Hello,
I am making inky display with Raspberry pi zero 2W. After installation of inky and setup the following error. Any help how can I resolve this? Thank you so much in advance.
python stripes.py
Failed to detect an Inky board. Trying --type/–colour arguments instead…
The board is not getting detected.
It is always worth reading the complete manual installation instructions and make sure everything is installed. The automatic installer mostly works, but it turns out that it is not always the case.
In your situation, it could of course be a hardware issue. But first, you should rule out any other issues. So basically the suggestion is to start with a clean install of PiOS.
Specifically, check if I2C is activated. And use i2cdetect -y 1 to see if your Inky is detected.
Thank you for your response! I reinstalled pi-os and setup GitHub - pimoroni/inky: Combined library for V2/V3 Inky pHAT and Inky wHAT.. Went through the installation instructions again! could this be board issue?
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~/inky/examples $ ./identify.py
No display EEPROM detected,
you might have an old Inky board that doesn’t have an EEPROM - eg: early Inky pHAT boards.
Try running examples with --colour <black/red/yellow>
Or writing your code using:
from inky.phat import InkyPHAT
display = InkyPHAT(“<black/red/yellow>”)
Could this be board issue?
Make sure you have a firm manual connection between the Pi and the Inky. I am sure you checked it already, because this is trivial.
So it seems it is time to mail to support. You can link to this thread to demonstrate the troubleshooting steps you already did.