Hello, im new to NodeRed. have trouble to get the node-red-node-pi-neopixel node working. It was working fine with Debian Bullseye, but there I got issues with my Serial HAT, so I had to upgrade to a more recent kernel/os. Im running: Debian Bookworm Lite 64Bit on an CM4 on a Tofu Board. Node-R…

I found the Issue: The code checks for the ": BCM" string in /proc/cpuinfo But the the CM4 Module with Debian Bookworm 64 Bit, does not show that information. As Hardware it shows a "Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 Rev 1.1" string. I created a merge request for the fix: …

Any chance anyone has looked at the CM5/RPi5 w/ Bookwork 64bit? I just updated node-red-node-pi-neopixel from v2.0.0 to v2.0.2 and while it wasn't yet working with v.2.0.0 now it is broke altogether and won't even allow the flow to run with v2.0.2? [Screenshot 2025-06-27 at 11.27.56 AM] Any idea…

I don't know about that particular node, but to investigate the problem go into your .node-red folder (assuming a conventional install) and run npm remove node-red-node-pi-neopixel npm install node-red-node-pi-neopixel If that shows errors then post the log here (text copy/paste please, not screen…

On second thoughts don't bother. If you look in the node-red startup log you may see [warn] [node-red-node-pi-neopixel/rpi-neopixels] SyntaxError: Unexpected token ')' (line:13) which indicates a problem with the node. One of the developers may see this, if not then submit an issue on the node's…

@Colin Thanks, I had already reverted to v2.0.1 after running into the issue but it's already been fixed with a v2.0.3 release :slight_smile:

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dceejay 27 June 2025 16:47 6

Apologies - extraneous ) now removed . v2.0.3

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