WiringPi/gpio/gpio.1

.TH GPIO 1 "March 2018" wiringPi "Command-Line access to Raspberry Pi's GPIO"

.SH NAME
gpio \- Command-line access to Raspberry Pi's GPIO

.SH SYNOPSIS
.B gpio
.B \-v
.PP
.B gpio
.B [ \-g | \-1 ]
.B mode/read/write/aread/awrite/wb/pwm/pwnTone/clock/toggle/blink ...
.PP
.B gpio
.B [ \-x extension:params ]
.B mode/read/write/aread/awrite/pwm/toggle/blink ...
.PP
.B gpio
.B [ \-p ]
.B read/write/toggle/blink
.B ...
.PP
.B gpio
.B [ \-p ]
.B pwnTone pin frequency
.B ...
.PP
.B gpio
.B readall
.PP
.B gpio
.B wfi
.B ...
.PP
.B gpio
.B drive
group value
.PP
.B gpio
.B usbp
high | low
.PP
.B gpio
.B pwm-bal/pwm-ms
.PP
.B gpio
.B pwmr
range
.PP
.B gpio
.B load \ i2c/spi ...
.PP
.B gpio
.B gbr
channel
.PP
.B gpio
.B gbw
channel value

.SH DESCRIPTION

.B GPIO
is a swiss army knife of a command line tool to allow the user easy
access to the GPIO pins on the Raspberry Pi and the SPI A/D and D/A
converters on the Gertboard. It's designed for simple testing and
diagnostic purposes, but can be used in shell scripts for general if
somewhat slow control of the GPIO pins.

It can also control the IO's on the PiFace IO board and load the SPI and I2C
kernel modules if required.

.SH OPTIONS

.TP
.B \-v
Output the current version including the board revision of the Raspberry Pi.

.TP
.B \-g
Use the BCM_GPIO pins numbers rather than wiringPi pin numbers.
.\" \fINote:\fR The BCM_GPIO pin numbers are always used with character device ABI.

.TP
.B \-1
Use the physical pin numbers rather than wiringPi pin numbers.
\fINote:\fR that this applies to the P1 connector only. It is not possible to
use pins on the Revision 2 P5 connector this way, and as with \-g the
.\" BCM_GPIO pin numbers are always used with character device ABI.

.TP
.B \-x extension
This causes the named extension to be initialised. Extensions
comprise of a name (e.g. mcp23017) followed by a colon, then the
pin-base, then more optional parameters depending on the extension type.

.TP
.B \-p
Use the PiFace interface board and its corresponding pin numbers. The PiFace
will always appear at pin number 200 in the gpio command. You can assign any
pin numbers you like in your own programs though.

.TP
.B read <pin>
Read the digital value of the given pin and print 0 or 1 to represent the
respective logic levels.

.TP
.B write <pin> <value>
Write the given value (0 or 1) to the pin. You need to set the pin
to output mode first.

.TP
.B toggle <pin> 
Changes the state of a GPIO pin; 0 to 1, or 1 to 0.

Note unlike the blink command, the pin must be in output mode first.

.TP
.B blink <pin> 
Blinks the given pin on/off. Press Control-C to exit.

Note: This command explicitly sets the pin to output mode.

.TP
.B aread <pin>
Read the analog value of the given pin. This needs to be used in
conjunction with a -x flag to add in an extension that handles analog
inputs.

e.g. gpio -x mcp3002:200:0 aread 200

will read the first analog input on an mcp3002 SPI ADC chip.

.TP
.B awrite <pin> <value>
Write the analog value to the given pin. This needs to be used in
conjunction with a -x flag to add in an extension that handles analog
inputs. 

e.g. gpio -x mcp4802:200:0 awrite 200 128

will write the value 128 to the first DAC port on an mcp4802 chip on
the Pi's SPI bus 0.


.TP
.B wb <value>
Write the given byte to the 8 main GPIO pins. You can prefix it with 0x
to specify a hexadecimal number. You need to set pins to output mode
first.

