The firmware update (1.1 APA102) worked! Thank you so much for posting/updating this thread. I've had a "dead" Lightberry kit ever since I switched from OpenElec to HyperBian. This worked when nothing else did. Using a RPi3 FYI.
Bonus -- use these settings for the Lightberry HD kit (documented from Lightberry itself):
[INDENT] UTV007 based EasyCap grabbers
"grabber-v4l2" :
{
"device" : "/dev/video0",
"input" : 0,
"standard" : "PAL",
"width" : 720,
"height" : 576,
"frameDecimation" : 2,
"sizeDecimation" : 8,
"priority" : 800,
"mode" : "2D",
"cropLeft" : 5,
"cropRight" : 5,
"cropTop" : 5,
"cropBottom" : 5,
"redSignalThreshold" : 0.2,
"greenSignalThreshold" : 0.2,
"blueSignalThreshold" : 0.2
},
"device": {
"colorOrder": "bgr",
"rate": 500000,
"type": "adalightapa102",
"name": "MyPi",
"output": "/dev/ttyACM0"
},[/INDENT]