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

    using the command line:

      • type "sudo raspi-config" and press enter

      • Select option 8: "Advanced options"
      • Select option A5: "SPI"
      • Select "Yes"
      • Select "Finish" to exit
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    0 ake09 over 11 years ago in reply to fvan

    Thanks everyone who has been involved in helping me to get a piece of code to show a blinking LED on the PiFace Digital board.

    And a special thanks to Doug and Frederick.image

    I am really grateful!

     

    Thanks again!

     

    Åke

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    0 Former Member over 11 years ago in reply to ake09

    Thanks everyone for looking at my perhaps rather severe comments, but I have spent over a week trying to get Piface working but still can't import the module. The download of digitalis seemed to go ok as did the emulator. The emulator works for about 30 seconds and then does uncontrollable odd things and the processor activity is 100%.

    I have to use Ctrl/Alt/Delete to stop it and it still remains on screen!

    However when I try to "import Piface-digital", it still says "no module"

    Help please.

     

    TTFN

    Alan

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    0 Former Member over 11 years ago in reply to wymand

    Thanks everyone for looking at my perhaps rather severe comments, but I have spent over a week trying to get Piface working but still can't import the module. The download of digitalis seemed to go ok as did the emulator. The emulator works for about 30 seconds and then does uncontrollable odd things and the processor activity is 100%.

    I have to use Ctrl/Alt/Delete to stop it and it still remains on screen!

    However when I try to "import Pifacedigitalio", it still says "no module"

    Help please.

     

    TTFN

    Alan

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  • wymand
    0 wymand over 11 years ago in reply to Former Member

    Install

    Make sure you are using the lastest version of Raspbian:

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

    Install pifacedigitalio (for Python 3 and 2) with the following command:

    $ sudo apt-get install python{,3}-pifacedigitalio 

    Test by running the blink.py program:

    $ python3 /usr/share/doc/python3-pifacedigitalio/examples/blink.py
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    0 ake09 over 11 years ago in reply to wymand

    Thanks everybody for helping me.

    I believe that this subject is now closed.

    I'll input a new question if I get into trouble! image

     

    Have a nice day,

    Åke

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