Hyperion on RPI4

I'm trying to run hyperion on a rpi 4 with raspbian os 64.

I installed it following these instructions: https://github.com/hyperion-pr…ter/Installation.md#linux

My problem is the leds wont turn on because hyperion needs to run as root so I tried using the following command: `sudo updateHyperionUser -u root` and that does't help.

I also tried running these commands:

sudo systemctl disable --now hyperion@pi

sudo systemctl enable --now hyperion@root

sudo systemctl disable --quiet hyperion@pi.service --now

sudo systemctl enable --quiet hyperion@root.service --now

But when I do I get this in my terminal:

Failed to disable unit: Unit file hyperion@pi.service does not exist.

I also tried running the commands with hyperiond and get the same results, any ideas what might be the issue so I can get this running as root?

Attached is a copy of my logs.txt

Thanks.

pclin Thanks for pointing that out I tried chanign the username and this is what I get:

benmarte@raspberrypi:~/Documents/RetroPie-Setup $ sudo systemctl disable --now hyperion@benmarte

Failed to disable unit: Unit file hyperion@benmarte.service does not exist.

benmarte@raspberrypi:~/Documents/RetroPie-Setup $ sudo systemctl disable --now hyperiond@benmarte

Failed to disable unit: Unit file hyperiond@benmarte.service does not exist.

benmarte@raspberrypi:~/Documents/RetroPie-Setup $ sudo systemctl disable --quiet hyperion@benmarte.service --now

Failed to disable unit: Unit file hyperion@benmarte.service does not exist.

benmarte@raspberrypi:~/Documents/RetroPie-Setup $ sudo systemctl disable --quiet hyperiond@benmarte.service --now

Failed to disable unit: Unit file hyperiond@benmarte.service does not exist.

Any other ideas I can try? Thanks.

Ok so I solved this by doing a few things.

First I installed rasbian buster edition in order to get DispmanX since the latest raspbian uses a different display manager which is not compatible with hyperion.

Then I changed to use spi instead of gpio this solved the running hyperion as root issue I was having.

Finally I had to modify my /boot/config.txt to include the following:

dtparam=spi=on

core_freq=250

force_turbo=1

Now hyperion works, next up to install retropie