Posts by Entertain_i_Pro

Hello again,

happy new year! I wish you all the best!

So many thanks again for your message and explanation.

I don't know exactly what I did, but now I have the same problem again that they don't work.

Meanwhile I bought a normal Bluetooth LED controller to check if the LEDs work and they do (see picture below).

So everything is fine with the wiring and eletryzitiy of the LEDs.

I used GPIO PINs 20 (MOSI) and 21 (SCLK) as you sad, last time it worked (see picture below).

I also selected SPI1.0 in Hyperion and in the preview everything works, just nothing happens (see picture below).

Here is my config.txt, so now I'm running Hyperion on Pi OS, I installed it and everything is updated and upgraded, but maybe I tryed to much in the last days:

# For more options and information see
# http://rptl.io/configtxt
# Some settings may impact device functionality. See link above for details


# Uncomment some or all of these to enable the optional hardware interfaces
#dtparam=i2c_arm=on
#dtparam=i2s=on
#dtparam=spi=on


# Enable audio (loads snd_bcm2835)
dtparam=audio=on


# Additional overlays and parameters are documented
# /boot/firmware/overlays/README


# Automatically load overlays for detected cameras
camera_auto_detect=1


# Automatically load overlays for detected DSI displays
display_auto_detect=1


# Automatically load initramfs files, if found
auto_initramfs=1


# Enable DRM VC4 V3D driver
dtoverlay=vc4-kms-v3d
max_framebuffers=2


# Don't have the firmware create an initial video= setting in cmdline.txt.
# Use the kernel's default instead.
disable_fw_kms_setup=1


# Run in 64-bit mode
arm_64bit=1


# Disable compensation for displays with overscan
disable_overscan=1


# Run as fast as firmware / board allows
arm_boost=1
over_voltage=6
arm_freq=2400


[cm4]
# Enable host mode on the 2711 built-in XHCI USB controller.
# This line should be removed if the legacy DWC2 controller is required
# (e.g. for USB device mode) or if USB support is not required.
otg_mode=1


[cm5]
dtoverlay=dwc2,dr_mode=host


[all]
dtparam=spi=on
dtoverlay=spi1-3cs


dtparam=pciex1_gen=3

Many thanks in advance for your help!

Hello Ambient_theatre77,

thank you very much for this tip!!!

Now it works!!! Unbelievable!!! Thank you so much!!! 🥳😍😊👍

So I added the code ‘dtoverlay=spi1-3cs’ to the ‘config.txt’ and connected the LED strip to pins 20 and 21 as you said and now it works perfectly, thank you!

I didn't find this information in the ‘Getting Started’ manual on the Hyperion website:

Getting Started · Hyperion documentation

Maybe this page needs an update?

Where can I find information about which pins Hyperion use?

And which user would you recommend I should run Hyperion if I'm using the Raspberry Pi OS and have Hyperion installed?

I'm running it as root now. Would I be better running it as the Hyperion user or as my own user?

Many thanks in advance,

Your Entertain!

Thank you very much for your message.

Yes, you are right, I double checked it and in the first video I saw a guy was also setting the SPI device to spidev0.0 and connecting the LED strips to GPIO10 PIN19 and GPIO11 PIN23. But I'm already using these PINs, so I set the SPI device back to spidev0.0, but that didn't help.

How can I ask the Pi which SPI device is currently active or in use or connected?

One interesting thing is that when I switch the PINs 19 and 23, the light is on continuously on, see pictures below.

But I can't do anything with the strip.

There is no effect I can apply, no USB video signal.

Even the RGB Byte Order Wizard can't help, not even switching directions or anything else.

It's like they are shortened.

Switching the PINs back they are off again.

Here are some additional information about the SPI:

Hello!

Thank you very much for your help!

So with the WebIU port 8090 there is no problem with accessing the Hyperion configuration page and there is also no problem with the ssh connection, so yes I do have access.

Now I changed the root user back to the hyperion user as you recommended.

