Blinkt Python library and the RPi5 GPIO [Not Working]

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Just purchased myself the Pi 5, really nice translucent case, active cooling, everything good to go. Along with all this I bought a Blinkt! module, thinking yea that’s going to look slick, but I have now found out this will not work using the Python library from Pimoroni on the Raspberry Pi 5 and the new GPIO chip.

Are there any plans to migrate or write the library so it is easily compatible with the latest generation of Pi?

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You can light up a Blinkt with the plasma software. I’ve done it. I’ll see if I can find the code I used.
pimoroni/plasma: Plasma LED driver, FX Sequencer and plugins

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To install plasma, and start the daemon. it’s as follows. Once you do that it runs all on its own on bootup.

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

cd daemon
sudo ./install.sh

I then did the following to get it to light up the blinkt.
sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/plasma.service
and changed the -o GPIO:14:15 to -o GPIO:23:24 for blinkt.
It’s crtl x then y to save the changes.

And then this to get the number of LED’s to match whats on the blinkt.
sudo nano /usr/bin/plasma
and changed LIGHTS = 10 to LIGHTS = 2 for blinkt

The actual Plasma Buttons have 4 LED’s each. Lights=2 equates to 8 LED’s. It’s really Buttons =.

You can also look for a line with load_pattern(“default”) at the end
I changed it to load_pattern(“trippy”) and it switched.

To turn it off, and disable it.
sudo systemctl stop plasma
sudo systemctl disable plasma