ST7735: "IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory"

[guitarmanjon]

Hi all,

I’ve finally had a chance to try out my new Breakout Garden and ST7735 display. I thought I’d start small by trying out some of the examples included when using the suggested one-line installer (curl https://get.pimoroni.com/st7735 | bash).

No matter which example I try, I always get the following error:

Any ideas why I might be getting this error?
Many thanks in advance
jon

[alphanumeric]

Double check that SPI is enabled in Raspberry Pi Configuration or raspi-config if Raspbian Lite.
Here is what I went through with the 1.3 LCD Breakout

1.3 color tft LCD on btreakout garden pHat, SPI i2c

I’m trying to get my 1.3" SPI Colour LCD (240x240) Breakout working with a Breakout Garden pHat The Breakout garden Installer didn’t find it, I had to do the manual install from here Running the scrolling-test.py example from idle3 got me a no module named st7789. Running sudo pip3 install st7789 fixed that but gets me a new error message that I think is because its plugged into the breakout garden? Traceback (most recent call last): File “/home/pi/Color LCD/scrolling-text.py”, …

[guitarmanjon]

Thank you so much for this. Fixed it straight away. Very much appreciated.
jon

[alphanumeric]

No problem. Enjoy your display. The installers for the most part usually turn on i2s,i2c or SPI if its needed. Doesn’t hurt to double check anyway, especially when you get an error trying use said device. ;)