Here is my detailed log and I also added some screenshots:

Hyperion System Summary Report (My Hyperion Config)

Reported instance: [0] - First LED Hardware instance

< ----- System information -------------------- >

Hyperion Server:

- Build: (HEAD detached at a93d79b) (Paulchen-Panther-cb85d2d/a93d79b-1705568419)

- Build time: Jan 28 2024 10:21:59

- Git Remote: https://github.com/hyperion-project/hyperion.ng

- Version: 2.0.16

- UI Lang: de (BrowserLang: de-DE)

- UI Access: expert

- Avail Screen Cap.: dispmanx,framebuffer,qt

- Avail Video Cap.: v4l2

- Avail Audio Cap.: audio

- Avail Services: boblight,cec,effectengine,forwarder,flatbuffer,protobuffer,mDNS,SSDP,borderdetection

- Config path: /home/hyperion/.hyperion

- Database: read/write

- Mode: Non-GUI

Hyperion Server OS:

- Distribution: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)

- Architecture: arm64

- CPU Type: Raspberry Pi 5 Model B Rev 1.0

- CPU Revision: d04170

- Kernel: linux (6.1.0-rpi8-rpi-2712 (WS: 64))

- Root/Admin: false

- Qt Version: 6.4.2

- Python Version: 3.11.2

- Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

< ----- Configured Instances ------------------ >

0: First LED Hardware instance, Running: true

< ----- This instance's priorities ------------ >

001: VISIBLE - (EFFECT) (Owner: My Modded Effect)

253: INVISIBLE - (V4L) (Owner: V4L2)

Autoselect: true

< ----- This instance components' status ------->

ALL - true

SMOOTHING - true

BLACKBORDER - true

FORWARDER - false

BOBLIGHTSERVER - false

GRABBER - false

V4L - true

AUDIO - false

LEDDEVICE - true

< ----- Current Log --------------------------- >

2024-12-17T23:52:37.731Z [EFFECTFILES] (INFO) 41 effects loaded from directory :/effects/

2024-12-17T23:52:37.733Z [EFFECTFILES] (INFO) 23 effect schemas loaded from directory :/effects/schema/

2024-12-17T23:52:37.736Z [EFFECTFILES] (INFO) 0 effects loaded from directory /home/hyperion/.hyperion/custom-effects/

2024-12-17T23:52:37.791Z [DAEMON] (INFO) Qt grabber created

2024-12-17T23:52:37.791Z [V4L2] (INFO) Set image size decimation to 10

2024-12-17T23:52:37.791Z [V4L2] (INFO) Set flipmode to NO_CHANGE

2024-12-17T23:52:37.791Z [V4L2] (INFO) Signal detection area set to: 0.400000,0.100000 x 0.460000,0.900000

2024-12-17T23:52:37.791Z [V4L2] (INFO) Signal threshold set to: {0, 255, 0}

2024-12-17T23:52:37.791Z [V4L2] (INFO) Set new frames per second to: 60 fps

2024-12-17T23:52:37.931Z [V4L2] (INFO) Started

2024-12-17T23:52:37.933Z [EVENTS-SCHED] (INFO) Disabling event scheduler

2024-12-17T23:52:37.934Z [DAEMON] (INFO) CEC event handler created

2024-12-17T23:52:37.805Z [LEDDEVICE|First LED Hardware instance] (INFO) Start LedDevice 'apa102'.

