I have a Raspberry Pi 3 model B. I was using a 5.25V 2A power supply that I used for my previous Pi 2 (which made the red light flash because it didn't provide enough power) until last week, when the SD card got corrupted. At this point I bought a new power supply, the official one to be precise, which is 5.1V 2.5A. The red light flashing has stopped, which is good, although I have a very annoying usb 1-1-port2: over-current change message.
Anyway, here's my problem. If I use the old adapter, my Sense HAT seems to work perfectly: it displays the rainbow, turns off after a while and I'm able to control the LEDs with no problem. However, if I use the new one, a number of things happen:
- The rainbow does not disappear. A few of the pixels do, though, which is strange.
- If I clear the LED matrix (using the
clear()function from thesense_hatPython module), a few pixels are left red. Clearing multiple times seems to actually clear everything. - The
get_pixelsfunction incorrectly reports that every pixel is black. - Anything else I do with the matrix seems to start by not working and begins to work after some time (a few updates): Printing rainbows, single pixels, clearing... anything.
I really don't understand anything. The only difference is the power supply, everything else is the same: same RPi, same SD, same Sense HAT, same code. Could the difference in voltage/current be the cause? If so, is there any way I can fix it?
