BBB: GPIO signal won't stay high

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So I have a BeagleBone Black board (Debian distro), and I want to be able to set some GPIO pin from a lowvalue to a high value.

For achieving this I’m using the BlackLib [1] library (a C++ library that offers general access to all beaglebone’s pins).

That library haves a class called BlackGPIO that offers the functionality that I want.

BlackLib::BlackGPIO NSLP_pin(BlackLib::GPIO_61, BlackLib::output, BlackLib::SecureMode);

auto NSLP_pinMode = NSLP_pin.getValue();

NSLP_pin.setValue(BlackLib::high);

I expect that this lines of code will set the signal from a low value to a high one (the signal is low by default).

The problem is that the signal goes high only for about ~10ms (measured on a scope), and after that it goes low again.

What I do wrong?

How can I set the some GPIO pin at a certain value, and remain like that until I change it?

[1] link.

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Your asking in the wrong place. You should be asking the maintainer of the code you’re using, not here. I can tell you that wrapping the GPIO sysfs system would be trivial for even an aatuer C/C++ developer. Once you understood how sysfs applies to the gpio stuff.

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I do not have any code in C/C++ i can show you but i recently wrote a very simple Nodejs ( javascript ) wrapper library for much more than just gpio but here . . . if you can read Javascript, which you should if you’re using C++ . . .

“use strict”;
var fs = require(‘fs’);
var path = “/sys/class/gpio/gpio”;

exports.read = function(pin, file){
fs.access(path + pin + “/” + file, fs.F_OK, (err) => {
if(err){throw err;}
});

return fs.readFileSync(path + pin + “/” + file, ‘utf8’);
};

exports.write = function(pin, file, value){
fs.access(path + pin + “/” + file, fs.F_OK, (err) => {
if(err){throw err;}
});

fs.writeFileSync(path + pin + “/” + file, value, ‘utf8’);
};

exports.export_pin = function(pin){
var file ="/sys/class/gpio/export";

fs.writeFileSync(file, pin, ‘utf8’);
};

exports.unexport_pin = function(pin){
var file ="/sys/class/gpio/unexport";

fs.writeFileSync(file, pin, ‘utf8’);
};

Not very difficult is it ?