2024-12-17T23:52:37.805Z [LEDDEVICE|First LED Hardware instance] (INFO) [apa102] Setting maximum brightness to [31] = 100%

2024-12-17T23:52:37.805Z [LEDDEVICE|First LED Hardware instance] (INFO) Switching device apa102 ON

2024-12-17T23:52:37.805Z [LEDDEVICE|First LED Hardware instance] (INFO) Device apa102 is ON

2024-12-17T23:52:37.805Z [LEDDEVICE|First LED Hardware instance] (INFO) LedDevice 'apa102' enabled

2024-12-17T23:52:37.806Z [EFFECTENGINE|First LED Hardware instance] (INFO) Run effect "Rainbow swirl fast" on channel 1

2024-12-17T23:52:37.831Z [HYPERION|First LED Hardware instance] (INFO) Initial foreground effect 'Rainbow swirl fast' started

2024-12-17T23:52:37.831Z [EFFECTENGINE|First LED Hardware instance] (INFO) Run effect "Warm mood blobs" on channel 254

2024-12-17T23:52:37.831Z [HYPERION|First LED Hardware instance] (INFO) Initial background effect 'Warm mood blobs' started

2024-12-17T23:52:37.934Z [HYPERION-INSTMGR] (INFO) Hyperion instance 'First LED Hardware instance' has been started

2024-12-17T23:52:37.866Z [EFFECTENGINE|First LED Hardware instance] (INFO) Run effect "Warm mood blobs" on channel 254

2024-12-17T23:52:37.867Z [HYPERION|First LED Hardware instance] (INFO) Initial background effect 'Warm mood blobs' started

2024-12-17T23:52:37.870Z [EFFECTENGINE|First LED Hardware instance] (INFO) Effect [Warm mood blobs] finished

2024-12-17T23:52:37.932Z [FLATBUFSERVER] (INFO) Started on port 19400

2024-12-17T23:52:37.933Z [PROTOSERVER] (INFO) Started on port 19445

2024-12-17T23:52:37.946Z [JSONSERVER] (INFO) Started on port 19444

2024-12-17T23:52:37.953Z [EVENTS-CEC] (INFO) CEC handler disabled

2024-12-17T23:52:37.977Z [WEBSERVER] (INFO) 'Hyperion http-Webserver' started on port 8090

2024-12-17T23:52:37.986Z [WEBSERVER] (INFO) 'Hyperion https-Webserver' started on port 8092

2024-12-17T23:52:45.869Z [EFFECTENGINE|First LED Hardware instance] (INFO) Previous line repeats 1 times

2024-12-17T23:52:45.869Z [EFFECTENGINE|First LED Hardware instance] (INFO) Effect [Rainbow swirl fast] finished

2024-12-18T18:39:26.561Z [EFFECTENGINE|First LED Hardware instance] (INFO) Run effect "My Modded Effect" on channel 1

Hello everyone,

I hope that my request for help is in the right place here. I just started working with the Raspberry Pi and Hyperion. I realy love the idea of Hyperion!

My big goal is to make one day my own ambient light for my big 100 inch screen. But for now I want to start with somthing smaller.

I have successfully managed to get a decent ambient light with my APA102 rgb strip running for my second monitor, 24 inch, with my 10 year old Raspberry Pi 1 Model B (armhf) as you can see in the attached picture and this experience was amazing! 

Now I bought a new Pi 5 and have actually done everything exactly the same as with the Pi 1. Everything is wired and plugged in the same way as before. I wire the SDI (DI) connection of the APA102 to Physical Pin 19 (MOSI) and also the CKI (CI) connection to Physical Pin 23 (SCLK) on the Raspberry Pi. I installed the arm64 Hyperbian operating system and also made all the necessary settings, such as setting the root user for Hyperion and activating SPI on the Pi.

However - and I am slowly reaching the end of my own knowledge and patience after almost 100 hours  - I have checked everything 1,000 times and the LEDs should actually work.... BUT this is not the case........

I would really appreciate your support.

Many thanks in advance and best regards,

Your Entertain

My results on the Pi 1:

Hi Lord-Grey,

many thanks for your message.

