InkyPhat issues

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Having some issues with the inkyphat with my pi zero WH.

I was initially able to set up the calendar, but it never changed dates, and is now fading quite a bit. Since then I’ve been unable to use any of the other examples (name badge, weather, etc.). Now, after trying some updates, I get the following error messages whenever I try to use one of the examples:

File “calendar-phat.py”, line 206, in
inky_display.show()
File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/inky/inky_ssd1608.py”, line 236, in show
self._update(buf_a, buf_b, busy_wait=busy_wait)
File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/inky/inky_ssd1608.py”, line 174, in _update
self.setup()
File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/inky/inky_ssd1608.py”, line 155, in setup
self._busy_wait()
File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/inky/inky_ssd1608.py”, line 163, in _busy_wait
raise RuntimeError(“Timeout waiting for busy signal to clear.”)
RuntimeError: Timeout waiting for busy signal to clear.

At this point I’m wondering whether it’s an issue with the inkyphat itself, or is it just me (most likely). Any way I could (a) fix the errors above and then (b) get it to display the name badge etc.

Thanks in advance

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I’m getting precisely the same error using the Inky Impression (7 colours). I’ve attached the display to a Pi Zero W, imaged with a fresh OS, sshed in and run the inky installation script, which ran to completion, then rebooted the pi, relogged in, and no matter script I run from ~/Pimoroni/inky/examples/7color, I get this error message. Any guidance?

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I tried the sequence proposed in the inky repo on github and got this error:

$ python3
Python 3.7.3 (default, Jul 25 2020, 13:03:44) 
[GCC 8.3.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from inky.auto import auto
>>> board = auto()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/inky/auto.py", line 44, in auto
    raise RuntimeError("No EEPROM detected! You must manually initialise your Inky board.")
RuntimeError: No EEPROM detected! You must manually initialise your Inky board.
>>>