GPIO management change with the new Rapsberry Pi5

[TheOldPresbyope]

Hello Tim,

While trying to compile some Python scripts with pyinstaller, I discovered that, due to hardware changes, the new Rapsberry Pi5 that I chose for Moode, was no more compatible with the RPI.GPIO library (https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=372507 or https://waldorf.waveform.org.uk/2022/the...stuff.html). I was wondering whether or not you were aware about that change ?

Best regards

A quick search of the packages installed on a stock moOde 9.1.3 player will show you that RPi.GPIO is not preset but the suggested alternatives are

For example

Code:

rho@sunroom:~ $ sudo apt list --installed|grep -i gpio

WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.

gpiod/stable,now 1.6.3-1+b3 arm64 [installed]
libgpiod2/stable,now 1.6.3-1+b3 arm64 [installed,automatic]
liblgpio1/stable,now 0.2.2-1~rpt1 arm64 [installed,automatic]
libpigpio-dev/stable,now 1.79-1+rpt1 arm64 [installed,automatic]
libpigpio1/stable,now 1.79-1+rpt1 arm64 [installed,automatic]
libpigpiod-if-dev/stable,now 1.79-1+rpt1 arm64 [installed,automatic]
libpigpiod-if1/stable,now 1.79-1+rpt1 arm64 [installed,automatic]
libpigpiod-if2-1/stable,now 1.79-1+rpt1 arm64 [installed,automatic]
pigpio-tools/stable,now 1.79-1+rpt1 arm64 [installed,automatic]
pigpio/stable,now 1.79-1+rpt1 arm64 [installed]
pigpiod/stable,now 1.79-1+rpt1 arm64 [installed,automatic]
python3-gpiozero/now 2.0-1 all [installed,upgradable to: 2.0.1-0+rpt1]
python3-lgpio/stable,now 0.2.2-1~rpt1 arm64 [installed,automatic]
python3-libgpiod/stable,now 1.6.3-1+b3 arm64 [installed]
python3-pigpio/stable,stable,now 1.79-1+rpt1 all [installed]
python3-rpi-lgpio/now 0.4-1~rpt1 all [installed,upgradable to: 0.6-0~rpt1]
raspi-gpio/stable,now 0.20231127 arm64 [installed]

So many HowTos on the InterWeb™ about the Raspberry Pi are out of date and the topic of gpio usage may be the worst offender.

Regards,
Kent

ETA - To be explicit, the name of the Debian package for RPi.GPIO is python3-rpi.gpio which is not present in the list above.