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I am obviously new to Raspberry and Stack, but would be great if community can advice.

My setup is the following: - YwRobot 545043 power supply (controller) connected to the breadboard and to the Raspberry, which powers it (the controller) - the USB input from YwRobot is connected to LED lamps; once button on controller is switched on, LED are lighted up

What I want to do Connect the button on YwRobot to the Raspberry board somehow, so that when it is pressed, I receive input/output into the Raspberry

Use case is: Designing an alarm that through while loop will check current time, and when condition is met, it will turn the leds on; when button on controller or breadboard is pressed -- turns them off.

What I cannot figure: Is there a way to associate this YwRobots physical button with, say another button on breadboard that can send actual state of the buttoon back to Raspberry.

Essentially I need to link button 1 to Raspberry or to button 2

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Much appreciate any ideas!

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  • Here is a schema below .... no, it is not a schematic .... it is a picture of wires – jsotola Oct 26 '18 at 5:40
  • Indeed, sorry. The actual wiring is perhaps not that important, mostly to understand what I want to achieve – navuoo Oct 26 '18 at 14:52
  • As a last resort resort, you could, of course, cut the LED lamp's USB cord and wire the red and black wires within, through a transistor, to the pi's 5v power supply... Then you could read the button button using the GPIO pins and control the transistor using the GPIO pins. – scitronboy Oct 26 '18 at 23:51
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You could have a separate power supply for the raspberry pi and connect the 3.3V power to a GPIO. Then, you could have a python program read the GPIO to see whether the button (1) was pressed.

Like:

Power->Raspberry Pi<-YwRobot 545043 power supply

Or:

YwRobot 545043 power supply->Button 2->GPIO

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  • Thanks! The issue is I am not sure exactly how to wire Yw_Robot to the breadbboard itself. It has pins close to the button, but they don't seem to be configurable to read the input from the button – navuoo Oct 26 '18 at 14:56
  • On most power supplies like yours, button 1 is used for turning on or off the power supply. The green led indicates whether the power supply is on. – Unsigned_Arduino Oct 29 '18 at 0:18
  • Yes, it is, but the goal here is to connect the button on the power supply to the Raspberry, since I want to control USB output programatically. – navuoo Oct 30 '18 at 10:59
  • Yes so follow my post – Unsigned_Arduino Nov 5 '18 at 21:46

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