Room for Improvement: GPIO

[thomaspfeiffer]

FriendlyElec,

i see some room for improvements in GPIO:

WiringPi (introduced here) is a pretty old version:

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gpio -v
gpio version: 2.20
Copyright (c) 2012-2014 Gordon Henderson

Compared to Raspbian:

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gpio -v
gpio version: 2.44
Copyright (c) 2012-2017 Gordon Henderson

This old version of WiringPi does not support events/interrupts:

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gpio wfi 7 rising
gpio: Unknown command: wfi.

There is a couple of issues with RPi.GPIO_NP as well:
[*] it runs with python2 only (see details)
[*] events seem to not work; my_callback is never called:

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io.add_event_detect(pin, io.RISING, callback=my_callback)

It would be great if you could provide us with some updates soon.

Thanks in advance, Thomas

[auto3000]

This has been discussed in this forum, please read viewtopic.php?f=47&t=872

About RPi.GPIO_NP, I did a release (not based on the official one) that fixes these known issues at https://github.com/auto3000/RPi.GPIO_NP. This release could be built for the desired python* installation.