02-01-2017, 11:29 AM
(This post was last modified: 02-01-2017, 11:32 AM by MarkHaysHarris777.)
The PI bus on the PineA64 does match the Raspberry PI pin-for-pin; however, it is NOT entirely compatible with the Raspberry PI in terms of peripherals ( on the market ) nor with the minor use of some pins.
The differences are very minor and can be corrected with external components. The default pull-up ( or pull down ) resisters internal to the Raspberry PI need to be added in some cases on the PineA64 board; not a big deal.
The main pin that is problematic is GPIO(4) PL10; PI bus pin(7). This pin is the LCD screen PWM back-light pin , which cannot be set(ON | OFF) as a normal PI gpio output pin; nor can it be used as an input pin.
Otherwise, the pins are pin-for-pin "like" the gpio bus on the Raspberry PI; The pins can be accessed easily with Python using the RPi.GPIO-PineA64 module found on github posted by swkim01.
RPi.GPIO-PineA64
Oh, and since November, the module above linked now has i2c and SPI.
The differences are very minor and can be corrected with external components. The default pull-up ( or pull down ) resisters internal to the Raspberry PI need to be added in some cases on the PineA64 board; not a big deal.
The main pin that is problematic is GPIO(4) PL10; PI bus pin(7). This pin is the LCD screen PWM back-light pin , which cannot be set(ON | OFF) as a normal PI gpio output pin; nor can it be used as an input pin.
Otherwise, the pins are pin-for-pin "like" the gpio bus on the Raspberry PI; The pins can be accessed easily with Python using the RPi.GPIO-PineA64 module found on github posted by swkim01.
RPi.GPIO-PineA64
Oh, and since November, the module above linked now has i2c and SPI.
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