Raspberry Pi Asked by Milliways on October 15, 2020
Is there documentation for RPi.GPIO
? I have searched the web and can’t find anything.
I know I can use pydoc
or help()
but this produces the following:-
wait_for_edge(...)
Wait for an edge. Returns the channel number or None on timeout.
channel - either board pin number or BCM number depending on which mode is set.
edge - RISING, FALLING or BOTH
[bouncetime] - time allowed between calls to allow for switchbounce
[timeout] - timeout in ms
This is OK, in as far as it goes, but doesn’t really explain.
I assume the function blocks until the interrupt, but this is not stated.
What are the limits/defaults for timeout?
I have the following code, which I start on boot. Pressing the button successfully shuts down, but I have noticed it also seems to shut down at other times.
I could add some code to verify the button push, or some circuitry to make it more robust, but though I would check the documentation first.
while True:
# set an interrupt on a falling edge and wait for it to happen
GPIO.wait_for_edge(INT, GPIO.FALLING)
subprocess.call(['poweroff'], shell=True,
stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
Edit 2016-01-03
I downloaded the source from SourceForge, which made things somewhat clearer, but the timeout
parameter seems to be missing in action.
The official documentation is http://sourceforge.net/p/raspberry-gpio-python/wiki/Examples/
It doesn't seem to have a traditional API style of documentation.
Correct answer by joan on October 15, 2020
I have finally found a Python library with documentation gpiozero
I recommend this to anyone attempting to manipulate GPIO with Python.
Just to clarify I also highly recommend the pigpio Python module which has more functionality.
Answered by Milliways on October 15, 2020
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