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rpi gui to control gpio?

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Former Member over 10 years ago

Hello there, I hope this is in the right place. So I'm currently building a car for some local race events and car shows, and I wanted to do something different. My plan is to mount a touch screen into the dash board of the car, connected to a raspberry pi. The pi then would be connected to a relay board through the gpio. The relays would then control things like the lights mounted on the roof and bumper, radiator fans, aux fans, and possibly the open dump on the exhaust pipe. Now, i have all the physical stuff figured out, I know how to run all the wires and wire up the relays and plug in all the stuff to the pi. But I am a inexperienced when it comes to programming(I guess that’s what you would call it?) and I'm sure what I am asking is a lot harder then I think it is, but how would I create a "GUI" so to speak of switches that I can toggle with a touch of a touch screen, that then would trigger a gpio, that would also read, for example, "radiator fans on/off" so I would know which relay I'm turning on/off? And yes, I know I could just to a switch panel, but like I said just wanted to do something different. thanks in advance

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    0 clem57 over 10 years ago

    I would check out http://makezine.com/projects/tutorial-raspberry-pi-gpio-pins-and-python/ A good place to learn and try both programming and simple circuit. Let me know how project goes.

    Clem

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    0 Former Member over 10 years ago in reply to clem57

    I forgot to respond early, but thanks for the insight. I got the pins working so think you for that. Would you happen to know anything about the graphic interface side of things? Something simple with a few touch tiles to toggle weather the pins are on or off, I read about using glade to make an interface, so I downloaded glade v3(?)  on my ubuntu computer but not sure how to get what I made to run on the pi.

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    0 clem57 over 10 years ago in reply to Former Member

    Glad to hear you are working. If you do not mind, I get points if you mark my answer corect so I may earn a badge here.

    Thank you,

    Clem

    PS. I never heard of glade, but I will look into it.

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    0 clem57 over 10 years ago in reply to Former Member

    Glad to hear you are working. If you do not mind, I get points if you mark my answer corect so I may earn a badge here.

    Thank you,

    Clem

    PS. I never heard of glade, but I will look into it.

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