/metar/metar.py", line 6, in import neopixel File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/neopixel.py", line 18, in from neopixel_write import neopixel_write File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/neopixel_write.py", line 36, in raise NotImplementedError("Board not supported") NotImplementedError: Board not supported metar@raspberrypi:~ $

SysInt17 commented 1 year ago

Messing around with this for a few days and still haven't got it to work. I did happen to find that my local MicroCenter had some of the Pi Zero W units in stock. So I was able to pick one up, did a clean install and copied over my already working python3 project and bam, off to the races and working. So yeah, for this project of 25 LED's, no big deal.

cbronner35 commented 1 year ago

Yeah that's your best bet. I tried to adapt the code to work with that potato too but was unsuccessful. It's all due to the incompatibility in the neopixel library. It's built specifically for the pi hardware, not the potato, so you'd have to remake the library specifically to match the potato to make it work. Which my guess isn't an easy task but I'm glad you found a pi! Check out https://rpilocator.com/ if you ever have trouble finding another in the future.