GPIO stands for General Purpose Input Output and can be used to receive and send digital signals to and from simple electronics from the Raspberry Pi.
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drive LED and switch on same GPIO?
It seems like I should be able to ~abuse~ use the input pullups on the Pi to drive an LED, and that means the input is open so I can also sense a switch for occasional use. I can't talk myself into or ...
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Connect RunCam to raspberry pi
Just recently I got RunCam micro swift 3 (https://www.runcam.com/download/MicroSwift3-Manual.pdf) for computer vision project. However, I am struggling to understand how can I connect it to Raspberry ...
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How to use DS3231 RTC module on Android Things?
I use Raspberry pi 3 model B on Android Things.
my situation https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51887326/when-boot-device-if-can-not-connect-to-the-network-how-to-set-current-time-on
so, I bought ...
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Clearing edge detect registers (GPEDS0/GPEDS1) crashes Raspbian Stretch
I've been working on a PHP library for Raspberry Pi for a few years now, and since (not sure specifically which) a version of Raspbian Stretch, the Pi becomes completely unresponsive when clearing the ...
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Is there a way to use interrupt-driven GPIO input through the sysfs interface without a race condition?
I want to use the GPIO pins to wait for a button-press without using a CPU spin loop. My preferred way of using the GPIO pins is via the sysfs interface at /sys/class/gpio, but it seems to me that ...
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Multiple TTL sensors on serial RX GPIO 10
Is it possible to read more than one TTL sensor on serial RX GPIO 10?
I know you can add multiple serial sensors on /dev/ttyUSBx
Does the same apply to /dev/ttyAMAx ?
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RPi.GPIO - Properly Wiring and Setting Up Pins for Button Inputs
Edit: Breadboard, schematic, and code updated.
I accidentally fried my Pi by shorting it out through the GPIO pins, so I figured it would be a good idea to ask for some help before trying my current ...
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How to cut the power on power pin 1 programmatically?
Is there a way to cut the power on power pin 1 on Raspberry Pi 3, using a command or force this on reboot?
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Raspberry Pi WiFi with GPIO Power
I am powering my RPI3 with 5V at the GPIO ports. The LED indicates that it is on, yet it does not connect to wifi automatically, or even power the wifi, as it does when I power it via micro USB. Is ...
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GPIO event handlers and inter-thread communication
I have a Python script using callback functions to react to GPIO events, as described here:
https://sourceforge.net/p/raspberry-gpio-python/wiki/Inputs/
The description states that Python runs the ...
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Control RaspberryPI 3 via Serial/GPIO
So I'm working on a bit of a little project with a PI for work.
I'm making the PI into a little portable NAS where i can connect it to a network and on boot, it will email me its IP Address (if it ...
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I think I accidentally shorted the 3v3 and 5v pins [duplicate]
I was just playing around with my Raspberry Pi's 3 B+ GPIO pins, trying to figure out how they work, and I tried measuring the voltage with my voltmeter. And then I think I accidentally shorted the ...
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what is causing my error 3 for sending SMS from GSM module
I have a Raspberry Pi 3 running Raspbian Stretch I've connected it to an Elemnt Engineerz Guild SIM900a GSM modem via the GPIO. I can't get it to send an SMS
I connected gnd and 5v to gnd and 5v ...
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Why my gpio input changes the internal resistance when running the python code? [closed]
I have a raspberry pi receiving inputs with a 300k resistance connected between the voltage input (12V) and the gpio. When my python code is not running the voltage at the gpio is 1.7v, but when I ...
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Safe GPIO configuration for powered-down RPi?
I have a RPi3 driving a robot and I've built a dual H-bridge circuit to run it. I have seperate fuses for the RPi and the driving circuit and I'm glad I do!
Trouble is, when the RPi is off, the H-...
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Read from special pins?
I'd like to use some special pins like 5 (scl) and 12 (pcm_clk)as regular pins to read from them. I made a circuit as shown here:
and setup all connected pins like this:
GPIO.setup(pin, GPIO.IN, ...
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Sending RPi data over network [duplicate]
I have 3 Pi's on a network that need to scan one GPIO on each, and if that GPIO changes, broadcast to the other two so they can trigger another GPIO as an output to trip a local relay. HELP??
