My purchase “Order #PI241831 Thu, Jan 18 2018”. Nearly two years after delivery I finally tried to install my inkyphat. My main interest is to use weather-phat localized for “Helsinki” and “FI”. No success so far. I used the “curl https://get.pimoroni.com/inky | bash” on a RPi3A+ running latest buster. The InkypHat front and backside pictures
Which version is it ?
During installation process there where many errors always falling back to “pypi”. Is inkyphat compatible with “buster” or dedicated to ONLY RPiZeroW. I am just trying to narrow down what went wrong trying to get the device alive…
TIA
calleblyh / Helsinki
Buster Lite, or Buster with Desktop? The Lite version is missing some stuff that is stock with the full desktop version.
Using Buster w/Desktop full version.
Ok, not running the Lite version. Its compatible with any Pi with a 40 pin header, as far as I know. Is Buster the issue, maybe hard to say. Changes made to a new OS versus the one before it will sometimes catch you out.
Try running
sudo pip3 install inky For a python 3 install.
So today I have made a fresh Buster OS using full version. Inkyphat now on RPiZW… Trying to follow pimoroni/inky, I managed to run border.py under tests, so I am sure my inkyphat is alive.
However my main interest is weather-phat.py but any attempt fail.
I am very confused how to correctly run weather-phat.py. Namely I need exact terminal syntax how to define --colour xxx. Also quite confusing reading from Usage onwards
Typing in terminal “python weather-phat.py red” and I get error messages:
Please tell me how to proceed. Once I get the understanding to run the weather-phat I need to localize to Helsinki FI, but that’s another story
TIA
calleblyh
OK, finally got it…Syntax:
python weather.phat.py --colour red.
Localisation to Helsinki FI works.
Good stuff, sometimes persistence does pay off. =)
