# Maker and Rasbery pi & Jetson nano GPIO access **URL:** \ **Category:** Maker\ **Created:** [July 3, 2020, 2:43pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/maker-and-rasbery-pi-jetson-nano-gpio-access/36344 "2020-07-03T14:43:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![joev](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b4bc9f/32.png) [@joev](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/joev)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2020, 2:43pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/maker-and-rasbery-pi-jetson-nano-gpio-access/36344/1 "2020-07-03T14:43:29Z")
What is the best way for maker to access The GPIO pins of devices like rasberry pi ---
**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2020, 3:19pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/maker-and-rasbery-pi-jetson-nano-gpio-access/36344/2 "2020-07-03T15:19:22Z")
I recommend running the [pigpiod](https://github.com/joan2937/pigpio) 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. ---
**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2020, 4:27pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/maker-and-rasbery-pi-jetson-nano-gpio-access/36344/3 "2020-07-03T16:27:12Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2020, 7:46pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/maker-and-rasbery-pi-jetson-nano-gpio-access/36344/4 "2020-07-03T19:46:00Z")
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. (: ---
**Author:** ![joev](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b4bc9f/32.png) [@joev](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/joev)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2020, 2:42pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/maker-and-rasbery-pi-jetson-nano-gpio-access/36344/5 "2020-07-06T14:42:16Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2020, 2:51pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/maker-and-rasbery-pi-jetson-nano-gpio-access/36344/6 "2020-07-06T14:51:03Z")
> [@joev](#): > > can a python GPIO library be used with ignition maker. Almost certainly not, as GPIO access from python is likely via a C DLL python extension. > [@joev](#): > > Does the GPIO used with ignition maker have to be in a jython or jave library. Yes, unless there is filesystem or socket access available. > [@joev](#): > > Can the maker GPIO library be executed by associating a script to something like a button. Probably not, except for filesystem or socket access. > [@joev](#): > > Are there any examples I can look at that show ignition using the GPIO pins. Not that I know of.