Do you need this?:

Hyperion Server:

- Build: (HEAD detached at 2.0.16) (Paulchen-Panther-cb85d2d/a93d79b-1705568419)

- Build time: Jul 29 2024 19:40:14

- Git Remote: https://github.com/hyperion-project/hyperion.ng

- Version: 2.0.16

- UI Lang: de (BrowserLang: de-DE)

- UI Access: expert

- Avail Screen Cap.: dispmanx,framebuffer,qt

- Avail Video Cap.: v4l2

- Avail Audio Cap.: audio

- Avail Services: boblight,cec,effectengine,forwarder,flatbuffer,protobuffer,mDNS,SSDP,borderdetection

- Config path: /root/.hyperion

- Database: read/write

- Mode: Non-GUI

Hyperion Server OS:

- Distribution: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)

- Architecture: arm64

- CPU Type: Raspberry Pi 5 Model B Rev 1.0

- CPU Revision: d04170

- Kernel: linux (6.6.51+rpt-rpi-2712 (WS: 64))

- Root/Admin: true

- Qt Version: 6.4.2

- Python Version: 3.11.2

- Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Log:

< ----- Current Log --------------------------- >

2024-12-17T00:13:19.323Z [EFFECTFILES] (INFO) 41 effects loaded from directory :/effects/

2024-12-17T00:13:19.326Z [EFFECTFILES] (INFO) 23 effect schemas loaded from directory :/effects/schema/

2024-12-17T00:13:19.327Z [EFFECTFILES] (INFO) 0 effects loaded from directory /root/.hyperion/custom-effects/

2024-12-17T00:13:19.380Z [DAEMON] (INFO) Qt grabber created

2024-12-17T00:13:19.381Z [V4L2] (INFO) Set flipmode to NO_CHANGE

2024-12-17T00:13:19.381Z [V4L2] (INFO) Signal detection area set to: 0.400000,0.100000 x 0.460000,0.900000

2024-12-17T00:13:19.381Z [V4L2] (INFO) Signal threshold set to: {0, 255, 0}

2024-12-17T00:13:19.381Z [V4L2] (INFO) Set new frames per second to: 60 fps

2024-12-17T00:13:19.610Z [V4L2] (INFO) Started

2024-12-17T00:13:19.613Z [EVENTS-SCHED] (INFO) Disabling event scheduler

2024-12-17T00:13:19.623Z [DAEMON] (INFO) CEC event handler created

2024-12-17T00:13:19.356Z [LEDDEVICE|First LED Hardware instance] (INFO) Start LedDevice 'apa102'.

2024-12-17T00:13:19.356Z [LEDDEVICE|First LED Hardware instance] (INFO) [apa102] Setting maximum brightness to [31] = 100%

2024-12-17T00:13:19.356Z [LEDDEVICE|First LED Hardware instance] (INFO) Switching device apa102 ON

2024-12-17T00:13:19.356Z [LEDDEVICE|First LED Hardware instance] (INFO) Device apa102 is ON

2024-12-17T00:13:19.356Z [LEDDEVICE|First LED Hardware instance] (INFO) LedDevice 'apa102' enabled

2024-12-17T00:13:19.395Z [EFFECTENGINE|First LED Hardware instance] (INFO) Run effect "Rainbow swirl fast" on channel 1

2024-12-17T00:13:19.480Z [HYPERION|First LED Hardware instance] (INFO) Initial foreground effect 'Rainbow swirl fast' started

2024-12-17T00:13:19.481Z [EFFECTENGINE|First LED Hardware instance] (INFO) Run effect "Warm mood blobs" on channel 254

2024-12-17T00:13:19.481Z [HYPERION|First LED Hardware instance] (INFO) Initial background effect 'Warm mood blobs' started

2024-12-17T00:13:19.482Z [BOBLIGHT|First LED Hardware instance] (INFO) Started on port: 19333

2024-12-17T00:13:19.623Z [HYPERION-INSTMGR] (INFO) Hyperion instance 'First LED Hardware instance' has been started

2024-12-17T00:13:19.613Z [PROTOSERVER] (INFO) Started on port 19445

2024-12-17T00:13:19.613Z [FLATBUFSERVER] (INFO) Started on port 19400

2024-12-17T00:13:19.657Z [JSONSERVER] (INFO) Started on port 19444

2024-12-17T00:13:19.670Z [EFFECTENGINE|First LED Hardware instance] (INFO) Effect [Warm mood blobs] finished

