GPIO Display an Buttons dont work

Question

i bought a pi 2 B last week with a ready to use 16x2 Display + Keyboard wich i pluged in the gpio pins. It looks exactly like this picture: When i start the pi, the background display lights up like discribed in the manual here. I tried to use the display or the buttons serveral times with the example code in the manual and others, and i think the gpio pins dont work. Here is my script just to check the input of the buttons. Because its possible that i use the wrong pins, the code checks each of the 26 pins connected. I hold down every button many times, but the script doesnt recieve any change of the pin inputs. Here is my code:

import time 
import RPi.GPIO as GPIO
INPUTS = [0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
def InitIO():
    GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BCM)
    GPIO.setwarnings(False)
    for x in range(1,27):
        print x 
        GPIO.setup(x, GPIO.IN, pull_up_down=GPIO.PUD_UP)
        INPUTS[x]=GPIO.input(x)

print "Pi button test program starting"
InitIO()
print "Standart pin input : "
print INPUTS
while (True):
    for x in range (1,27):
        if INPUTS[x] != GPIO.input(x):
        print "PIN changed : ",x
    time.sleep(1)

I tried the Display with some other code, and it doesnt work too. What am I doing wrong ? I execute the script with sudo python test.py Is the Display and the Keyboard broken ? :(

Answer 1

I suggest the first thing to do is check to see if the GPIO are still working.

Remove the screen.

Then run either my gpiotest (requires pigpio) or wiringPi's pintest (requires wiringPi).

Answer 2

Pin numbering should be defined explicitly, not just 1,2,etc. Also 0 & 1 does not exists on header. For BCM numbering convention these are:

# ports numbers for BCM mode
# caution: 2 & 3 are used for I2C, omit (delete) these if I2C is used for something
# caution: 13 & 14 are used for UART, omit (delete) these if UART is used for something
PORTS = [2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27]

Then you should use something like

for i, port in enumerate(PORTS):
    # setup port direction & internal pull-up
    GPIO.setup(port, GPIO.IN, pull_up_down=GPIO.PUD_UP)
    # setup interrupt movement sense
    GPIO.add_event_detect(port, GPIO.FALLING)

Take a look at my example here, it is a fully working generic example (shown there with three input pins used, which can be expanded on purpose).

Also you should limit the inputs only to those effectively used by switches, it makes no sense to configure and lock them all as GPI input, especially if some of them are to be used (for example) in output mode to control the LCD display (BTW, how is this one connected ?)