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Access to 5 GPIO pins with Wolfson Sound Card

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Former Member over 11 years ago

Raspberry Pi provides GPIO on P1 and P5 connectors. Both these connectors are occupied by Wolfson Sound card.. Two on these GPIO are available on Wolfson card.  In our project we need 5 GPIO. Hence the two questions:

 

1. Of the GPIOs on P1 and P5 which ones are NOT used by the Wolfson sound card?

2. What is the best way to phyiscally accesses these GPIO.

 

We would not be able to use the Wolfson sound card if we do not get access to in total 5 GPIO pins. Please assist.

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    I think your options are:

     

    1. Wire an I2C interfaced GPIO expander to the Pi I2C pins in parallel with the Wolfson card. Maybe PCF8575, or MCP23017.

    2. Use a microcontroller on Pi I2C or serial port to handle your I/O. Serial port is accessible at pins on the WAC.

    3. Use a USB I/O device

    4. Use a different audio device that doesn't monopolise the GPIO.

     

    Useful links:

    MCP23017-E/SP - MICROCHIP - IC, IO EXPANDER, 16BIT, I2C, 28DIP | Farnell UK

    Raspberry Pi MCP23017 Port Expander Board Kit | RPI-PORTEXP | HobbyTronics

     

    It's a shame Wolfson didn't use something like this to implement the board control functions, leaving the standard GPIO free.

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    Former Member over 11 years ago

    I think your options are:

     

    1. Wire an I2C interfaced GPIO expander to the Pi I2C pins in parallel with the Wolfson card. Maybe PCF8575, or MCP23017.

    2. Use a microcontroller on Pi I2C or serial port to handle your I/O. Serial port is accessible at pins on the WAC.

    3. Use a USB I/O device

    4. Use a different audio device that doesn't monopolise the GPIO.

     

    Useful links:

    MCP23017-E/SP - MICROCHIP - IC, IO EXPANDER, 16BIT, I2C, 28DIP | Farnell UK

    Raspberry Pi MCP23017 Port Expander Board Kit | RPI-PORTEXP | HobbyTronics

     

    It's a shame Wolfson didn't use something like this to implement the board control functions, leaving the standard GPIO free.

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