WeatherHat: Failed to add edge protection

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I have just received the Weather Hat from Pimoroni.
I have been battling to get the weather.py or any other code to run. I have started with a fresh install and tried on various Raspberry Pi 3’s. I keep getting the following error:

RuntimeError: Failed to add edge detection.

I am starting to think that the Hat is faulty, any help please?

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Are you using Pi OS Lite? If so, you might need to sudo apt install python3-pip git libatlas-base-dev to grab the extra dependencies.

(and then possibly run our installer again - I can’t remember if that was necessary)

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Hi
Nope not using Pi OS Lite, using the full version.

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Hmm, did you get any errors when you ran the installer?

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None at all. I have done a few fresh installs, each time the same?

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I am having the same issue. Cant seem to find assistance anyhwere

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A year and no help with this?
Fresh install of latest Raspbian and getting this error.
Any help gratefully received.
Error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/pi/go.py", line 4, in <module>
    sensor = weatherhat.WeatherHAT()
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/pi/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/weatherhat/__init__.py", line 80, in __init__
    self._ioe.on_interrupt(self.handle_ioe_interrupt)
  File "/home/pi/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/ioexpander/__init__.py", line 411, in on_interrupt
    self._gpio.add_event_detect(self._interrupt_pin, self._gpio.FALLING, callback=callback, bouncetime=1)
RuntimeError: Failed to add edge detection

Code:

import weatherhat
import time

sensor = weatherhat.WeatherHAT()

while True:
        sensor.update(interval = 0.5)
        time.sleep(1.0)
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You can contact tech support by e-mail.
Contact Us for Raspberry Pi Technical Support - Pimoroni

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Thanks. Just seems a shame that more than one person has this issue and the conversation suddenly stopped.
I’ll email and post back here with what emerges.

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So sorry that this one fell off my radar!

This sounds somewhat like your error - might be worth checking that you don’t have anything else trying to use BCM 4 (or 1 wire enabled in sudo raspi-config)?: