Maker and Rasbery pi & Jetson nano GPIO access

Maker
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What is the best way for maker to access The GPIO pins of devices like rasberry pi

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I recommend running the pigpiod daemon and connecting to its socket interface from a long-lived asynchronous thread. The client-side python module for that project looks jython-compatible, but you might want to optimize it. Python’s socket module is notoriously laggy in jython.

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This looks neat, I hadn’t seen this before.

I can no longer recommend using Pi4J / wiringpi libraries because they have been abandoned at this point, which is why we decided not to implement some kind of GPIO driver for maker edition.

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One of my clients recommended it when I ran into trouble with the baseline CPython RPi.GPIO module. I had initially rejected pigpio as too heavyweight, as it runs a daemon. He was delighted to prove me wrong. (:

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the jetson nano comes with a GPIO python library.

  1. can a python GPIO library be used with ignition maker.
  2. Does the GPIO used with ignition maker have to be in a jython or jave library.
  3. Can the maker GPIO library be executed by associating a script to something like a button.
    4.Are there any examples I can look at that show ignition using the GPIO pins.
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Almost certainly not, as GPIO access from python is likely via a C DLL python extension.

Yes, unless there is filesystem or socket access available.

Probably not, except for filesystem or socket access.

Not that I know of.