I truly love the unicorn hat. But it has some limitations atm. I only can run it with Raspbian and Retropie. I would love to use it with OSMC. I know OSMC is kinda open source and has way less limitations as libreelec or openelec. To use the unicorn hat with osmc would be amazing.
If you mean that the install script refuses to run, that is by design (or at least the filtering is not permissive). Have you tried to manually install unicornhat? does it work?
the repository readme contains detailed information on how to install unicornhat manually:
Note that you will need to install python-dev
I would not get my hope too high however - there is a reason the script is closed to some OSes, at least the last time I checked functionality in MATE the low-level rpi-ws281x just did not work.
right… I think you would need to install a compiler… very strange the python-dev package wouldn’t depend on ‘build-esssnetial’ but that is my best guess. Try: