Scroll Phat HD seems to functionally challenging

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Hello everyone…

I took the plunge and nabbed myself a scroll bot kit during the raspberry pi birthday bash - and earlier this week I finally mustered enough courage to solder the headers onto the scroll phat HD module. I figured I could test using a Raspberry Pi model B I had available - at least I could confirm if my awful soldering would be ship shape…

I managed to solder the headers on using the tutorial on the page - and I installed the various gubbins required - like 12c by running the installation script.

curl -sS https://get.pimoroni.com/scrollphat | bash

Anyway - when I try and run the sample test-all.py I get this :

pi@raspberrypi:~/Pimoroni/scrollphat/examples $ python3 ./test-all.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./test-all.py", line 7, in <module>
    import scrollphat
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/scrollphat/__init__.py", line 20, in <module>
    controller = IS31FL3730(smbus, font)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/scrollphat/IS31FL3730.py", line 21, in __init__
    self.set_mode(self.i2cConstants.MODE_5X11)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/scrollphat/IS31FL3730.py", line 62, in set_mode
    self.bus.write_i2c_block_data(self.i2cConstants.I2C_ADDR, self.i2cConstants.CMD_SET_MODE, [self.i2cConstants.MODE_5X11])
OSError: [Errno 5] Input/output error

I thought…“Must be my extremely shoddy soldering” - so i bought a multimeter from maplins and checked the soldering and it all seems ok.

I also read some other posts on the forum, where the Bosun had suggested running a i2cdetect -y -1, which I have done and I get this :

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ i2cdetect -y 1
     0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  a  b  c  d  e  f
00:          -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
10: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
20: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
30: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
40: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
50: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
60: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
70: -- -- -- -- 74 -- -- --

which I thought might be ok, as the printing on the bottom of the PHAT says that its I2C address is 0x74. So I’m a little lost as to what to do next.

I will add that this is pixel - but possibly not the latest version.

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ uname -a
Linux raspberrypi 4.4.34-v7+ #930 SMP Wed Nov 23 15:20:41 GMT 2016 armv7l GNU/Linux

So I will try updating and upgrading. Anyone got any ideas as to why it seems functionally challenged?

Cheers

Mike

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you are not using the correct installer and library - as noted on the product page, the correct repository is:

… so you need to use:

curl -sS https://get.pimoroni.com/scrollphathd | bash

(note the ‘hd’ at the end)

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oh my word - I didn’t even notice that - great spot - sorry… I’ll fix that shortly (pi is still doing an update)

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yup - that totally works. sorry… so Today i learned to really check what you’re typing in.

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Haha, we make Unicorn HAT and Unicorn pHAT use the same library and that creates one set of problems.

We make Scroll pHAT HD and Scroll pHAT separate… and get a whole 'nother class ;)

Glad you’re up and running, anyway, it’s a very, very, very easy mistake to make.