I have not had the Blinkt very long and not used it much. Now I have the scrollphathd and the blinkt on a mini black hat hack3r,which is connected to a pi Zero and the blinkt doesn’t work, but the scrollphathad does.
I have tried the blinkt connected direct onto the gpio pins of the pi zero, but it still doesn’t work.
The blinkt is installed with the curved ends facing away from me, towards the ribbon cable and the letters BLINKT are facing me as in the right way up.
Won’t 2 phats work or run on the same ribbon cable to an expansion board.
2 pHats/Hats will work as long as there aren’t any conflicts with the GPIO pins they use.
You can check the pin outs here for conflicts. https://pinout.xyz/boards#
If you have the end of the mini hack3r with the ribbon cable attached farthest away from you, and can read the letters on the Blinkt it should be the right way up.
Or to put it another way:
When I look at the min black hack3er board, the words are facing me the right way up, and the Blinkt board’s word or letters BLINKT are also facing me and the right way up. The curved corners of the blinkt board are facing the same way as the curved corners of the mini black hack3r.
It’s possible that your Blinkt! is DOA. Unusual, though, since they’re not very complex products. Drop an email to support@pimoroni.com referencing this thread, and they should be able to get you a replacement.
Just an example. I save my python files in Home/Pi. To run one from the terminal window I have to type in sudo python3 /home/pi/myfile.py
If I just type in myfile.py nothing will happen. Well actually I’ll likely get some kind of error message.
Sorry if I’m just confusing things, it sounds like you did have the file running. If you run it from an editor like idle3, you’ll get error messages (or should) when things go wrong. It’s how I test all my files.
Just to let you know that I have not had any response from the support team on this matter after I sent an email with the relevant details etc.
I have just sent another email on the same subject, so we’ll see if I get any response.