# Trying to Program Plasma lights via GPIO

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**Created:** [April 1, 2020, 11:40pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/trying-to-program-plasma-lights-via-gpio/13461 "2020-04-01T23:40:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![RonaldL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5fc32e/32.png) [@RonaldL](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/RonaldL)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 11:40pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/trying-to-program-plasma-lights-via-gpio/13461/1 "2020-04-01T23:40:43Z")

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Trying to program lights to be individual solid colours

Going to be programming buttons to play sound and display image on a screen.

I have downloaded the plasma files

But the installer will not run.

Stating missing file and command not found

Anyone able to help. I’m new to this and I am a little lost. Thinking I have bitten off way more than I can chew for a beginner project.

Let me know if you’re able to assist!

Thanks

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**Author:** ![alphanumeric](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forums.pimoroni.com/alphanumeric/32/2729_2.png) [@alphanumeric](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/alphanumeric)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2020, 10:30am UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/trying-to-program-plasma-lights-via-gpio/13461/2 "2020-04-02T10:30:15Z")

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Buster Lite, or Buster with Desktop?  
Did you run this \> ` curl https://get.pimoroni.com/plasma | bash` from a terminal window?

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**Author:** ![alphanumeric](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forums.pimoroni.com/alphanumeric/32/2729_2.png) [@alphanumeric](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/alphanumeric)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2020, 10:44am UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/trying-to-program-plasma-lights-via-gpio/13461/3 "2020-04-02T10:44:27Z")

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Have a look see here,

> [@Plasma Software not working](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/plasma-software-not-working/13251):
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> I have a string of 6 DotStar LEDs that I’m trying to drive via my Picade x hat’s hacker port. But for some reason the plasma software doesn’t seem to be working? The software installed perfectly via curl https://get.pimoroni.com/plasma | bash I changed the plasma.service file’s output device option to -o SERIAL:/dev/ttyACM0 to reflect my x hat and I edited the plasma executable’s LED count from 10 to 6. After restarting my Picade, the LEDs do not light, which was my first sign that something …