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Change GPIO pins for official Raspberry Pi 7" touchscreen
I need to use different GPIO pins with the Raspberry Pi official 7" touchscreen. I'm already using pins 3, 4, 5 and 6 with a hat, and it would be a pain to change them. I've looked through several ...
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Problem counting pulses
I want to count pulses and find the frequency. Here is the picture of pulses from the oscilloscope:
Obviously, frequency is around 1/2.3 ms = 420 Hz.
First I tried this program:
import RPi.GPIO as ...
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How to restart the GPIO after shutdown() called
After I call the following Java code:
gpio.shutdown()
The GPIO turns off.
How can I restart it?
I need to restart it because of this problem. In the problem the light does not turn off with led.low(...
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Raspberry Pi Control GPIO by C# (Access to the path 'C:\sys\class\gpio\export' is denied.')
What is this error message mean and how to fix it?
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max7219 examples doesn't work
I'm following this link https://max7219.readthedocs.io/en/0.2.3/ to setup my MAX7219 8 x 32 rot Serial Dot Matrix Display Modul LED into my raspberry pi3.
I followed the setup and with pip list | ...
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Trimming down Stackable Header
As mentioned in my previous post, I'm intending to solder some HATs directly to the Pi. However, I find the pins on the default header too short, so I need to replace them with longer ones.
I have ...
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Unable to show string on 2x16 LCD display
connected 2x16 LCD display to raspberry pi 3.I followed above tutorial
https://www.rototron.info/lcd-display-tutorial-for-raspberry-pi/
I made connections as shown in the tutorial.Install adafruit ...
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I2C device address changing of MCP23017 I/O extender
When I connect all A0, A1 and A2 to ground, then my device address of the MCP23017 is 0x20 (constant).
But when I disconnect the A0 from ground, then the device address is switching between 20 and ...
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luma.core.error.DeviceNotFoundError: SPI device not found
I'm trying to setting up my new Dot Matrix MCU LED Display Module 8x32 with MAX7219 on my Raspberry Pi 3.
I followed all the steps here https://max7219.readthedocs.io/en/0.2.3/ and of course using ...
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DRV2605 + TCA9548A I2C Multiplexer gets sporadic “Remote I/O Error”
The setup is a raspberryPi driving two AdaFruit DRV2605s through an AdaFruit TCA i2c multiplexer and it all works correctly the bulk of the time. I adapted the sample Arduino code and by and large we'...
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Risk of damage soldering directly to GPIO
I am thinking of removing the headers on some HATS and soldering them directly to the Pi.
Is there a risk of damaging the pi if I overheat the pins or board?
What's the best way to remove the headers ...
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Imprecise result after bitwise operation on GPIO registers
I am using a Raspberry Pi(Model 1 B+) and an oscilloscope in order to program SPI with C.
I am doing this by using direct access to the GPIO register.
Like this:
https://elinux.org/...
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Multiple push buttons - Raspberry [closed]
What is the best way to implement an algorithm to read 6 push buttons, debounce them, and do something according to the button pressed? Interrupts or polling mode? I would appreciate any resource you ...
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Controlling multiple raspberry pi's
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I'm working on a ROV project and there are 3 Raspberry Pi, cameras sensors and motor drivers which are controlling from Raspi. I need to control them via my laptop and I don't have internet ...
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Monitor GPIO activity to debug possibly broken script
I recently picked up a b3+ and a nespi+ case. The case comes with a power and reset button and provides a script for the safe shutdown and for the most part has been driving me insane.
I've fixed the ...
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Controlling electromagnets in clock display
I have an electromechanical 7-segment clock display with each segment controlled by an electromagnet. A segment is 'on' depending on the polarity of the last pulse to its electromagnet.
Can anyone ...
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Execution interruption while holding a kernel spin lock
I want to toggle an GPIO pin with a certain accuracy. (i.e. latency about 1 us). I have a Raspberry Pi 3 model.
Therefore I wrote a simple test kernel module.
The toggling loop does basically this:
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Use Raspberry Pi GPIO to sync multiple video players. Possible?
