[fpc-pascal] Parallel Port Access with Free Pascal - windows - PiGpio.zip (0/1)

[Bo Berglund]

On Sun, 24 Jul 2016 10:29:04 -0400, "James Richters"
<james at productionautomation.net> wrote:

>Bo, 
>I also have a raspberry pi project..  I got a hifi-berry card for it and it
>is streaming audio to a central audio system, I'm using VLC media player and
>an app on my cell phone to control it,  I have not made use of the GPIO on
>them yet, but I would really like to learn how this can be accomplished with
>FPC, since I am more familiar with pascal than any other language, it would
>be great to learn how to do this!  I have a particular application in mind.
>I have a relay board that will turn relays on and off with TTL level
>signals, what I wish to do is have a remote way to turn certain amplifiers
>on and off.   There are 24 amplifiers going to 44 speakers (4 are
>subwoffers) in and around my house, sometimes I'll want just downstairs and
>outside amps on, other times I'll want just one room on, or all amps on....
>etc.    The amps are all in my crawlspace under the first floor, and that's
>where the raspberry pi is.  I also have some volume control chips that are
>controlled by clocking data into them, I could chain them all together and
>be able to control all of them with just one clock and one data bit.   
>Any advice on how to get started on controlling GPIO with a raspberry pi
>with FPC would be greatly appreciated!
>

It has been discussed over at the Raspberry Pi forum. Basically the
solution is to use a modified version of teh PiGpio.pas driver.
Here are a few threads where I was involved:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=826439#p826439

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=826888#p826888

I have attached a zipped version of the PiGpio.pas driver file for
you.


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Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden