1.12" Mono OLED (128x128, white/black) Breakout [image] 1.12" Mono OLED (128x128, white/black) Breakout A crisp, bright 1.12" OLED that's ideal for adding a small display to your project. This 128x128 pixel, monochrome white/black display is ideal for graphing, readouts, and displaying b…

The instructions on the shop page should hopefully be a bit more helpful now :) [image] 1.12" Mono OLED (128x128, white/black) Breakout A crisp, bright 1.12" OLED that's ideal for adding a small display to your project. This 128x128 pixel, monochrome white/black display is ideal for gra…

You either have to update the venv (which basically changes your PATH-variables), or start the python-interpreter directly from the venv. You did the latter: ~/luma-env/bin/python -m pip install --upgrade luma.oled This is kind of a on-the-fly venv: it is only active during the execution of the py…

I’m just trying to follow the instructions as they are detailed. Like the average joe would. ;) kyrie@pi400:~ $ source ~/luma-env/bin/activate (luma-env) kyrie@pi400:~ $ sudo pip3 install git+git://github.com/rm-hull/luma.oled.git#egg=luma.oled [sudo] password for kyrie: error: externally-managed-…

Remove the sudo. Running as root installs into the global python environment, not in the venv you just created for your kyrie user.

Will do. =) I’ll give it another go latter on tonight.

kyrie@pi400:~ $ python3 -m venv ~/luma-env kyrie@pi400:~ $ source ~/luma-env/bin/activate (luma-env) kyrie@pi400:~ $ pip3 install git+git://github.com/rm-hull/luma.oled.git#egg=luma.oled Looking in indexes: https://pypi.org/simple, https://www.piwheels.org/simple Collecting luma.oled Cloning git:/…

[image] alphanumeric: pip3 install git+git://github.com/rm-hull/luma.oled.git#egg=luma.oled Yes, these instructions are just wrong. Replace this with pip3 install git+https://github.com/rm-hull/luma.oled.git#egg=luma.oled Using git://... instead of https://... only works if you use your own…

OK, I’ll try that. I’ve swapped my original SD Card back in with my clean stock install. But I haven’t nuked the other SD card with the Luma stuff on it just yet. It would be nice to know if the OLED Breakout works.

It’s just getting ridiculous now, instruction wise, as in the lack of. kyrie@pi400:~ $ python3 -m venv ~/luma-env kyrie@pi400:~ $ source ~/luma-env/bin/activate (luma-env) kyrie@pi400:~ $ pip3 install git+https://github.com/rm-hull/luma.oled.git#egg=luma.oled Looking in indexes: https://pypi.org/si…

Yep, two errors: you cloned the examples repo with sudo. This is not necessary, but should hopefully do no harm. Second problem: this is old code, that still uses the RPi.GPIO module which is no longer available on modern systems. There is a compatibility shim though. I did not test it: sudo apt-g…

Sigh, at this point all I want to do is prove it actually works as advertised. Nothing in the Learn section OLED related, and the product page instructions are outdated. It would be nice if somebody from Pimoroni would chime in?

OLED (128x128, Breakout > SPI Python Luma Install issue

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alphanumeric July 21, 2026, 10:23pm 13

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Been there done that.

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