mikemountain/nfl-led-scoreboard

Board Not Lighting Up on Install

CameronBarrett33 opened this issue · 7 comments

CameronBarrett33 commented

I haven't been able to get the led board to light up on initial install, following the documentation provided.

I first tried adding NFL to the same pi as my working MLB, then once I installed the NFL board, MLB stopped working also. I then tried on a fresh pi OS to isolate NFL, and still was not able to light up the board.

pjockey commented

I have mlb, nhl and nfl all on one board. I use the supervisor program to move around the different boards and they all are working fine. I just re-did the nfl board with the instructions below.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git python-pip
git clone --recursive https://github.com/mikemountain/nfl-led-scoreboard
cd nfl-led-scoreboard/
sudo chmod +x install.sh
sudo ./install.sh

Are you running the program thru ssh to the Pi?

running this command in terminal
sudo python main.py --led-gpio-mapping=adafruit-hat-pwm --led-brightness=60 --led-slowdown-gpio=2

are there any errors showing up?

CameronBarrett33 commented

I am not running through ssh im working off my pi. I do get an error while running install.sh:

Cannot uninstall 'rgbmatrix'. It is a distutils installed project and thus we cannot accurately determine which files belong to it which would lead to only a partial uninstall.

pjockey commented

what all do yo have on your Pi? Is the Raspbian the minimal version? No GUI/Graphical version.

CameronBarrett33 commented

I'm doing it from a GUI I would switch to CLI only once I got it up and running.

pjockey commented

I think these scoreboards need to run in the Raspbian Minimal, no GUI or desktop. They need as much resources as possible to work properly.

If you need help with ssh part, lots of help around here.

CameronBarrett33 commented

I got it to work! I deleted the venv directory and that did the trick. I'm no expert but it seems that the venv directory had some python 3 in it possibly causing a version mismatch since MLB and NFL both use 2.7. @pjockey thanks for the help!

pbullion commented

I'm having this problem as well. @CameronBarrett33 after deleting the venv folder did you do anything else? ive tried a few things involving that and no luck