# pHAT BEAT RGB on 100% randomly on powerup

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**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [July 9, 2019, 9:23pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/phat-beat-rgb-on-100-randomly-on-powerup/10924 "2019-07-09T21:23:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![HeadLess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f0a364/32.png) [@HeadLess](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/HeadLess)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2019, 8:14pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/phat-beat-rgb-on-100-randomly-on-powerup/10924/10 "2019-08-18T20:14:20Z")

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Final update:  
Got replacement (took me some time to send it out),  
After soldering the headers - only partial success:

- on boot occasionally some random LED (or three) will start on)
- pivumeter works great, test.sh, et all,
- python libraries - not so:  
After running hue-control.py or rainbow.py LEDs are going bezerk.  
Even after BTN\_ONOFF in hue-control while most of LEDs went dark, there were some still randomly blinking.  
Even after calling only phatbeat.set\_all(0,0,0,0,0) and show().  
No madness after only calling .clear() in script.  
But - this time turning off pivumeter ( cleaning up asound.conf as mentioned in msg 4 above )  
and rebooting - all python example scripts work OK.  
So - it’s the C vs python libraries apparently again.  
Some logic leaks out :P  
I’m leaving it that way:  
Either PIVuMeter, or python stuff, not both at once.  
I can live with that.

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