Top buttons don't light up!

[ipadeflteacher]

I have the ten button kit. I can't seem to get the top buttons to light up. I've doubled checked the wiring and the code. I got help on the Pimoroni Forums but I still can't get the top buttons to light up. I can change the colors of the start/select and side buttons with the software but that's it.
Thanks!

[Gadgetoid]

Sorry for the lack of response- Did you ever figure this out?

[ipadeflteacher]

Nothing seemed to work. But I haven’t given up. I kind of got side tracked with other projects but I will get back to it soon. Thanks for keeping in touch Richard

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[Gadgetoid]

If you get a moment at some point, try swapping the first top LED PCB with one that's working on the side, just to see if it's a dead PCB that's breaking the chain.

I've recently totally overhauled the Plasma codebase (or rather, finally merged my overhaul) so that also might help if it's some code weirdness.

[ipadeflteacher]

I will try that thanks! Where can I download the new code? Richard

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[Gadgetoid]

I've just updated it in this repository:

git clone https://github.com/pimoroni/plasma
cd plasma/daemon
sudo ./install.sh

Config is now in /etc/plasma/plasma.conf and your data/clock pins (14, 15) might need swapped to work at all.

[PinkFreud]

If it helps, I've come across a couple of faulty Plasma boards (I bought 3 kits here for a build I was working on this year!), where at least one had a faulty Out port - In would work, but nothing behind it would light up.

In other words, definitely test different positions for the PCBs - as Gadgetoid said, this could be a hw fault.

(Gadgetoid: Don't worry about this issue. Your awesome coworkers at Pimoroni have already sent me replacements for the faulty boards I wound up with!).