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Piscope - Raspberry Pi Tutorial

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Piscope

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- [Mark] I've had lots of times when I know the GPIO is connected correctly, and my program is correct, but nothing is happening. The program isn't reading a push button or an LED isn't lighting up or it would be really handy to be able to watch the GPIO status in real time so I can detect when buttons are being pushed. Well, PiScope to the rescue. This software utility is easy to install, and indicates the status of the GPIO pins. Here you can see what happens when I push our button and I can tell that it's connected to GPIO 21. Let's take a look at how to use it. Hi, I'm Mark Niemann-Ross and welcome to this week's edition of Raspberry Pi Weekly. Every week, we explore the Raspberry Pi and share useful tips. PiScope is easy to install. Under Raspberry Pi open up a terminal window. Type in wget abyz.me.uk/rpi/pigpio/piscope.tar and this will download the PiScope tar archive. Now you can unpack the file you've just…

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