RPIO 0.1.7

An extension of RPi.GPIO to easily use interrupts on the Raspberry Pi

RPIO extends RPi.GPIO with easy interrupt handling.

Interrupts are used to receive notifications from the kernel when GPIO state changes occur. Advantages include minimized cpu consumption, very fast notification times, and the ability to trigger on specific edge transitions (‘rising|falling|both’). This is an example of how to use RPIO:

import logging
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)
import RPIO

def do_something(gpio_id, value):
    print("New value for GPIO %s: %s" % (gpio_id, value))

RPIO.add_interrupt_callback(17, do_something, edge='rising')
RPIO.add_interrupt_callback(18, do_something, edge='falling')
RPIO.add_interrupt_callback(19, do_something, edge='both')
RPIO.wait_for_interrupts()

If you want to receive a callback inside a Thread (which won’t block anything else on the system), set threaded_callback to True when adding an interrupt- callback. Here is an example:

RPIO.add_interrupt_callback(17, do_something, edge='rising',
        threaded_callback=True)

Make sure to double-check the value returned from the interrupt, since it is not necessarily corresponding to the edge (eg. 0 may come in as value, even if edge=”rising”). To remove all callbacks from a certain gpio pin, use RPIO.del_interrupt_callback(gpio_id). To stop the wait_for_interrupts() loop you can either set RPIO.is_waiting_for_interrupts to False, or call RPIO.stop_waiting_for_interrupts().

If an interrupt occurs while your callback function does something blocking (like time.sleep() outside a thread), events will not arrive until you release the block. Only one process can receive interrupts for a specific GPIO pin, since the read on /sys/class/gpio/gpio<N>/value destroys the value for subsequent reads. RPIO uses epoll to receive interrupts from the kernel.

RPi.GPIO

You can use all of RPi.GPIO’s functionality through RPIO. Note that RPIO uses GPIO.BCM pin numbering by default

import RPIO

# set up GPIO output channel
RPIO.setup(17, RPIO.OUT)

# set gpio 17 to high
RPIO.output(17, RPIO.HIGH)

# set up output channel with an initial state
RPIO.setup(18, RPIO.OUT, initial=RPIO.LOW)

# set up input channel with pull-up control
#   (pull_up_down be PUD_OFF, PUD_UP or PUD_DOWN, default PUD_OFF)
RPIO.setup(19, RPIO.IN, pull_up_down=RPIO.PUD_UP)

# read input from gpio 19
input_value = RPIO.input(19)

# set up rising edge detection (EXPERIMENTAL)
set_rising_event(19)

# check for an event (EXPERIMENTAL)
if RPIO.event_detected(19):
    print('Rising edge detected!')

# set up falling edge detection (EXPERIMENTAL)
RPIO.set_rising_event(19, enable=False)  # disable rising edge detection (as set above)
RPIO.set_falling_event(19)

# set up high detection (EXPERIMENTAL)
RPIO.set_falling_event(19, enable=False)  # disable falling edge detection (as set above)
RPIO.set_high_event(19)

# set up low detection (EXPERIMENTAL)
RPIO.set_high_event(19, enable=False)  # disable high detection (as set above)
RPIO.set_low_event(19)

# to change to BCM RPIO numbering
RPIO.setmode(RPIO.BCM)

# to reset every channel that has been set up by this program to INPUT with no pullup/pulldown and no event detection
RPIO.cleanup()

Links

• https://github.com/metachris/raspberrypi-utils
• http://pypi.python.org/pypi/RPi.GPIO
• http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/gpio.txt

Feedback

Chris Hager (<[e-mail]>)

License

RPIO is free software, released under the MIT license.

Copyright (c) 2013 Chris Hager <[e-mail]>

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