RPi 5 support(?)

[GuyPerets106]

Hi , I'm using RPi 5 after using the same ws2812b strip on the RPi 4. It now says Hardware revision is not supported.
It is expected soon?
Thanks

[JustBKen]

jgarff/rpi_ws281x#528 (comment)

RPI5 support is currently WIP in the original C code. It works, but is not not implemented in the mainline. Would be great if this fix is integrated into this repo.

[Gadgetoid]

J. dropped me a heads up, and I've been watching the GitHub notifications flood in. Taking a bit of a back seat because I have so much else to do, but once it's in mainline I'm happy to bump the module here.

Possible we need a bunch of bugfixes to the bindings too, since the issues are piling up 🫠

[jgarff]

J. dropped me a heads up, and I've been watching the GitHub notifications flood in. Taking a bit of a back seat because I have so much else to do, but once it's in mainline I'm happy to bump the module here.

Possible we need a bunch of bugfixes to the bindings too, since the issues are piling up 🫠

In the meantime, it might be good to have a rpi5 branch that points to the rpi_ws281x C library rpi5 branch. Then folks could build it on that branch and it would work in Python without having to do submodule/copy tricks. I can help out there, but I don't know if I have permission to do this in the python repo.

[Gadgetoid]

In the meantime, it might be good to have a rpi5 branch that points to the rpi_ws281x C library rpi5 branch.

I did wonder, as I typed the above, if that would be a smart idea!

Edit: Turns out I'd long forgotten who set this org up and you'll need @penfold42 to give you write access!

[Gadgetoid]

Tagged a release and hung some (untested) test builds here: https://github.com/rpi-ws281x/rpi-ws281x-python/releases/tag/pi5-beta1

Hopefully it just works, all my Pi 5s are busy! 😆 😬