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 be appreciated though…
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
I’ve just been trying an inky pHAT red on a fresh install of raspbian. Installed the old library, which worked. Installed the new one, which came up with some install errors, but things seem to be going fine apart from two things.
1 - Had to install smbus2 manually (pip3 install smbus2)
2 - Have to run with python3, the examples don’t work with 2.7.
The following should work fine:
python3 name-badge.py --type phat --colour red --name “Inigo Montoya”
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Quick update on this.
Created a fresh new OS and gave Inky another go.
100% success this time :-).
The initial build though takes aeons, and seems to be trying to install a lot of things it either cannot install, or doesn’t need.
If that part of the process could be accelerated, we’d be super happy!
Thank you.
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pi@raspberrypi:~ $ curl https://get.pimoroni.com/inky | bash
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This script will install everything needed to use
Inky pHAT & wHAT
Always be careful when running scripts and commands copied
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If you want to see what this script does before running it,
you should run: 'curl https://get.pimoroni.com/inky'
Note: Inky pHAT & wHAT requires SPI communication
Do you wish to continue? [y/N] y
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Inky pHAT & wHAT comes with examples and documentation that you may wish to install.
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pi@raspberrypi:~ $
#####################################################################################
###### Calendar example - worked OK###########
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cd /home/pi/Pimoroni/inky/examples
pi@raspberrypi:~/Pimoroni/inky/examples $ cd phat
pi@raspberrypi:~/Pimoroni/inky/examples/phat $ python3 calendar-phat.py --colour "yellow"
Inky pHAT: Calendar
Draws a calendar for the current month to your Inky pHAT.
This example uses a sprite sheet of numbers and month names which are
composited over the background in a couple of different ways.
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pi@raspberrypi:~/Pimoroni/inky/examples/phat $
#####################################################################################
###### Weather example - worked OK###########
pi@raspberrypi:~/Pimoroni/inky/examples/phat $ python3 weather-phat.py --colour "yellow"
Inky pHAT: Weather
Displays weather information for a given location. The default location is Sheffield-on-Sea.
Detected Yellow pHAT (SSD1608)
pi@raspberrypi:~/Pimoroni/inky/examples/phat $
#####################################################################################
###### Weather example - worked OK###########
pi@raspberrypi:~/Pimoroni/inky/examples $ python3 name-badge.py --type "auto" --colour "red" --name "Inigo Montoya"
pHAT/wHAT: Hello... my name is:
Use Inky pHAT/wHAT as a personalised name badge!
Detected Yellow pHAT (SSD1608)Hi.
Just re-awakening this old thread.
Bought a black inkyphat 2.13.
Pi zero W Fresh install of raspian. Updated.
Install inkyphat as per instructions.
Prolonged build with errors.
No recognition of inky phat.
Tried everything. No success.
The tutorial is way out of date as previously noted.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
John
Hi
Update.
I fixed this.
A fresh… fresh! Install. Sudo update then fastidious input of the command including type and colour.
Cheers
John
This could have been better coordinated before releasing: I purchased thru Adafruit in US in Jan, and the link to the beginners tutorial is already outdated with github that one has to fin from R+ D after the pHAT wouldn’t update with simple instructions, but some canned sketches would work. It appears the initial build thru curl grabbs the older version when the simpler approach is a sudo pip install --upgrade inky to sort it out, then a totally different approach to the simple show text with this reformatted code that’s the result of 3 hrs/3 days to piece it all together. In short, suggest a more updated tutorial. This is how to put text on it, and the only apparent way that seems to show it, as the tutorial didn’t
from inky.auto import auto
from PIL import Image, ImageFont, ImageDraw
from font_fredoka_one import FredokaOne
font = ImageFont.truetype(FredokaOne, 22)
board = auto()
print(board.colour)
print(board.resolution)
inky_display = auto(ask_user=True, verbose=True)
img = Image.new(“P”, (inky_display.WIDTH, inky_display.HEIGHT))
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(img)
message = “This is Super Crazy”
w, h = font.getsize(message)
x = (inky_display.WIDTH / 2) - (w / 2)
y = (inky_display.HEIGHT / 2) - (h / 2)
inky_display.set_border(inky_display.BLACK)
draw.text((x, y), message, inky_display.YELLOW, font)
inky_display.set_image(img)
inky_display.show()
Is it normal for eInk (Inky pHAT) to take 15 seconds to refresh and blink for that long? It’s really distracting for a 1 minute frequency update, and wondered if there is a code that can limit the extent of refreshing on the display to avoid the magnitude of flashing?
Thank you very much for this. It’s June 2021 now and this fixed my issues. I struggled to get the simple helloWorld tutorial to display anything. All the example scripts worked fine but nothing I wrote myself till I switched to the auto inclusion. +1 to the notion of an updated tutorial!
-julian
Sorry about that, looks like I’d updated the examples part of the tutorial to accommodate for the inky.auto library changes but not the bits about how to write your own code. Should all be correct now - thanks for the heads up!
Superb. Thanks @hel for following up. I appreciate it.
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Thanks for that. Disappointing though that it took a long discussion and eleven months for the otherwise amazing Pimoroni folks to react.