Pimoroni HATs not supported for Arch-Linux?

[Aadniz]

Hi.

After struggling to setup i3 tiling manager for Raspbian, I was recommended by someone over at Reddit to switch to Arch-Linux.
I thought this was a good idea as I'm very familiar with Arch.

But when it came to the installation of the 5 HATs I'm using, I get a message saying:

Your operating system is not supported, sorry!

Is it possible to bypass this?

What is the reason it is not supported?

[Gadgetoid]

A few reasons:

1. Time - there's not enough of it to support/test/debug installers on more than one OS
2. Experience - I have limited experience in Arch, I've been using debian-like systems for ~20 years
3. Need - It's assumed anyone making the choice to switch to Arch probably doesn't need our one-line installer scripts anyway. In most cases you can just sudo pip install productname

In most cases the Python libraries will work fine, though. Try:

pip install unicornhathd

And git clone this repository for the examples.

[Aadniz]

Thank you! It worked!!

EDIT

... It only worked for unicornHD so far. Having issues with speakerPhat and fourletterphat

[Gadgetoid]

Speaker pHAT I’m not surprised by since it requires proper configuration of the i2s audio output and ALSA. FourLetter pHAT I’m surprised by since it’s just an i2c device.

[Aadniz]

Sorry for late response. I'm waiting for some new parts for the "computer"

I get this error when trying to run FourLetter pHAT:

However... I'm thinking about switching back to Raspbian, and do a fresh installation.