b'brcm,bcm2837' in compat or \
        b'brcm,bcm2838' in compat:
         board_reqs = ['RPi.GPIO', 'rpi_ws281x>=4.0.0']
+elif os.environ.get('GITHUB_TOKEN') is None and os.environ.get('GITHUB_ACTION') is None:
+    board_reqs = ['hidapi']
 
 setup(
     name='Adafruit-Blinka',
         "Adafruit-PlatformDetect",
         "Adafruit-PureIO",
         "spidev>=3.4; sys_platform=='linux'",
-        "sysv_ipc; platform_system != 'Windows'"
+        "sysv_ipc; platform_system != 'Windows'",
+        "pyftdi>=0.30.0"
     ] + board_reqs,
     license='MIT',
     classifiers=[