2024-12-17T00:13:19.671Z [EVENTS-CEC] (INFO) CEC handler disabled

2024-12-17T00:13:19.726Z [WEBSERVER] (INFO) 'Hyperion http-Webserver' started on port 8090

2024-12-17T00:13:19.757Z [WEBSERVER] (INFO) 'Hyperion https-Webserver' started on port 8092

2024-12-17T00:13:22.543Z [EFFECTENGINE|First LED Hardware instance] (INFO) Effect [Rainbow swirl fast] finished

2024-12-17T00:15:16.901Z [BOBLIGHT|First LED Hardware instance] (INFO) Stopped

2024-12-17T00:15:16.903Z [V4L2] (INFO) Stopped

2024-12-17T00:15:16.902Z [LEDDEVICE|First LED Hardware instance] (INFO) Switching device apa102 OFF

2024-12-17T00:15:16.908Z [LEDDEVICE|First LED Hardware instance] (INFO) Device apa102 is OFF

2024-12-17T00:15:16.959Z [EFFECTENGINE|First LED Hardware instance] (INFO) Run effect "Warm mood blobs" on channel 254

2024-12-17T00:15:16.959Z [HYPERION|First LED Hardware instance] (INFO) Initial background effect 'Warm mood blobs' started

2024-12-17T00:15:17.875Z [BOBLIGHT|First LED Hardware instance] (INFO) Started on port: 19333

2024-12-17T00:15:17.896Z [V4L2] (INFO) Started

2024-12-17T00:15:17.875Z [LEDDEVICE|First LED Hardware instance] (INFO) Switching device apa102 ON

2024-12-17T00:15:17.875Z [LEDDEVICE|First LED Hardware instance] (INFO) Device apa102 is ON

2024-12-17T00:15:17.875Z [LEDDEVICE|First LED Hardware instance] (INFO) LedDevice 'apa102' enabled

2024-12-17T00:15:17.993Z [EFFECTENGINE|First LED Hardware instance] (INFO) Effect [Warm mood blobs] finished

2024-12-17T00:15:52.483Z [LEDDEVICE|First LED Hardware instance] (INFO) Switching device apa102 OFF

2024-12-17T00:15:52.489Z [LEDDEVICE|First LED Hardware instance] (INFO) Device apa102 is OFF

2024-12-17T00:15:52.489Z [LEDDEVICE|First LED Hardware instance] (INFO) Stopped LedDevice 'apa102'

2024-12-17T00:15:52.490Z [LEDDEVICE|First LED Hardware instance] (INFO) Start LedDevice 'apa102'.

2024-12-17T00:15:52.490Z [LEDDEVICE|First LED Hardware instance] (INFO) [apa102] Setting maximum brightness to [31] = 100%

2024-12-17T00:15:52.490Z [LEDDEVICE|First LED Hardware instance] (INFO) Switching device apa102 ON

2024-12-17T00:15:52.490Z [LEDDEVICE|First LED Hardware instance] (INFO) Device apa102 is ON

2024-12-17T00:15:52.490Z [LEDDEVICE|First LED Hardware instance] (INFO) LedDevice 'apa102' enabled

2024-12-17T00:16:38.187Z [EFFECTENGINE|First LED Hardware instance] (INFO) Run effect "My Modded Effect" on channel 1

2024-12-17T00:16:41.522Z [EFFECTENGINE|First LED Hardware instance] (INFO) Effect [My Modded Effect] finished

2024-12-17T00:17:01.479Z [EVENTS-SCHED] (INFO) Disabling event scheduler

Hello everyone,

I've tried a lot and googled a lot, but unfortunately I can't manage to delete an instance.

I have already tried to deactivate the instance first and then delete it, but it's always the same, it can't be deleted and after deactivating it is still active, i don't understand this.

I would be very happy if someone could help me, thank you very much in advance.

Here is a screenshot: