11-20-2021, 09:33 AM
I agree it's likely more reliable running the Pi with just the lite OS, should be less that can go wrong. I'm pretty impressed with how reliable these Pi's are, with a good SD card it runs well.
For the pca9685, with my app it'll detect it and a popup will appear, select pca9685 and it'll add the pins to the configure ports page on the advance tab. In reef-pi you add a driver for the pca9685, then assign connectors and then they'll be available. You will need to solder one of those I2C address pads on the board so it has a different address, you can use i2cdetect to see what it was assigned for reef-pi.
For the pca9685, with my app it'll detect it and a popup will appear, select pca9685 and it'll add the pins to the configure ports page on the advance tab. In reef-pi you add a driver for the pca9685, then assign connectors and then they'll be available. You will need to solder one of those I2C address pads on the board so it has a different address, you can use i2cdetect to see what it was assigned for reef-pi.