I was wondering if it is possible to use the sense hat on ubuntu. I recently bought a pi 8gb and found out that raspian is only 32 bit thus would not allow me to use all 8gb of ram so I switched to a ubuntu build for the pi that is 64 bit but have found that the sense hat package isn't there. I've tried searching around and haven't found much. Any ideas?
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Note as addition to the below, you can now download the packages from the emulators author documented here
sudo add-apt-repository ppa://waveform/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install python-sense-emu python3-sense-emu sense-emu-tools
Please take care using any repository if you do not know the author!
Sorry this is a series of links but I do not know a simple answer for this device.
The sense hat is just a series of displays, switches and sensors nicely packaged on one board:
- 8 × 8 RGB LED matrix
- a five – button joystick
- Gyroscope
- Accelerometer
- Magnetometer
- Temperature
- Barometric pressure
- Humidity
with a Python library to wrap all the data behind an easy to use interface. The ports used by this hat can be seen here in my old answer.
The first thing I would try is the Ubuntu equivalent of sudo apt install sense-hat to see if that gets you the Python library.
If that library is not available then details on installing it can be found on GitHub issue #79 here
It is important to follow that thread carefully ESPECIALLY the blacklist details on this thread.
I would actually recommend the 64-Bit version of Raspberry Pi OS or stick with the hybrid 64-bit kernel / 32-user space a little longer as these are better supported by the RPT/RPF software than other operating systems.