Toggle on/off with a push button (WiiMote)

Question

I want to make a on/off signal with only a push button, actually its for my WiiMote but I don't think that that makes a difference. I want a led to turn it on and off.

I was thinking about a counter in Python, state 1 is signal ON and state 2 is reset to 0 (0 would be OFF). I have seen other posts about this and tried them, but none of them work:(

This is what I tried.

while True:
  if (GPIO.input(11) == 1):
    if (status == 0):
      GPIO.output(22, 0)
      status = 1

    if (status == 1):
      GPIO.output(22, 1)
      status = 0

And:

import RPi.GPIO as GPIO

GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BOARD)

GPIO.setup(22, GPIO.OUT) # LED
GPIO.setup(11, GPIO.IN) # Button

def toggleLEDcallback(channel):
    if (GPIO.input(22) == True):
        GPIO.output(22, False)
    else:
        GPIO.output(22, True)

while True:
    ...
    # do some other stuff
    ...
GPIO.cleanup()

I tried also with 2 transistors but that didn't work either. Any other hardware Solutions?

I hope one of you would like to help me building my robot!!

Below I paste a photo of my robot, for in case you where wondering how it looks like;)

Thanks!

Answer 1

If I press that button, the led is going ON. If I release that button, it stays on. But if I press it again, it will go off.

That's what I would expect looking at your first example:

if (GPIO.input(11) == 1):
      [...]

That condition is based on the GPIO's state being 1; there is no corresponding condition for when it is 0. So that code will only respond to that -- if 1 means the button is depressed (button circuits can done either way), then this code only responds to when the button is pressed down, not when it is released.

You then toggle based on the last change you made to (what I presume is) an internal variable, state. Everytime you press the button, this will alternate. But releasing the button does nothing.

Answer 2

import RPi.GPIO as GPIO
import time

GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BCM)

GPIO.setup(23, GPIO.IN, pull_up_down=GPIO.PUD_UP)#Button to GPIO23
GPIO.setup(24, GPIO.OUT)  #LED to GPIO24


try:
    times = 0
    debounce = 0.4
    state = True
    previous = False
    while True:
         reading = GPIO.input(23)
         if reading == False and previous == False and time.time()-times > debounce:
             if state == True:    
                 state = False
             else: 
                 state = True
             times = time.time()
         GPIO.output(24, state)
         previous = reading

             #print (button_state)
except:
    GPIO.cleanup()