The Raspberry Pi Thread [4]

At one time I used the dash board quit a lot. Lately I've been just running the one line installers. I add the command(s) for that as a remark to the python file I run on that setup. If I ever have to start over its all listed in my python file. I have more Pi's than I do Hats or pHats so I hardly ever swap them around.

Hi alpha, how do you use those .py samples for scroll phat? Basically, how do you make them work?

First have a look see if the installer created an examples folder on your Pi. It may be in a sub folder, look for a Pimoroni or scroll pHat folder. If it did you can run them from there, if not copy the ones you want to try to your Pi with the scrollpHat on it.
There are a couple of different ways to run them. One is to right click and open with, then select the python editor you prefer. I like to use idle. Once its open in the editor, you can run it from there, idle has a RUN option in the top menu bar, F5 does it to I believe. Doing it that way should get you some error messages if something goes wrong.
Another way to do it is from command line, something like sudo python3 /home/pi/that_file.py. You may have to change the path to match where the file is. If you cd to the folder its in, its just sudo python3 that_file.py.

I add that info to my python files too, as remarks like so.

Code:

# Last edited on Jun 9th 2018
# run sudo crontab -e
# add
# @reboot python3 /home/pi/THP.py &

I add it to the end of the file for quick reference.

EDIT: I guess I should have used the code tages, "reboot" is going to wonder why he was mentioned in this thread lol.
EDIT Edit: Code tags didn't change things oh well.

Got it! Thank you @alphanumeric & @caperjack !

Did that come with a diffuser? I added a black ninja diffuser to both my sense hats. It softens the text and makes it look more natural, IMHO anyway.

Nice job by the way, didn't take you long to figure it out.