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Questions tagged [sense-hat]

The sense hat "is an add-on board for Raspberry Pi, made especially for the Astro Pi mission" which went to the International Space Station in December 2015 and is commercially available.

For further information see the Raspberry Pi Foundation's product page:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/sense-hat/

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Why does the Sense Hat / Astro Pi show the wrong temperature and humidity?

I recently bought the sense-hat, previously called astro-pi. Unfortunately the temperature shows 28 to 31 degrees Celsius from both temperature sensors on the board. They often show around 30 degrees right from the start when the raspberry pi boots,…
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Pi 4B Won't boot without HDMI cable plugged to Monitor

I am a beginner with Pi. I got a Pi4 with 4GB ram and Rasbian Full Desktop installed, SenseHAT attached as well. I did the wpa_wifi config file and it works fine, will connect to WIFI with Monitor attached. When I try to boot Pi4 without HDMI…
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Which GPIO header does the Sense HAT use?

I have been playing around with my Sense HAT, and I have bent 2 pins in the GPIO Header My plan is to replace the GPIO Header (I have removed it without desoldering) Is this a sensible idea? If it is, please provide me with a link (I live in the…
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Misconnected Sense HAT, now won't respond

I managed to misconnect my Sense HAT so that pin 1 on the Raspberry Pi got connected to pin 3 on the HAT, pin 2 to pin 4 and so on; that is to say, the HAT was inserted one pin off in the direction of pin 1. Then, after reconnecting the HAT the…
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Using GPIO on the Pi Sense Hat

I Have Raspberry Pi 3 Model B and to that I attached Pi Sense hat. I am wondering that can I use the header connections from the Pi Sense hat (as all 40 pins from Raspberry Pi board has been used by Pi Sense hat) for connecting other components? if…
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pi zero audio output with sense hat

I have asked this question on raspberry pi forum but no response. I am trying to make a web radio alarm with display and control using a sense hat. I got the radio working first on an old RPi A using mpc and the 3.5mm jack. When I added the sense…
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Attaching Sense HAT causes pi to freeze

I have a new Raspberry Pi 4 and Sense HAT. I've installed Raspian Buster installed via SD-card and managed to boot headless with ethernet cable connected. Power is from a USB-C cable plugged into a wall outlet. So far so good. However, as soon as I…
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Using I2C with the SenseHat

I'm working on a project that involves getting data from a SenseHat and transferring it via I2C to a arduino. I have managed to get the RPI and Arduino communicate without the sensehat but as soon as it goes on it does not work. I know that the…
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Raspberry Pi 3B SenseHat Not Detected

Ordered a Raspberry Pi 3B and sensehat a couple of days ago, they've arrived and I have set it all up as per the instructions. I've run sudo apt-get update,sudo apt-get upgrade -y and sudo reboot but then upon trying to run the example code: from…
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Sense HAT not working on RPi 3 correctly with official power supply

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…
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Raspberry pi HAT device-tree

I'm currently developping a Raspberry pi HAT. The Raspberry pi HAT must contain a EEPROM with several information in it. This information will be read at boot time in order to configure the Raspberry pi (GPIO port direction, name of the card, vendor…
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Raspberry pi HAT id Vendor id Product origin

I'm currently developing a Raspberry pi HAT which I will eventually sell in the future. According to the official documentation the EEPROM memory of the HAT must contain several information. Two of this information are the Vendor Id and the Product…
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Shutdown Raspberry Pi 2 with SenseHAT via Python script?

I have a headless Pi running Raspbian with the Sense HAT attached on top. A portable micro USB charger is attached to the outside of the casing, in order to make the Pi handheld. My classes are currently trying to put together a game where, as one…
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Sense Hat with Ubuntu

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…
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Sense HAT LED matrix displays incorrectly

When I try to light up one pixel at a time, the whole column lights up. This happens no matter what color I set it to. The rainbow when the pi boots up is also distorted since the columns are lighting up. Is this a problem I could fix, or is my…
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