.TP
.B readall
Output a table of all GPIO pins values. The values represent the actual values read
if the pin is in input mode, or the last value written if the pin is in output
mode.

The readall command is usable with an extension module (via the -x parameter),
but it's unable to determine pin modes or states, so will perform both a
digital and analog read on each pin in-turn.

.TP
.B pwm <pin> <value>
Write a PWM value (0-1023) to the given pin. The pin needs to be put
into PWM mode first.

.TP
.B clock <pin> <frequency>
Set the output frequency on the given pin. The pin needs to be put into
clock mode first.

.TP
.B mode <pin> <mode>
Set a pin into \fIinput\fR, \fIoutput\fR or \fIpwm\fR mode. Can also
use the literals \fIup\fR, \fIdown\fR or \fItri\fR to set the internal
pull-up, pull-down or tristate (off) controls.

The ALT modes can also be set using \fIalt0\fR, \fIalt1\fR,  ... \fIalt5\fR.

.TP
.B wfi <pin> <mode>
This set the given pin to the supplied interrupt mode: rising, falling
or both then waits for the interrupt to happen. It's a non-busy wait,
so does not consume and CPU while it's waiting.

.TP
.B drive
group value

Change the pad driver value for the given pad group to the supplied drive
value. Group is 0, 1 or 2 and value is 0-7. Do not use unless you are
absolutely sure you know what you're doing.

.TP
.B usbp
high | low

Change the USB current limiter to high (1.2 amps) or low (the default, 600mA)
This is only applicable to the Model B+ and the Model B, v2.

.TP
.B pwm-bal/pwm-ms 
Change the PWM mode to balanced (the default) or mark:space ratio (traditional)

.TP
.B pwmr
Change the PWM range register. The default is 1024.

.TP
.B gbr
channel

This reads the analog to digital converter on the Gertboard on the given
channel. The board jumpers need to be in-place to do this operation.

.TP
.B gbw
channel value

This writes the supplied value to the output channel on the Gertboards
SPI digital to analogue converter.
The board jumpers need to be in-place to do this operation.


.SH "WiringPi vs. BCM_GPIO Pin numbering vs. Physical pin numbering"

.PP
The quickest way to get a list of the pin differences is to run the command
.TP
gpio readall

.SH FILES

.TP 2.2i
.I gpio
executable

.SH EXAMPLES
.TP 2.2i
gpio mode 4 output # Set pin 4 to output
.PP
gpio -g mode 23 output # Set GPIO pin 23 to output (same as WiringPi pin 4)
.PP
gpio mode 1 pwm # Set pin 1 to PWM mode
.PP
gpio pwm 1 512 # Set pin 1 to PWM value 512 - half brightness
.PP
gpio -g read 0 # Read GPIO Pin 0 (SDA0)

.SH "NOTES"

As of kernels 4.1.7, a user-level GPIO access mechanism is available,
however wiringPi will not use this by default - because at this time
there appears to be issues when trying to program the PWM or clock output
hardware. If you can live without PWM or GPIO clocks and you want to use
the GPIO from a non-root program, then you need to make sure that the 
module \fIbcm2835_gpiomem\fR is loaded at boot time. This should happen
automatically when you enable the device tree in raspi-config. You may
also need some additional information in /etc/udev/rules.d/ to change the
mode and ownership of the /dev/gpiomem file. Finally, you need to set
the environment variable \fIWIRINGPI_GPIOMEM\fR. This will go-away
in future releases once the /dev/gpiomem interface is fully operational.

.SH "SEE ALSO"

.LP
WiringPi's development
.IP
https://github.com/WiringPi/WiringPi/

.SH AUTHOR

Gordon Henderson and contributors

.SH "REPORTING BUGS"

Please report bugs to https://github.com/WiringPi/WiringPi/issues

.SH COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2012-2024 Gordon Henderson and contributors
.br
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

.SH TRADEMARKS AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Raspberry Pi is a trademark of the Raspberry Pi Foundation. See
http://raspberrypi.org/ for full details.