I soldered the GPIO header on to the raspberry pi and installed the requirements using the script given on github but my scroll pHAt will not light up at all, I have tried tyding up the soldering on the GPIO pins on the pi zero and reinstalling the requirements but still no luck, i fixed the fonts.png error but am still getting this one: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/pi/Pimoroni/scrollphat/test-all.py", line 3, in <module> import scrollphat File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/scrollphat.py", line 166, in <module> set_mode() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/scrollphat.py", line 68, in set_mode bus.write_i2c_block_data(I2C_ADDR, CMD_SET_MODE, [MODE_5X11]) IOError: [Errno 5] Input/output error
Can anyone help please as i am stumped as how to solve this as I haven’t a clue as a relative beginner, Unfortunately I only have a a zero and a B rather than a B+ or 2 so can’t check the scroll pHAT on another Pi
edit having had another look at some photos do I have to solder the female header onto the scroll pHAt board? Sorry if this sounds silly but the product page doesn’t make this clear and to a beginner I have been taking the assembled scroll board to mean i didn’t have to solder onto it?
My scroll pHAT doesn’t seem to be working despite installing the requirements via the script on github, I’ve copied the font.png to the scrollphat directory but I keep getting this error
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “count.py”, line 1, in
import scrollphat
File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/scrollphat.py”, line 167, in
load_font()
File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/scrollphat.py”, line 46, in load_font
font_image = Image.open(font_path)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/PIL/Image.py”, line 2251, in open
fp = builtins.open(fp, “rb”)
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: ‘/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/font.png’
To use the scroll hat in Python 3 as well, font.png has to be copied to
/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/
I think that the file is being copied by the installation, but to the wrong location. It is ending up in /usr/local/lib or /usr/local, if I recall correctly.
I used the Debian Jesse Lite image to set up my Pi Zero. I had to install python-dev and python-imaging to get rid of the PIL error. No I also get the font.png message.
Where did you copy the font.png file from?
Thanks, Konk, I was missing python-imaging. Also had downloaded the font.png webpage and not the raw image some how. The path in github, if you don’t have it is.
Hey all, there’s obviously something up with our installer for Scroll pHAT and we’re looking into it. It should be as simple as running the one-liner and you’re away. We’ll have an update soon! In the mean time thanks for supporting each other and figuring these bits out - it’s a very new product and we’ve been extremely busy recently but we’re looking into it!
The one-line installer up now should get the Scroll pHAT running on Jessie. For Wheezy it’s a big can of worms and the plan is to do away with the PIL/pillow requirement.
… in the meantime, as @Richard pointed out python-imaging should fill the gap for Wheezy, but it’s Python2 only (unless you fight a battle or two).
