What are some Good Python GPIO libraries for BBB

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Hello,
I am Revisiting the BeagleBone Black I haven’t used it in a long time. When I wrote python code I used the Adafruit _BBIO Library. .
Is it still good to use this even though it is not supported anymore.?
Do you still have to use python2 for the i2c bus ?
I was wondering what are some other GPIO Python libraries that people use. Any recommendations?
Not sure about this but is Micropython a possibility. I don not want to use circuit python as I have not like it as much as others mentioned.

Thank you for you responses!!

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Hello,

I found this lib. a while back. The fellow or group of persons that produced it also has a C lib.

In any route, here: https://github.com/vsergeev/python-periphery .

I have not personally tested this lib. yet but I hope to try it once I have no other options outside of pure Linux or Linux-languages, e.g. which I am completely terrible at for now.

Seth

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Here are some from a Google search.

Adafruit Blinka (CircuitPython)
https://circuitpython.org/blinka/beaglebone_black/

14 BeagleBone Python projects
https://beagleboard.org/p/projects/tags/python

PyGame examples on elinux.org
https://elinux.org/EBC_Exercise_33_pygame

Derek Molloy code examples from Exploring Beaglebone book:
https://github.com/derekmolloy/exploringBB

These should get you started.

Cheers,

Jon

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Find Python[2,3] examples at

https://users.freebasic-portal.de/tjf/Projekte/libpruio/doc/html/ChaExamples.html

Regards

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Hi @DTJF , do you have any more examples with libpruio lib for Python? Like usage with events handler with asyncio code etc?

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Sorry, Python is not my prefered programming language. And asynchronous code isn’t my prefered technique, since I loose control over the exact timing. I prefer to poll for an event, it’s much faster than an interrupt with all its overhead.

Anyhow, you can find an example for handling an event in function Pruio::mm_start(). It waits for the end of the ADC sequence by waiting for /dev/uio5 event. The interupt settings are in member structure Pruio::IntInit. In the example trigger.bas this function gets called synchonously, but when you call it in a thread you’ll end up with asynchonously event handling.

Regards

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