Pirate-Audio blank screen

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Hi, all, I just bought a pirate audio and I am trying to set it up by following this guide: Getting Started with Pirate Audio

I got to the point where I have to reboot the pi. It says there should be a url that pops upon the display, but I don’t see anything. It’s just a blank screen. Did I skip a step? I am using a Raspberry pi zero.

I also followed this guide: pirate-audio/mopidy at master · pimoroni/pirate-audio · GitHub
tried all those commands, but nothing gets my screen to turn on. I made sure SPI is enabled in the interface configs. Please help!

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Make sure SPI is enabled in raspi-config.

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Thanks for the help. It is already enabled. That’s what I meant when I said SPI is enabled in the interface configs. Sorry for the confusion

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Ops, I somehow missed that you made sure it was enabled. Guilty of not reading your whole post before making mine.

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I have the same problem; I guess there’s no solution since you’ve been waiting 7 months for some help. Did you get anywhere. I’ve given up. Almost.

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Still no solution? Like (apparently) a few others, still having the same issue. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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The display is a 240x240 ST7789. Before you start with the convoluted and complex all in one application level mopidy example, try a simpler example that only uses the screen.

So it is time to install the ST7789 driver (GitHub - pimoroni/st7789-python: Python library to control an ST7789 240x240 1.3" TFT LCD display.) and try to run one of the examples that the driver provides in the examples subdirectory. This should give you some more insights. Be aware that you have to read the code and adapt the examples for the Pirate Audio, but that should be straightforward because the examples have notes about what to do.