VinzTech

I recently bought a brand new Raspberry Pi 4, and wanted to try Kodi on it. There is only one Kodi-distribution which has more or less decent support for RPi 4 at the moment, and that's LibreElec (although still Alpha). Since the RPi 4 is famously overheating and throttling without a fan or at least a heatsink, I got a PiMoroni Fan Shim. Nice piece of hardware, but their library cannot run on LibreElec, because they do not support installing python libraries through pip etc... On LibreElec, the whole rootfs is a read-only squashfs image. So there's no way you can install the Pimoroni python library on LibreElec, but I found an alternative: I found Phil Randal's blog at  http://www.philrandal.co.uk/blog/archives/2019/07/entry_214.html , where he described how to get at least the Fan portion of the Fan Shim working on LibreElec. I decided to build on that, and port the LED functionality to LibreElec as well, without the need for "pip install" or a