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64x32 RGB LED Matrix Not working

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Hello,

Have purchased the following components and have tried to configure them with no success.
  • 1 x 64x32 RGB LED Matrix - 3mm pitch[ID:2279]
    1 x 5V 4A (4000mA) switching power supply - UL Listed[ID:1466]
    1 x GPIO Ribbon Cable 2x8 IDC Cable - 16 pins 12" long[ID:4170] (I didn't realize that the matrix came with a ribbon cable so now I have an extra one)
    1 x Adafruit RGB Matrix Bonnet for Raspberry Pi[ID:3211]
Have configured them to both my Raspberry Pi Zero-W and my Raspberry Pi 4 (4GB model).

After running through the installation and turning all pixels on and to white I get the following images. Further, even running the demos I can see rows not turning on at all.

Looking elsewhere on this forum I can see that others have tried the following.
  • 1. Checked cables
    2. Plug in all the cables again
    3. Verify soldering of pins for the Bonnet
Have gone through those items. As for the soldering it's possible that for my raspberry pi zero-w that I did not solder correctly thats why I have tried the bonnet plus matrix on my Raspberry Pi 4 as that came as a pre-soldered unit.

Still no success on getting this product to work correctly. Any suggestions?

FYI: if you're wondering why the bottom half of each image is showing yellow I have no clue. I updated one of the demos to turn every pixel to 255,255,255 (White).
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Re: 64x32 RGB LED Matrix Not working

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Can post a few more photos with ambient lighting showing all the connections on the back of the panel.

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Re: 64x32 RGB LED Matrix Not working

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Per your request I have attached pictures of the back of the matrix. Further, I have included pictures of the bonnet if you need that as well.
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Re: 64x32 RGB LED Matrix Not working

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Thanks for the photos. That all looks fine.

Let's go back to the Pi4 again to rule out anything with the Pi Zero W header pin soldering.

Try the Pi4 setup again and try swapping the ribbon cable, since you bought a spare, and see if that changes anything.

Also, on the Pi4, you will likely need to add some slow down:
https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-rgb ... 2982010-30
For Raspberry Pi 3 use a slowdown of 1 to start (use higher values if image still flickers). For Raspberry Pi 4, use a slowdown of 4. Older Pi models might work with 0, try it.

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adafruit_support_carter wrote:Thanks for the photos. That all looks fine.

Let's go back to the Pi4 again to rule out anything with the Pi Zero W header pin soldering.

Try the Pi4 setup again and try swapping the ribbon cable, since you bought a spare, and see if that changes anything.

Also, on the Pi4, you will likely need to add some slow down:
https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-rgb ... 2982010-30
For Raspberry Pi 3 use a slowdown of 1 to start (use higher values if image still flickers). For Raspberry Pi 4, use a slowdown of 4. Older Pi models might work with 0, try it.

Here is all the pictures you have requested with the Raspberry Pi 4 and the extra ribbon cable. Also, the one with the matrix showing all the colors I ran the following demo and with all the options listed here: sudo ./demo -D3 --led-rows=32 --led-cols=64 --led-slowdown-gpio=0
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Re: 64x32 RGB LED Matrix Not working

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One more thing I have forgotten to mention. If you're at Adafruit I wouldn't mind shipping the matrix to you so you can run all the tests you need/want. If you need a raspberry pi too to run some tests I can let you borrow mine.

Let me know. (Will pay for shipping. Sometimes I feel like a kid I want to "play/test" this product, but all I have been doing lately is veryfiying what's going on with this product.)

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Thanks for the offer to return. But we typically just replace these once we can determine it's the actual matrix and not something else.

Did you try with non-zero slowdown values?

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sudo ./demo -D3 --led-rows=32 --led-cols=64 --led-slowdown-gpio=0

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adafruit_support_carter wrote:Thanks for the offer to return. But we typically just replace these once we can determine it's the actual matrix and not something else.

Did you try with non-zero slowdown values?

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sudo ./demo -D3 --led-rows=32 --led-cols=64 --led-slowdown-gpio=0
To answer your question yes I have and am still getting the same results.

I didn't mean "return" I meant if you want to continue diagnosising the issue I would be more than happy to ship the product to you so you can further your investigation. If you think it's fine I'll pay the shipping back. If there is indeed something wrong we can discuss options then.

What do you think?

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Re: 64x32 RGB LED Matrix Not working

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In your photos above, it looks like the slow-down had an affect on the display. What was the highest value you tried?

Also, did you try swapping ribbon cables? No other changes, just re-run same command line example with both ribbon cables. No difference between ribbon cables?

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Re: 64x32 RGB LED Matrix Not working

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I re-ran all the tests using the Raspberry Pi 4. See attached images. Will post separately each image plus its command.

Gray Cable (The cable that came with Matrix)

sudo ./demo -D3 --led-rows=32 --led-cols=64 --led-slowdown-gpio=0
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Raspberry Pi 4. Gray Cable (The cable that came with Matrix)

sudo ./demo -D3 --led-rows=32 --led-cols=64 --led-slowdown-gpio=1
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Raspberry Pi 4. Gray Cable (The cable that came with Matrix)

sudo ./demo -D3 --led-rows=32 --led-cols=64 --led-slowdown-gpio=2
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Raspberry Pi 4. Gray Cable (The cable that came with Matrix)

sudo ./demo -D3 --led-rows=32 --led-cols=64 --led-slowdown-gpio=3
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Raspberry Pi 4. Gray Cable (The cable that came with Matrix)

sudo ./demo -D3 --led-rows=32 --led-cols=64 --led-slowdown-gpio=4
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Raspberry Pi 4. Gray Cable (The cable that came with Matrix)

sudo ./demo -D3 --led-rows=32 --led-cols=64 --led-slowdown-gpio=5
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