LED Example Crashes on Raspberry Pi 5 Due to Hardware Incompatibility

[aliaxam153]

Whenever I run the LED example from the Hobbyist toolkit on my Raspberry Pi 5, it crashes with a dialog box stating that DIO 7 does not exist. After researching on the Raspberry Pi forums, I discovered that the Raspberry Pi 5 has significant hardware changes. Therefore, I assume the toolkit hasn't been updated to support the Raspberry Pi 5. Can anyone help with this issue?

Here is a link to Raspberry Pi forum: Raspberry 5 issue that did not exist with Raspberry 4 - Raspberry Pi Forums

[Ken_S]

Yes, they've completely changed not just the DIO hardware in the RPi5 but also the driver-level interface that the LINX library uses.  It will need to be almost completely re-written to get it working on RPi 5.

For what it's worth, I did put in some changes [1] to make things work on RPi5 but the next raspbian image release broke it again, so it needs more work.

[1] https://github.com/LVMakerHub/LINX/commit/ad407b7511d7211c2308e21998e1a575e0ccfe62