pifacedigitalio

The PiFace Digital Input/Output module (PyPI).

Use this module to use PiFace Digital and PiFace Digital 2 hardware in Python3

Install

Make sure you are using the lastest version of Raspbian:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade

Enable SPI (e.g. use raspi-config)

$ sudo raspi-config

select `Interface Options` > `SPI` > `Yes` and then select `Finish`

If you need to install pip3

$ sudo apt install python3-pip

Install pifacedigitalio with the following command:

Python 3:
$ sudo pip3 install pifacecommon
$ sudo pip3 install pifacedigitalio

• Notice 1: Installation from Raspbian repository with apt is not longer the preferred way, take a look into [piface/pifacecommon#27 (comment) 27)
• Notice 2: Python 2 support is "end-of-life" since Jan 2020, refer to https://www.python.org/doc/sunset-python-2/

Examples

To run an example program clone this repo

$ git clone https://github.com/piface/pifacedigitalio.git

Test by running the blink.py program:

$ python3 pifacedigitalio/examples/blink.py

Documentation

http://pifacedigitalio.readthedocs.org/