Marto

Thank you for the links. I will check it out. I know Mark from his work on wxPerl.

My current code is several single function scripts to test concepts. I will ultimately be interfacing some custom hardware to the Quisk Software Defined Radio(SDR) package via a localhost socket. The Perl TCP/IP support made this interface really simple. At this point porting to a different language/library wouldn't be too bad, but I really don't want to learn Python.

Update: It looks like HiPi will do the trick. I got it loaded today on a RPi 3B+ and ported two of my test scripts over. They both ran fine.

HiPi was updated this month to support the new RPi 4B 8GB board. Raspbian 64bit is in beta.

#! /usr/bin/perl
#
# hipiiotest.pl - Test PB, Encoder, and LED Wiring  - Uses Perl HiPi D
+istribution
#                                                     by Mark Dootson
#
# James M. Lynes Jr. - KE4MIQ
# Created:       October 18,2019 - Initial test version using RPi::Wir
+ingPi
#                                  by Steve Bertran
# Last Modified: 06/09/2020 - First version using HiPi
#                06/12/2020 - Merge changes tested in hipiblink.pl
# Target:        Raspberry Pi 3B+ and 4B in the future
#
# Notes:         Pin numbers below refer to the GPIO## numbers
#                    ex: 4 -> GPIO4    17 -> GPIO17
#
# RPI J8 - GPIO Pin Definitions
# -----------------------------
#         3V3  (1) (2)  5V
#   SDA/GPIO2  (3) (4)  5V
#   SCL/GPIO3  (5) (6)  GND
#   PB1/GPIO4  (7) (8)  GPIO14
#         GND  (9) (10) GPIO15
#  PB2/GPIO17 (11) (12) GPIO18
# ENCA/GPIO27 (13) (14) GND
# ENCB/GPIO22 (15) (16) GPIO23
#         3V3 (17) (18) GPIO24
#  RED/GPIO10 (19) (20) GND
#  YEL/ GPIO9 (21) (22) GPIO25
#  GRN/GPIO11 (23) (24) GPIO8
#         GND (25) (26) GPIO7
#       GPIO0 (27) (28) GPIO1
#       GPIO5 (29) (30) GND
#       GPIO6 (31) (32) GPIO12
#      GPIO13 (33) (34) GND
#      GPIO19 (35) (36) GPIO16
#      GPIO26 (37) (38) GPIO20
#         GND (39) (40) GPIO21

use strict;
use warnings;
use HiPi qw( :rpi );
use HiPi::GPIO;
use Time::HiRes qw(sleep);

my $gpio = HiPi::GPIO->new;            # Create a GPIO Object

# Create two push button inputs
my $pb1 = $gpio->get_pin(4);           # Create pin object for pb1
$pb1->mode(RPI_MODE_INPUT);            # Set pin to input
$pb1->set_pud(RPI_PUD_UP);             # Turn on internal pull-up resi
+stor

my $pb2 = $gpio->get_pin(17);          # Create pin object for pb2
$pb2->mode(RPI_MODE_INPUT);            # Set pin to input
$pb2->set_pud(RPI_PUD_UP);             # Turn on internal pull-up resi
+stor

# Create two encoder inputs
my $enca = $gpio->get_pin(27);         # Create pin object for ENCA
$enca->mode(RPI_MODE_INPUT);           # Set pin to input
$enca->set_pud(RPI_PUD_UP);            # Turn on internal pull-up resi
+stor

my $encb = $gpio->get_pin(22);         # Create pin object for ENCB
$encb->mode(RPI_MODE_INPUT);           # Set pin to input
$encb->set_pud(RPI_PUD_UP);            # Turn on internal pull-up resi
+stor

# Create three LED outputs
my $led1 = $gpio->get_pin(10);         # Red
$led1->mode(RPI_MODE_OUTPUT);
$led1->value(RPI_HIGH);

my $led2 = $gpio->get_pin(9);          # Yellow
$led2->mode(RPI_MODE_OUTPUT);
$led2->value(RPI_HIGH);

my $led3 = $gpio->get_pin(11);         # Green
$led3->mode(RPI_MODE_OUTPUT);
$led3->value(RPI_HIGH);

sleep(2);                              # Leave LEDs on for two seconds

$led1->value(RPI_LOW);                 # Turn the LEDs back off
$led2->value(RPI_LOW);
$led3->value(RPI_LOW);


while(1) {

    my $pb1v  = $pb1->value;           # Read the four input values
    my $pb2v  = $pb2->value;
    my $encav = $enca->value;
    my $encbv = $encb->value;

    $led1->value($encav);              # Echo encoder bits to leds
    $led2->value($encbv);

    print "PB1:  $pb1v\n";             # Print the current values
    print "PB2:  $pb2v\n";
    print "ENCA: $encav\n";
    print "ENCB: $encbv\n\n";

    sleep(.1);                         # Delay 100ms
}
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James