RPI package installation

[magnusbj]

Hi, thanks for a great repo and inspiring video!
I'm a fellow drummer, and I've been working on a similar project, and I wonder how you handled the installation of the repos for neopixel in the project. It's not mentioned in the tutorial or in the requirements.txt.

I've had some issues with this, but solved it by installing them with guide from https://learn.adafruit.com/neopixels-on-raspberry-pi/python-usage

The Neopixel package seems to have been updated with new commands for the port? I had to reqwrite some of the calls to get the new neopixel package to work

[keithmcmillan]

Hi Stephen

Many thanks for your two fantastic videos. My daughter is a drummer (she's 12 turning 13 towards the end of March). She had seen previous videos of light up drums and I was hoping to replicate your config - but I'm running into a problem that I think two others have described - that only the Snare drum lights up when hit. I've added debug prints and I can see that I'm getting the correct MIDI notes out, and I have matched the drum config to our setup.

Do you have any advice? Magnusbj above mentioned a different version of the library - I could try back porting to a version that you have, but it would be really useful to know which version you have working...

thanks again for the great work on this so far.

PS, if you had any notes on an acoustic kit, even if not complete, I'd be happy to look at them too. We have two kits at home, and was hoping to setup both, but based on your code. Was considering swapping out the MIDI input for a set of vibration sensors connected via the GPO pins.

--Keith

[mcorkum]

I am also seeing the issue with only the snare lighting up. Trying to solve.