Hello !

I’ve been trying for the past few days to make the Banana Pi M3 work with hzeller/rpi-rgb-led-matrix LED Library. But it doesn’t.

 

I’ve tried with Jessie:

Linux bpi-iot-ros-ai 3.4.39-BPI-M3-Kernel
PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie)"
NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="8"
VERSION="8 (jessie)"
ID=raspbian
ID_LIKE=debian

then I’ve tried with armbian:

Linux bananapim3 4.19.38-sunxi
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="9"
VERSION="9 (stretch)"
ID=debian

No luck. The project works perfectly fine with Raspberry Pi Zero:

Linux raspberrypi 4.19.42+
PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)"
NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="9"
VERSION="9 (stretch)"
ID=raspbian
ID_LIKE=debian

I’ve followed the troubleshooting guide from the library.

 

Is there somebody who made it work ?

 

I really need it for a project and I can’t just fix this damned board. I will try and get other boards.

 

More info: https://github.com/hzeller/rpi-rgb-led-matrix/issues/834

The Banana Pi M3 has a totally different SoC / CPU and GPIO register layout to the Raspberry Pi's. You can't use that library with the Banana Pi M3, the RPI library is coded specifically for the SoCs on the RPi's.