[Python] Using GPIO pin and neopixel Raspberry Pi 5, Failed to open PIO device (error -22)

I have switched from my Raspberry Pi 4 to Raspberry Pi 5 for computational power means for part of a project. I have encountered many errors trying to use NeoPixels on the pi5 (was working fine on the pi4), and none of the links on the internet have helped, so I will list the main things I have tried in search of an answer:

1. 
   Pi5Neo: https://pypi.org/project/Pi5Neo/ with example code. It was opening the SPI device but nothing was happening on the neopixels.
   
   
2. 
   The first AdaFruit solution: https://learn.adafruit.com/circuitpython-on-raspberrypi-linux/using-neopixels-on-the-pi-5. After updating firmware and installing Pi5 blinka, ls -l /dev/pio0 still produced no such file or directory'
   
   
3. 
   The second AdaFruit solution: https://learn.adafruit.com/circuitpython-neopixels-using-spi. No issues were raised in the terminal but nothing happened on the pixels. When I run ls -l /dev/spi* I get:
   

• crw-rw---- 1 root spi 153, 0 Mar 16 17:10 /dev/spidev0.0
• crw-rw---- 1 root spi 153, 1 Mar 16 17:10 /dev/spidev0.1
• crw-rw---- 1 root spi 153, 2 Mar 16 17:10 /dev/spidev10.0

Code used:

import time
import board
import neopixel_spi as neopixel

NUM_PIXELS = 512
PIXEL_ORDER = neopixel.GRB
COLORS = (0xFF0000, 0x00FF00, 0x0000FF)
DELAY = 0.05

spi = board.SPI()

pixels = neopixel.NeoPixel_SPI(
spi, NUM_PIXELS, pixel_order=PIXEL_ORDER, auto_write=False
)

while True:
for color in COLORS:
for i in range(NUM_PIXELS):
pixels = color
pixels.show()
time.sleep(DELAY)
pixels.fill(0)
'''
'''
import board
import neopixel_write
import digitalio

pin = digitalio.DigitalInOut(board.D18)
pin.direction = digitalio.Direction.OUTPUT
pixel_off = bytearray([0, 0, 0])
neopixel_write.neopixel_write(pin, pixel_off)

1. 
   Running using the neopixel blinka pi5 library: https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_Blinka_Raspberry_Pi5_Neopixel/. With the below sample code:
   
   import neopixel
   import time
   import math
   
   #FREQS
   b_freq = 0.4
   r_freq = 1.0
   y_freq = 0.5
   g_freq = 0.8
   
   hell = 0.2
   
   pixels = neopixel.NeoPixel(board.D18, 512)
   #gpio-589
   #SETUP
   ORDER = neopixel.RGB
   
   #FIRST LIGHTS
   pixels[135] = (hell*255,hell*255,hell*255)
   pixels[375] = (hell*255,hell*255,hell*255)

It came up with the error:

File "/home/comarocket/old_scripts/neos_setup.py", line 97, in <module>
neopixel_write.neopixel_write(pin, pixel_off)
File "/home/comarocket/newenv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/neopixel_write.py", line 49, in neopixel_write
return _neopixel.neopixel_write(gpio, buf)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
RuntimeError: Failed to open PIO device (error -22)


I understand based on this link Not able to access GPIO pins on my Raspberry Pi 5 that I perhaps should not be using board.D18 to address the GPIO18 but rather something including the number gpio-589, but board.__dict__ didn't show anything of the sort.


What to do?

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