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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon pimoroni

Pimoroni HATs not supported for Arch-Linux?

Open Aadniz opened this issue 6 years ago • 4 comments

Hi.

After struggling to setup i3 tiling manager for Raspbian, I was recommended by someone over at Reddit to switch to Arch-Linux. I thought this was a good idea as I'm very familiar with Arch.

But when it came to the installation of the 5 HATs I'm using, I get a message saying:

Your operating system is not supported, sorry!

Is it possible to bypass this?

What is the reason it is not supported?

Aadniz avatar Feb 08 '19 17:02 Aadniz

A few reasons:

  1. Time - there's not enough of it to support/test/debug installers on more than one OS
  2. Experience - I have limited experience in Arch, I've been using debian-like systems for ~20 years
  3. Need - It's assumed anyone making the choice to switch to Arch probably doesn't need our one-line installer scripts anyway. In most cases you can just sudo pip install productname

In most cases the Python libraries will work fine, though. Try:

pip install unicornhathd

And git clone this repository for the examples.

Gadgetoid avatar Feb 11 '19 14:02 Gadgetoid

Thank you! It worked!!

EDIT

... It only worked for unicornHD so far. Having issues with speakerPhat and fourletterphat

Aadniz avatar Feb 13 '19 21:02 Aadniz

Speaker pHAT I’m not surprised by since it requires proper configuration of the i2s audio output and ALSA. FourLetter pHAT I’m surprised by since it’s just an i2c device.

Gadgetoid avatar Feb 15 '19 20:02 Gadgetoid

Sorry for late response. I'm waiting for some new parts for the "computer"

I get this error when trying to run FourLetter pHAT:

20190227_211216

However... I'm thinking about switching back to Raspbian, and do a fresh installation.

Aadniz avatar Feb 27 '19 20:02 Aadniz