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Downloading software for the Piface Digital problems

ake09
ake09 over 11 years ago

Hi,

I bougth a Raspberry Pi board and played a little with it. I then bougth a PiFace Digital. It sits nice on top of the Pi board,but I need some software drivers in order to use the PiFace Digital board. How do I get the necesserary software into the SD?  I have not got a network connection to it. I guess that I have to add a software module to the SD by downloading it with my PC.

But what is  this module called and where can I find it?

 

Regards,

 

Åke

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    0 wymand over 11 years ago

    I am using python and the "import pifacedigitalio" statement and it makes it very easy

    to control the Pi Face board.

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    0 ake09 over 11 years ago in reply to wymand

    Hi Doug,

    Do you mean that you can compile Piface programs with the original NOOBS software?

    In other words, you don't have to bother about those .img files?

     

    Thanks in advance,

    Åke

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    0 ake09 over 11 years ago in reply to ake09

    I got another question.

    The files that I have downloaded from pi.cs.man.ac.uk have all been compiled for the 4 Gb Raspberry Pi boards.

    I have got 8 Gb on my board. Can an 4 Gb program execute in a 8 Gb memory?

    If that is no, then is there an 8 Gb version available?

     

    Regards,

    Åke

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  • lardconcepts
    0 lardconcepts over 11 years ago in reply to ake09

    Hi Ake; Can I ask why you appear to be downloading obsolete files from a site which says:

     

    These images are not updated any longer -- use the latest version of Raspbian and follow the steps here


    I followed the link and got to PiFace – Install PiFace Digital Software – Installing PiFace Digital modules which said:


    To install the PiFace Digital software run the command:

    sudo apt-get install python3-pifacedigital-emulator

    Enter Y when prompted.

    Then reboot

    I just did it on my 4Gb card, took me under 2 minutes including reboot. At what stage is this recommended method failing for you?


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    0 ake09 over 11 years ago in reply to lardconcepts

    Well I read the PiFace documents and under "Quick Start Guide" it said:

     

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    I believed it, so there is why I have spent several hours trying to get it to work.

    I will try your recommendation as quick as possible. Unfortunatly I will be out of my home for some days, but I will tell you if it is a success or not.

     

    Until then,

    Thanks and bye-bye

     

    Åke

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    0 ake09 over 11 years ago in reply to lardconcepts

    Well I read the PiFace documents and under "Quick Start Guide" it said:

     

    image

    I believed it, so there is why I have spent several hours trying to get it to work.

    I will try your recommendation as quick as possible. Unfortunatly I will be out of my home for some days, but I will tell you if it is a success or not.

     

    Until then,

    Thanks and bye-bye

     

    Åke

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