Is Joan's pigpio rotary Encoder C library callable from python ctypes?

Question

I'm using Python class Rotary Encoder to implement a Position PI on a stepper motor and using this encoder H6BM-1000-500-IE-S-H

The code is working quite well, however I'm getting an error of ~5mm when I run large distances. My guess is that I'm missing interrupts because of speed, however my whole code is on Python. I wanted to know if I could use this C code via ctypes to wrap it to Python. I'm new to this Python module (ctypes) and don't use C at all. If it is possible, how should I compile it in order to use it on Python?

It doesn't have to be exclusively the C code mentioned above, but preferably pigpio code.

It can also be this C code for Rotary Encoder.

Answer 1

I use the roatary_encooder driver. https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/input/rotary-encoder.txt

It has device tree bindings here: http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/input/rotary-encoder.txt

My dts(device tree source) is:

/*
 * wheelhat-overlay.dts
 */

/dts-v1/;
/plugin/;

/ {
    compatible = "brcm,bcm2835", "brcm,bcm2708", "brcm,bcm2709";

    fragment@0 {
        target-path = "/soc/gpio";
        __overlay__ {
            wheel_pins: wheel_pins {
                brcm,pins = <13 27>;
                brcm,function = <0>;
                brcm,pull = <2>;
            };
        };
    };

    fragment@1 {
        target-path = "/soc";
        __overlay__ {
            wheel: wheel {
                compatible = "rotary-encoder";
                #address-cells = <1>;
                #size-cells = <0>;
                pinctrl-names = "default";
                pinctrl-0 = <&wheel_pins>;
                gpios = <&gpio 13 1>, <&gpio 27 1>; 
                linux,axis = <0>; /* REL_X */
                rotary-encoder,relative-axis;
            };
        };
    };
    __overrides__ {
        relative_axis =  <&wheel>,"rotary-encoder,relative-axis";
        linux_axis =  <&wheel>,"linux,axis";
        rollover =  <&wheel>,"rotary-encoder,rollover";
        half-period =  <&wheel>,"rotary-encoder,half-period";
        steps =  <&wheel>,"rotary-encoder,steps";
    };
};

The first fragment makes the pins have an input function with a pull-up. The rest is configuration and names exported to /boot/config.txt. You compile the DTS file and put it in /boot/overlays. The driver can do absolute x axis so you do not need to worry about losing interrupts. You need a Python event handler to catch x axis changes.