Is it possible to use GPIO to sync multiple RasPi video players?
As shown in the picture below, I need to sync 16 RasPi video players. The master RasPi will trigger the video players (start, stop, ...
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Do I need a resistor for a 3v3 led? [duplicate]
Begginer question, if the output voltage of the raspberry pi is 3.3v and my led voltage is 3.3v, do I still need a resistor? As far as I understand, if the voltage is the same you don't need to add a ...
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Why does my raspberry pi zero w crashes when controlling a DC motor with an L9232D and a 9g Servo motor?
I use this simple circuit to control a DC motor with an L293D, and a 9g servo motor with a Raspberry PI Zero W:
I use the simple following code to test the circuit:
from time import sleep
import RPi....
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Rpi not reading data from Sense HAT due to missing frame buffer
I'm having trouble getting my RPi 3 to listen to a Sense HAT.
The Sense Hat is getting power and the RPI is aware of the Hat.
pi@BBLPi1:~ $ ls /dev/i2c*
/dev/i2c-1
pi@BBLPi1:~ $ i2cdetect -y 1
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Multiple Raspberry Pi zeros (no wifi) + touchscreen. Daisy-chained communication?
I'm trying to devise a solution that will connect multiple Raspberry Pi zeros together for communication between them. I'm using a touchscreen on each of them, so GPIO pins 1-24 are taken. Also, I'm ...
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RPi 3 B+ won't start after accidentally connected 3.3v gpio pin to 5v gpio pin [duplicate]
I guess everything is in the title. I wasn't trying to connect any pins. It sounds stupid but I was holding my keys and was just trying to put the usb power supply on the Pi and accidentally connected ...
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Change I2C Pins on Raspberry Pi
On a RPi 3, default SDA-I2C and SCL-I2C are assigned to pins 3 and 5 (same as GPIO02 and GPIO03).
Is possible to change to another pins? How can I do this?
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Crontab Unresponsive
I am trying to get my Raspberry Pi B+ to run a shell script everyday at the same time, and I am trying to use Crontab to do it. I run sudo crontab -e to access my Crontab programs, and added the entry ...
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GPIO Pins Stay Active
On my Raspberry Pi B+ I have a standard program to blink a LED. I run it using the terminal command python blinky.py, and when I do, the LED lights up, but does not blink, as it should. I then cancel ...
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Strange signals on GPIO 14 & GPIO 4 when ribbon cable is attached to GPIO
I'm using RP3B.
I'm using piscope, as I don't have an oscilloscope available.
After I boot my RP3B with nothing attached to the GPIO port, if I start pigpiod and piscope, I see all my GPIO with a ...
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No w1_slave on DS18B20 on Raspberry Pi 3 B+
In any of these cases the red status LED on the sensor lights up. The Sensor DS18B20 is connected to the Raspberry Pi 3 B+ to the 5v on the GPIO pins. Using the 3.3v pin makes the light of the sensor ...
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Python pigpio 'no permission to update GPIO'
I am trying to run the following code on my Raspberry:
import pigpio
import fileinput
pi = pigpio.pi()
### Define constants
pwm_range = 255
pwm_clock_div = 8
left_motor_dir_pin = 35
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Differences in GPIO between Raspberry Pi 3 B and 3 B+
Is there any difference in the GPIO layout between Raspberry Pi 3 B and 3 B+? If yes, please provide the differences.
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How fast can GPIO pins toggle?
I'm currently using Python's RPi.GPIO module to toggle some pins, and I want to know how quickly it can do this. I need the pins to be toggled on the schedule of a ~50 mhz FPGA clock, which I'm ...
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RFM69 Radio Transceiver: Arduino is not registering acknowledgement for transmission sent by Raspberry Pi
I am building a system in which an Arduino Uno with an RFM69 radio chip transmits data to a Raspberry Pi running a script in Python.
I am using the RFM69 library for both scripts:
Arduino: https:/...
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Using special pins as gpio
I would like to use I2C and SPI pins as a gpio on my raspberry pi zero w. To be more clear, BCM 3-5-7-11-13-14 pins on the link [1]. I want to disable I2C1, GPCLK0, SPI0, UART, PWM0. Is it possible ...
