hyperion flickering on xbian but not raspbmc

[mansp]

(24th Feb, 2015 06:27 AM)Davem Wrote:  

(23rd Feb, 2015 06:20 AM)mansp Wrote:  Hi

I have the RPi 2 and of course that gives me the flickering error, I previously used RPi B with an old xbian RC2 version installed. Then all worked as you have documented here. But since the newer kernel I have the flickering behaviour.

I mainly write here to say that I too have written to hyperion to try and make them aware of the problem, though I don't really understand what it is. I have seen a couple of people using openelec on RPi2 running hyperion with success so I assume that they might be on another kernel. If someone have new info or fix please write it here, will do the same if I find something.

M

I am using a RPi B 2 with the WS2801 led strip on latest Xbian (stable fully updated) with no problems. I have no issues with the flickering bug. I used the setup guide from the Hyperion wiki (only SPI is not backlisted anymore in Xbian, so you can skip this step).

This was very interesting =). Do you use some kind of level-shifter to reach 5 V for the spi? And could you please show me your config file? I have tried a lot of different settings and had kind of settled with the thought that it might be the gpio handling that CurlyMo talked about. I also saw that the blacklisting was gone, however I do get the leds to show the colours according to the frame but with the flickering.