I saw on Jane’s GitHub that you are looking for pwm . There’s someone on addons4kodi subreddit. “ikid” is working on that with Jane’s add-on. Though No pull request as yet. May be of help?
Thanks! I saw that post today =)
A LibreElec forum moderator has posted a " how to" on Jane’s add-on as well as testing and offering a brief opinion on it’s capabilties and performance.
Nice, congrats @Jane_t
Just to add that the moderator team on the main Kodi website are also aware of this addon solution and will be referring people to it from the main site as well if/when the issue is reported there.
Thanks for letting me know. Lots of LE users and Pimoroni will welcome that. I’m really pleased with Jane’s addon. Also worth a mention, That Jane and at least 2 others are looking to integrate pwm control. The working PWM Raspbian buster code has been published there’s a link in issues on Jane’s GitHub page. I don’t feel it necessary it works really well as the add-on is.
N.B. i have no affiliation to Pimoroni or the shim. Just a happy user, happy that Jane could be bothered to share her skills rather than just fix her own fanshim.
I think this needs to be addressed.
Yes, we’re a business, but the way we operate is very much community-oriented. You can’t work in the Raspberry Pi world and not operate in a community-oriented way, or at least you won’t make many friends if you do. One thing our customers appreciate, I think, is our interaction with them.
With our products, we put open-source, shareable, hackable software out into the world, almost always in the form of Python libraries and software for Raspbian/other Debian-based distros. The reason for this is that the vast majority of users are working with such a setup. LibreElec is popular, but still relatively niche in the grand scheme of things. As you’ve discovered, it’s awkward to shoe-horn add-ons into it also…
Although we punch above our weight, we’re a small crew, especially on the software side. It’s basically just Phil (@gadgetoid) who develops and maintains our (now pretty big) collection of code. This means that we have to prioritise and focus our efforts where they’ll be most useful, and we do that by making Python libraries that work well, with useful examples, and then encourage the community to build on, extend, hack it to their own needs.
We’re always hugely grateful to anyone who contributes code, projects, or whatever it may be, because it makes our products better for everyone. We highlight these by sharing them on social media, on our product pages, and elsewhere, and we’ll definitely do that in this case.
(Edit: I’ve shared this on Twitter and on the product page. Thanks for making it, @Jane_t!)
Lastly, we’re hugely grateful to @alphanumeric, who is a force of nature here on the forums, with literally thousands of helpful and insightful posts. Please be respectful of that, @Notafan
On a more general note, these forums are supposed to be a friendly place where people can get help, share projects, and such, so please do think before you post. It’s always frustrating hitting up against problems, but aggression and personal attacks won’t get you any closer to the solution.
I appreciate your sentiments. I have had Rpi’s since the getgo and am therefore well aware and appreciative of the contributions made by the community in terms of the huge development by the community for the community, without reward. That being said, your site offered no help with the Libreelec fanshim issue, however due to the lack of support with your product many users had addressed the problem in other forums and sites. My comment was relating to the wording of @alphanumeric post, after the add-on solution was resolved by jane_t , I stand by my original statement as to furtherment of a commercial venture, that has the right to profit from open source developers work, but need not claim benefit of the community as raison d’etre.
@Raspberrytart Just a quick note. Pimoroni’s staff are some of the nicest kind hearted staff I know.
I’ve developed software that supports their stuff and in no way do they reap rewards from me.
I talk to these folk on a daily basis and they’re always working outside of work hours to create great software for their customers. Yes, they’re a business but you won’t find a more community centred company out there.
Their support is second to none. And trust me, i’ve dealt with a lot of bad support teams in my life… :D
I don’t doubt it. But maybe you should read the whole thread and not just the last comment? And take another shot. My “criticism” is not relating to the pimoroni team. Btw I’m not interested in getting involved in a Facebook style spat.
I’m going to close the thread. It’s been resolved and now it’s descending to a point where no one wins, which is sad.