Error IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory with Button shim

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Hey,
when I run the keyboard.py example the following error happens:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “keyboard.py”, line 32, in
@buttonshim.on_press([buttonshim.BUTTON_A, buttonshim.BUTTON_B, buttonshim.BUTTON_C, buttonshim.BUTTON_D, buttonshim.BUTTON_E])
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/buttonshim/ init .py”, line 294, in on_press
setup()
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/buttonshim/ init .py”, line 186, in setup
_bus = smbus.SMBus(1)
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

Does anybody have an idea what the failure is?

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That’s usually a connection problem between the SHIM and your Pi. Could you post a photo of the soldering, please, and how you’ve connected it so that we can check it?

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thx for the immediate response. Here is the photo. The male header on the raspberry pi ist solder less.

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and thats how I connected the button shim with the raspberry.

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Hey everyone. I have finally found the solution of my problem. It was not a connection problem as supposed, however, the I2C option had to be activated in the raspi-config menu under the point “interfacing options”.