Pantilthat Set-up Grief

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Hi, Just purchased a PanTiltHat from you and trying to set it up with a new RasPi 3 B+ following the how-to instructions on your website.

Started with the recommended curl … | bash command which then ran so far but terminated with error messages about apt indexes.

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Then tried to install the Pimoroni Dashboard. This seemed to go well and appeared in the Accessories list. Clicking on it just gives a brief screen flash of a possible dialogue then nothing (just desktop).

As this is a new RasPi it was set up with the supplied NOOBS card which installed the latest Raspbian Buster OS.

Any ideas

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This is an issue because buster moved to stable after this release on the SD card. If you run sudo apt update and answer yes to the prompts then re-run the curl command once the update finishes everything should be OK.

Gordon

3

Try this, run sudo apt get update that should get you a yes no prompt. answer y and it should now update. From then on you can go back to running sudo apt-get update, upgrade
Then run the one line installer again.

EDIT Gordon beat me too it.

4

Thanks folks! Will give that a try very soon. 🤓

5

There is a new buster image up as of 07-10. Using that image likely fixes the testing to stable error message.

6

Thanks again. The advice given earlier worked fine and the Pantilthat is now up and running!

Now for some Python…