OrangePI OPi.GPIO v0.3.4 finally solves the race condition bug

for all OrangePI users, if you are using plugins (or developing ones) that use GPIO pins to do stuff (like for e.g. you want to attach filament sensor to octoprint https://github.com/arhi/Octoprint-Filament-Reloaded-OrangePi ) till recently OPi.GPIO library had a bad race condition bag that was preventing non-root user to properly access GPIO pins and a hack with adding a pause had to be done for any GPIO access to work. With release v0.3.4 this is finally solved so you can properly use GPIO on OPI boards :slight_smile:

To setup OPI boards so that pi user can access the GPIO, the copy of the manual from library:

If you want to be able to use the library as a non root user, you will need to setup a UDEV rule to grant you permissions first. This can be accomplished as follows:

$ sudo usermod -aG gpio <current_user>
$ sudo nano /etc/udev/rules.d/99-gpio.rules

That should add your user to the GPIO group, create a new UDEV rule, and open it in the Nano text editor. Enter the following into Nano

  SUBSYSTEM=="gpio", KERNEL=="gpiochip*", ACTION=="add", PROGRAM="/bin/sh -c 'chown root:gpio /sys/class/gpio/export /sys/class/gpio/unexport ; chmod 220 /sys/class/gpio/export /sys/class/gpio/unexport'" 
  SUBSYSTEM=="gpio", KERNEL=="gpio*", ACTION=="add", PROGRAM="/bin/sh -c 'chown root:gpio /sys%p/active_low /sys%p/direction /sys%p/edge /sys%p/value ; chmod 660 /sys%p/active_low /sys%p/direction /sys%p/edge /sys%p/value'"

press ctrl-x , Y , and ENTER to save and close the file. Finally, reboot and you should be ready to use OPi.GPIO as a non root user.

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does this also work if the error is: channel is not configured?