Philip Howard

Pi VU Meter is basically deprecated since it's too broken, unstable, weird and old to meaningfully support. I've started work on a Pulse Audio based client to replace it, but...

This is the basic skeleton for connecting to a Pulse Audio server and hooking into the sample stream: https://github.com/pimoroni/pivumeter-pulseaudio/blob/main/pivumeter.cpp Just needs... y'know... all the other bits now!

Good point! Let's get the "what" out of the way first, then I'll deal with the "how" in documentation and, briefly, in another post here: A lot of the choices...

At this point I recall that the magic number `17` is not so magic after all- it's simply the number of LEDs wide that Scroll pHAT HD is. 17 is...

This is actually based on "ameter", a demo plugin for ALSA that displays a desktop VU meter. The trouble with that is it seems like a really terrible idea to...

The underlying PanTilt HAT class can support any smbus-compatible library: https://github.com/pimoroni/pantilt-hat/blob/543c92852fa227fffc0768599a00e47de28a3e33/library/pantilthat/pantilt.py#L69-L77 But you're right- since it's set up for you in `__init__.py` you don't get the opportunity to call the...

This could be a power fluctuation or intermittent wiring issue causing i2c communications with the driver chip on PanTilt HAT to be unstable. How is your setup wired/powered? It could...

Looks like support for RGB is mixed- the ones I tested with (a small NeoPixel ring) still work, but certain variations do not. The WS2812s are driven directly by firmware...

What would be your preference for adding additional kernel config options? PiratePython and Keybow use ConfigFs and a bunch of the associated modules to set up the appropriate interfaces. It...

That's a fair point, actually, Pi 4 can host Keybow and/or PiratePython. Right now I've got a config derived from the existing kernel.config that I'm hacking on. Remembering what to...