Servo control issue

Question

I have written a small program that controls two servos: to start the recording process one servo opens a shutter (servo1), then the second one lifts a sky camera out of a housing (servo2). To stop the recording process, the described process has to be completed in the reverse direction.

My issue with code is, that if I only run open_s or close_s, it works fine, but if I run both, the second function does not run correctly (servo1 no longer closes the shutter), but there's also no error message. Any idea why this could be?

Many thanks for any hints!

import RPi.GPIO as GPIO
import time

GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BCM)
#set up servos
GPIO.setup(12,GPIO.OUT)
servo1 = GPIO.PWM(12,50)

GPIO.setup(13,GPIO.OUT)
servo2 = GPIO.PWM(13,50)

def open_s():
    #run servos
    servo1.start(0)
    servo2.start(0)

    servo1.ChangeDutyCycle(6.1)
    time.sleep(2)
    servo1.stop()

    servo2.ChangeDutyCycle(6.5)
    time.sleep(2)

def close_s():
    servo1.start(0)
    servo2.start(0)

    servo2.ChangeDutyCycle(5.5)
    time.sleep(2)
    servo2.stop()

    servo1.ChangeDutyCycle(3.4)
    time.sleep(2)
    servo1.stop()

open_s()
close_s() #<- This function no longer runs servo1, when I run it in combination with open_s()

GPIO.cleanup()

Answer 1

I have no idea why the code does not work. Perhaps look through the issues to see if it is a known problem.

Perhaps use pigpio.

sudo pigpiod # start daemon

pigs s 12 1220 mils 2000 s 13 1300 # open

pigs s 13 1100 mils 2000 s 12 680  # close