# Pirate Radio Led's don't work? **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [April 16, 2018, 1:25am UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/pirate-radio-leds-dont-work/7545 "2018-04-16T01:25:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![stocknic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@stocknic](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/stocknic)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2018, 1:25am UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/pirate-radio-leds-dont-work/7545/1 "2018-04-16T01:25:49Z")
Hello! Just put my Pirate Radio together without a hitch…plays fine…but I have no LEDs on the Phatbeat for some reason…something I missed? Thanks, Nick (will pick up a second speaker me thinks…mono is so early 20th century…) ---
**Author:** ![gadgetoid](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forums.pimoroni.com/gadgetoid/32/13_2.png) [@gadgetoid](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/gadgetoid)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2018, 6:17am UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/pirate-radio-leds-dont-work/7545/2 "2018-04-16T06:17:13Z")
Could be! Did you follow any of our guides/run any of our install scripts? The LEDs are driven by a project called “Pi VU Meter”, which is configured in `/etc/asound.conf` Can you grab the contents of that file with: `cat /etc/asound.conf` and post them here? ---
**Author:** ![stocknic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@stocknic](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/stocknic)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2018, 2:36pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/pirate-radio-leds-dont-work/7545/3 "2018-04-16T14:36:09Z")
Hi! Yes, I followed the guide and used the curl script to install everything…I will grab the file contents and post when I get home from work…thanks for the quick reply! ---
**Author:** ![stocknic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@stocknic](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/stocknic)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2018, 3:05am UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/pirate-radio-leds-dont-work/7545/4 "2018-04-17T03:05:25Z")
pcm.!default { type plug slave.pcm “softvol\_and\_pivumeter” } ctl.!default { type hw card 0 } pcm.pivumeter { type meter slave.pcm “hw:0,0” scopes.0 pivumeter } pcm.softvol\_and\_pivumeter { type softvol slave.pcm “pivumeter” control { name “PCM” card 0 } } pcm\_scope.pivumeter { type pivumeter decay\_ms 500 peak\_ms 400 brightness 128 output\_device phat-beat } pcm\_scope\_type.pivumeter { lib /usr/local/lib/libpivumeter.so } pcm.dsp0 pivumeter ---
**Author:** ![gadgetoid](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forums.pimoroni.com/gadgetoid/32/13_2.png) [@gadgetoid](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/gadgetoid)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2018, 1:49pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/pirate-radio-leds-dont-work/7545/5 "2018-04-18T13:49:53Z")
That looks fine; what do you see if you run: ```auto sudo systemctl stop pulseaudio speaker-test -c2 -twav ``` ---
**Author:** ![stocknic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@stocknic](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/stocknic)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2018, 6:31pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/pirate-radio-leds-dont-work/7545/6 "2018-04-19T18:31:20Z")
The VU meter works on the test, illuminating each side up to the middle repetitively…no idea how to kill the process via SSH though…;-) ---
**Author:** ![gadgetoid](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forums.pimoroni.com/gadgetoid/32/13_2.png) [@gadgetoid](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/gadgetoid)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2018, 8:42am UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/pirate-radio-leds-dont-work/7545/7 "2018-04-23T08:42:10Z")
Should just kill with Ctrl+C, what application are you normally using for playing music? ---
**Author:** ![stocknic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@stocknic](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/stocknic)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2018, 9:05pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/pirate-radio-leds-dont-work/7545/8 "2018-04-29T21:05:09Z")
I just installed the software according to the instructions, so not sure what application is running the audio on the Pirate Radio…are there choices? I will try Crtl+C…I use Terminal on my mac to SSH into the Pi… ---
**Author:** ![stocknic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@stocknic](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/stocknic)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2018, 7:37pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/pirate-radio-leds-dont-work/7545/9 "2018-07-07T19:37:13Z")
Right, a long overdue update on this issue. I ended up using a fresh install of Noobs and voila, the VU meter works! Now have a stereo pirate radio and i’m loving it. However, when I try to add new urls via the terminal there’s no /home/pi/.config/vlc/playlist.m3u file that exists… ?? ---
**Author:** ![gadgetoid](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forums.pimoroni.com/gadgetoid/32/13_2.png) [@gadgetoid](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/gadgetoid)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2018, 7:10pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/pirate-radio-leds-dont-work/7545/10 "2018-07-08T19:10:30Z")
You can simply create that file- the default playlist exists elsewhere, and you can see its contents here: [https://github.com/pimoroni/phat-beat/blob/master/projects/vlc-radio/vlcd/etc/vlcd/default.m3u](https://github.com/pimoroni/phat-beat/blob/master/projects/vlc-radio/vlcd/etc/vlcd/default.m3u)