Hyperion hypercon problem no green and white lights

All the test images are working fine here.

so long,

Hias

Hard to tell, most likely though I'd guess it's an electrical connection problem. Just re-read the thread and you didn't mention if you used a 3.3V>5V level-shifter (eg 74HCT08 or 32) between the RPi and the LED strip. Without it operation will be borderline and it could be that you just were lucky it worked on the RPi3.

so long,

Hias

I'm not using a level-shifter myself, I use a "Adalight" / Arduino to connect the LED strip. The Arduino outputs 5V signals so there's no problem to drive the WS2801 (which require a minimum of 4V for logic high input signals).

The 74HCT00 circuit on the hyperion wiki Supported hardware | Hyperion - Forum looks fine, if you build it yourself don't forget to connect +5V from the RPi to pin 14 and GND to pin 7 of the 74HCT00 - that small detail is missing in the schematic (buit their PCB looks OK).

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Hias

Sorry, don't have a picture - the board is tucked behind my wall-mounted TV.

It's just an Arduino Pro Micro clone with the Adalight Ledstream sketch, connected to RPi via USB. There should be plenty of info on the 'net.

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Hias

I've got a WS2801 strand with 50 LEDs, similar to this one 12mm Diffused Thin Digital RGB LED Pixels (Strand of 25) [WS2801] ID: 322 - $39.95 : Adafruit Industries, Unique & fun DIY electronics and kits

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Hias

It should work fine (all WS2801 LED strips should behave identically so should work).

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Hias

Arduino sketch is on github ledstream.pde

Depending on which Arduino (clone) you use you may need to modify the source (see comments at the beginning) and some of the smaller/cheaper boards require you to solder in the 0.1" connectors yourself.

Just make sure you get an Arduino with Atmega 32u4 (this is the one with USB built-in, the older/other Arduinos with separate USB/serial chip won't work well as communication will be too slow).

In hypercon / hyperion.config.json set the type to "adalight" and port to "/dev/ttyACM0"

For other details about arduino stuff and the Adalight / ledstream sketch just search the net, there are tons of infos out there.

so long,

Hias

No, go for Atmega 32u4 only - the other ones without built-in USB will be a PITA

Just solder the connector pins to the RPi and then cable up the LED strip as usual (eg with DuPont wires).

so long,

Hias

No, as I wrote in posts 31 and 33 you need one with the Atmega 32U4, like this one Arduino Micro

Refer to Arduino docs for pin assignment.

so long,

Hias