Can i use Robot hat with ubuntu server 24.04 lts

[mike22]

Installing Robot HAT v4 on Ubuntu

I have double checked the install.py file and i2samp.sh script and reviewed the breif notes I made at the time and I think just a few simple steps should successfully install a robot-HAT v4 on a Raspberry Pi 5 runnung Ubuntu 24.04

1) Clone robot hat repository to home directory (follow instructions on Sunfounder website)

1. cd ~/
   git clone -b v2.0 https://github.com/sunfounder/robot-hat.git
   cd robot-hat
   

• DO NOT run the instal.py file as it will fail
• Install required packages and setup manually as below

2) Install required packages from APT repository

• raspi-config (not bundled in Ubuntu 24.04)

• i2c-tools

• espeak

• libsdl2-dev

• libsdl2-mixer-dev

• portaudio19-dev

• sox

• sudo apt install raspi-config i2c-tools espeak libsdl2-dev libsdl2-mixer-
  dev portaudio19-dev sox
  

3) Install required python packages

• smbus2

• gpiozero

• pyaudio

• spidev

• pyserial (package not on apt. Use python3-serial instead)

• pillow (newest version python3-pil with ubuntu and is automatically selected instead

  by apt)

• pygame>=2.1.2 (was unable to install version 2.1.2 from apt. used python3-pygame

  instead which downloads v2.5.2-2 instead)

I installed each package system-wide using:

• sudo apt install python3-<PACKAGE_NAME>
  

If installing into a virtual environment, use pip instead

• python3 -m pip install <PACKAGE_NAME>
  

4) Enable I2C and SPI interfaces

• Open raspberry pi configuration tool by typing following into terminal

• sudo rasp-config
  

• Select option 3 - Interface options and enable I2C and SPI

5) Copy hardware dtoverlays to overlays directory

• Copy required harware overlays from within robot-hat directory to /boot/firmware/overlays/ directory

• cd robot-hat
  

• cp ./dtoverlays/* /boot/firmware/overlays/
  

• This will copy sunfounder-robothat5.dtbo and sunfounder-servohat+.dtbo to the directory

• Edit config.txtto apply these overlays at time of boot

• cd ~/
  sudo nano /boot/firmware/config.txt
  

• Add the following lines to config.txt after the [All]

• dtoverlay=sunfounder-robothat5
  dtoverlay=sunfounder-servohat+
  

• Exit with ctrl-X and Y to save changes

6) Reboot and try python programs in test folder

• NOTE: you MUST copy the robot_hat folder (robot_hat module) into the tests folder for the python testing programs to work

• Motor and servo demo files should now work

• Sound card setup and audio testing follows separately