Adafruit 128x64 OLED Bonnet - no display?

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I’m using this with a RPi Zero WH, all brand new from Pimoroni.
I downloaded the Adafruit examples and I can:

  1. Read button-presses
  2. Detect that display is present on the I2C bus, using “i2cdetect -y 1” (shows up at address 0x3c)

However the screen never displays anything, e.g. when I run “python example.py”

Based on the above I’m assuming the display is actually broken.

Any ideas? Is there something different about the RPi Zero WH which means I need to change something? All the default choices in “example.py” (e.g. the type of display, using I2C not SPI) look correct.

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Before writing it off as dead you should ask on the Adafruit forums- unfortunately I’ve not got any experience with this display or any of the common issues with it, so I don’t know what to suggest. - https://forums.adafruit.com/viewforum.php?f=50&sid=72926b94812dc1aeba2598381089e2c6

You should, hopefully, get some useful answers from them.

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did you find an issue and was it hardware, I’ve got the exact same issue with RPi Zero WH ?

4

The device was faulty. A replacement solved the issue.