Philip Howard

Looking over the init script, it's presumably because vlc runs unprivileged as the "pi" user which does not have access to use port 80. Stretching back into distant memory, I...

Which process did you use to update the firmware? It's possible you could have Skywriter HAT firmware instead of XL. I'll be honest- it's a *long* *LONG* time since I've...

Some steps for the XL Skywriter firmware update procedure: First, get the firmware: ``` wget http://get.pimoroni.com/skywriter-fw.tgz ``` Extract: ``` tar -xzf skywriter-fw.tgz ``` Then run it: ``` cd skywriter-fw sudo...

Did the above help at all?

Great idea! And thanks for sharing. This would be far easier for people to build upon/modify than my super minimal read-only PiratePython-based distro.

Interestingly we've also made the shift from VLC to Mopidy with our Pirate Audio boards, since the VLC solution was a bit meh. More interestingly- the Mopidy team/community (a few...

Hmmm I think this is because `main.py` is just `import _launcher` but it should be something like: ```python try: import launcher except ImportError import _launcher ``` You can probably make...

Oh it *should* have been: ``` try: import launcher except ImportError: import _launcher ``` note the missing ":". I wondered why the syntax highlighting was broken! :facepalm:

Which display are you using?

> things in the RTC world rarely change They are.. indeed... not exciting. :laughing: Thank you very much! Shout if you need anything.