Raspberry Pi5 8Gb PWM WS2815 Support

[PidPix]

• I confirm that this is an issue rather than a question.

Bug report

When i try to configure the PWM WS2815 strip in my configuartion tab the LEDs dont make any light. I have some nanoleaf which works just fine. So no problem here. The log says this

2025-01-19T22:59:34.237Z [LEDDEVICE|Ambient] (ERROR) Device disabled, device 'ws281x' signals error: 'Failed to open. Error message: Hardware revision is not supported'

Iam on a Raspberry 5 8Gig.
I installed Pi OS light and used the autobinstall Script described in the installation sektion. Hyperbian didnt worked for me because it ends on a critical kernel issue

Steps to reproduce

Try PWM WS28xx on Pi5

What is expected?

Should worked fine i guess

What is actually happening?

No lights. Logs says following.
2025-01-19T22:59:34.237Z [LEDDEVICE|Ambient] (ERROR) Device disabled, device 'ws281x' signals error: 'Failed to open. Error message: Hardware revision is not supported'

System

Hyperion Server:

• Build: (HEAD detached at 121abce) (GitHub-2c864f1/121abce-1736962753)
• Build time: Jan 16 2025 01:15:46
• Git Remote: https://github.com/hyperion-project/hyperion.ng
• Version: 2.0.17-beta.2+nightly20250116121abce408153b6944ee593b30b02d343663f3cb
• UI Lang: de (BrowserLang: de-DE)
• UI Access: default
• Avail Screen Cap.: dispmanx,framebuffer,qt
• Avail Video Cap.: v4l2
• Avail Audio Cap.: audio
• Avail Services: boblight,cec,effectengine,forwarder,flatbuffer,protobuffer,mDNS,SSDP,borderdetection
• Config database: /root/.hyperion/db/hyperion.db
• Database: read/write
• Mode: Non-GUI

Hyperion Server OS:

• Distribution: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
• Architecture: arm64
• CPU Type: Raspberry Pi 5 Model B Rev 1.1
• CPU Revision: d04171
• Kernel: linux (6.6.51+rpt-rpi-2712 (WS: 64))
• Root/Admin: true
• Qt Version: 6.4.2
• Python Version: 3.11.2
• Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/132.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

[Lord-Grey]

Hi @PidPix

I can follow your frustration, but this is not an Hyperion issue.
For PWM connectivity, Hyperion makes use of an external library which is currently not supporting rpi5 yet.

You might have a look at this issue jgarff/rpi_ws281x#528

Referred code you find in the following branch: https://github.com/jgarff/rpi_ws281x/tree/pi5
With that you could build hyperion yourself.