Pironman 5 Mini

Accessories for Raspberry Pi and Arduino
1

The Pironman5 Mini has only one fan with it’s own LEDs. There are apparently no other LEDs inside the case.

The status display (stats & charts etc.) options pop-up has the same controls as the standard Pironman5 but not all these options are relevant or working for the Mini.

Options that have no noticeable effect:

  • RGB Enable
  • RGB Color
  • RGB Brightness
  • RGB Style
  • RGB Speed

Can changes to this dialog be made to either:

  1. have an actual effect on the Fan LED (the fan when enabled and running has a rotating rainbow effect at a single brightness level and rotation speed) or
  2. be removed from the options for the Mini to avoid confusion.

Thank you.

2

Pironman5 Mini have 4 RGB LEDs mounted on board. Take a look to jumper J9.

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3

I can see from that diagram, and from this page (Pironman 5 Mini HAT — SunFounder Pironman 5 documentation) that the LEDs exist and that there are two pins covered by a jumper. I’m unclear what to do next.

Are you suggesting that the Jumper needs to be removed or do I have to connect those two pins for the RGB of the Mini HAT to somewhere else? Do I have to enable anything else to get them working?

4

Jumper need to be connected. Have you install pironman5 software? Then control RGB with dashboard…

5

My issue was that SPI was not enabled. This related to another issue with the HA OS Data Disk being on a different block device from /boot and the Pironman5 setup tools don’t yet work with this setup.

Once dtparam=spi=on was set in /boot/config.txt and a couple of reboots later, the LEDs are now working.