Installed Piano Hat on RPi3 per website https://learn.pimoroni.com/tutorial/piano-hat/getting-started-with-piano-hat and rebooted. Basic example program (listed below) throws errors: Traceback (most recent call last): File “/home/pi/Documents/piano_test.py”, line 1, in import pianohat File “/u…

Looks like a problem talking to the HAT from the Pi. Is the Piano HAT located properly on the Pi’s GPIO pins? Are you using any sort of ribbon cable extension setup? What do you see if you run: i2cdetect -y 1 in terminal?

PianoHat seated properly. i2cdetect gives 28 and 2b. Would love to get this working!! will be at PiCademy Austin next two days and would like to share success with other attendees!

Well that’s all sane, very odd that i2cdetect would show a result but it would fail at the first attempt to talk to the devices! Try: i2cget -y 1 0x28 0xfd and i2cget -y 1 0x2b 0xfd This is basically asking to grab the Product ID (register 0xfd) from each devices (the first hex number being the…

So for some reason, the example code is working now. Am happy but puzzled wonder if the hat or Pi connector is flaky (gave it a snug before running code)…These Pis are used in classes with 6th graders and take some abuse…will let you know if problem recurs. Thanks a ton for the very prompt he…

I had exactly the same error as you with a different product not 5 minutes after I replied. Turned out I’d been handling it too gingerly and hadn’t pushed the pHAT all the way onto my Pi :D D’oh. Glad it’s up and running!

Hi, I cannot get the basic piano hat download to work. I copied the the line: curl https://get.pimoroni.com/pianohat | bash From the website to avoid typos, ifails saying it cannot connect to the internet. If I put: https://get.pimoroni.com/pianohat Into the web browser on the same Pi it down…

New install Piano Hat not working

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See my answer over on: Piano Hat script not downloading using curl

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