Changing BCM24 pin used in phat beat to another unused pin

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Hi, I currently have a problem caused by a potential conflict between the BCM pin 24 used in my phat beat board and an OLED library that uses SPI pins including BCM24.

This is because when I ran the demo script of the OLED library, I get:

pi@raspberrypi:~/luma.examples $ python examples/demo.py --display ssd1351 --width 128 --height 128 --interface spi --spi-bus-speed 8000000
Version: luma.oled 2.3.1 (luma.core 1.3.0)
Display: ssd1351
Interface: spi
Dimensions: 128 x 128
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/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/luma/core/interface/serial.py:164: RuntimeWarning: This channel is already in use, continuing anyway.  Use GPIO.setwarnings(False) to disable warnings.
  self._gpio.setup(pin, self._gpio.OUT)

Upon checking https://pinout.xyz/pinout/phat_beat#, I think that BCM24 is the pin that is causing the conflict potentially.

Could anyone advise me on how I can modify the installed library of phat beat such that BCM 24 pin gets rerouted to another pin e.g. BCM 0?

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That function is hard wired to that PIN on the pHat Beat. How are you going to physically reroute it?

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I was thinking that if there was a way for me to modify the installed library to disable that pin, then maybe I can use that pin for my OLED display. However, I am not too sure what loss of functions the phat beat might incur as a result. If there is still audio output, then I am ok to accept those changes that comes with disabling BCM24 for phat beat.

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According to the pinout, that is the Clock. I think you’ll find that signal is rather important and the pHat Beat likely won’t work without it. @gadgetoid would likely know for sure, what it does and if its needed. That’s above my skill level. ;)