Using new Inky Phat Yellow. It’s running on a 4GB Pi4 using Buster Calendar = OK Weather = OK Name badge though, does nothing. No errors, no Inky display change. Nothing. Nada. Zilch. My thought was perhaps the fonts haven’t installed, but the code isn’t failing on the code import step. Any id…

You’ll want to run it from the “Terminal” so that you can pass your name as a parameter. I don’t think you can pass parameters running the script from Idle3.

Bangs head on wall, sobs quietly into first available cushion… That’s the first thing I tried Tomm. See first post in this thread.

Apologies, joined the thread a bit late. Is there any difference if you run the script with python or python3?

No, tried that! See reply dated Aug 19th, 15:36

I’m having the same issue on my new pi. Just bought a new pi and an e-ink board. Just put it all together, but can’t get any example to run (except what the manufacturer included in their example bits)

Mine was OK with the weather and calendar examples. Name_badge only works if I adjust the code to not ask for a name, but have it hard-coded instead.

I’ve got the same issue. Calendar and Weather are OK but cannot, for love or money, get the name badge to work. Also trying to get the balena-based https://github.com/balenalabs/inkyshot project to run, and everything’s working except the display isn’t updating!

Inkyshot looks interesting, I’ll give that a go someday. Name badge does work, but not out-of-the-box/as intended, at least not for me. I changed the code to not ask for a name, but use a name I added to the code myself. Ran it through Geany, works fine. A proper fix from the Pimoroni guys would…

Ok, inspired by THIS THREAD , I get the following: python name-badge.py --type "phat" --colour "yellow" --name "Inigo Montoya" FAIL python name-badge.py --type "auto" --colour "yellow" --name "Inigo Montoya" SUCCESS Question is, why?!

Hey Richard - Tried this and to no avail. Maaan this thing is stress! - a tiny circuit board is making me want throw things out the window

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JulianB July 10, 2021, 1:35am 34

Superb. Thanks @hel for following up. I appreciate it.

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