Pi4J :: Java I/O Library for Raspberry Pi

PROJECT INFORMATION

Project website: http://www.pi4j.com/
Project discussion group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/pi4j
Project issues list: https://github.com/Pi4J/pi4j/issues

Release builds are available from

[Maven Central] http://search.maven.org/#search%7Cga%7C1%7Ccom.pi4j
[Downloads] http://pi4j.com/download.html

Snapshot builds are available from

[Sonatype OSS] https://oss.sonatype.org/index.html#nexus-search;quick~pi4j
[Downloads] http://pi4j.com/download.html

LICENSE

Licensed under the GNU LGPLv3 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.txt

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

KNOWN ISSUES

2016-07-26 :: 1.1

On the Raspberry Pi Model 3B the hardware-based serial/UART device /dev/ttyAMA0 has been re-purposed to
communicate with the the built-in Bluetooth modem and is no longer mapped to the serial RX/TX pins on the GPIO header. Instead, a new serial port "/dev/ttyS0" has been provided which is implemented with a software-based UART (miniUART). This software-based UART ("/dev/ttyS0") does not support PARITY and some have experienced some stability issues using this port at higher speeds. If you don't need the Bluetooth modem functionality, you can disable the BT modem and configure the RPi to use a device-tree overlay to re-map the hardware-based serial UART ("/dev/ttyAMA0") back to the GPIO header pins for TX/RX. See the instructions on this page for details on how to configure the device-tree overlay and disable the bluetooth modem/service: https://openenergymonitor.org/emon/node/12311
The Odroid C1/C1+/C2 only permits up to four GPIO pins to be configured with edge detection for both "rising" and "falling" edges (a.k.a., "both"). Thus, you can only use a maximum of four GPIO input pins with listener events. You can, however, implement a polling strategy to read a pin state if you need more than 4 input pins. (see: Pi4J#229 & http://odroid.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=en:c1_hardware_irq)
PWM is not supported in the Hardkernel Odroid WiringPi port. Thus PWM is not currently supported by Pi4J for the Odroid boards (C1/C1+/C2). There is no PWM function on the 30pin GPIO header on the XU3/XU4.
(see: Pi4J#229)
SPI modes (other than the default SPI MODE 0) are not supported in the Hardkernel Odroid WiringPi port. Thus the Odroid C1/C1+/C2/XU4 only support SPI mode 0.
(see: Pi4J#229)

IN DEVELOPMENT

2016-12-05 :: 1.2-SNAPSHOT

Updated to Java 8 (enhancement #203)
Updated build dependencies/plugins to latest versions.
Removed unsupported sub-projects (pi4j-temp, pi4j-service).
Added experimental support for OrangePi platform.
Fixed #278: wiringPiSetup*: You must only call this once per program run.
Fixed #294; added java runtime and compiler check to pi4j helper script
Fixed #291; W1Device name contains "\n"
Fixed #275; LCDExample.java doesn't work in release
Fixed #276; RaspiBcmPin pins not firing pin state change events
Fixed #198; Problems with data from HMC5883L class

RELEASES

2016-07-26 :: 1.1

Added support for Odroid XU4 (see known issues here: Pi4J#229)
Added support for Odroid C1/C1+ (see known issues here: Pi4J#229)
Added support for Raspberry Pi 3 (Model B).
Added support for Raspberry Pi Zero.
Added support for BananaPi platform
Added support for BananaPro platform
Added non-privileged GPIO example code.
Added support for enabling non-privileged GPIO access via the Pi4J APIs
Added support for '/dev/gpiomem' to eliminate 'root' permissions requirement for basic GPIO.
Added PWM examples
Added I2C examples
Added support for native Watchdog.
Added W1 (1 wire) support.
Added MCP3204 ADC implementation and example code.
Added MCP3208 ADC implementation and example code.
Added MCP3004 ADC implementation and example code.
Added optimizations for GPIO state change latency
Added Gpio.pinModeAlt() method to the WiringPi wrappers to set pins to any ALT mode.
Added cross-compiler support in Maven build
Added cross-compiler shell script
Added ADC change background monitoring thread and event notifications.
Added new Serial JNI implementation to support more advanced serial configuration/operations
Updated Serial interface to extend from AutoCloseable.
Updated MCP3008 ADC implementation and example code.
Updated MCP4725 DAC implementation and example code.
Fixed #135; Serial communication using 7 Data Bits not working.
Fixed #180; WiringPiISR() callback causing native crash (NPE)
Fixed SPI issue where internal buffer was limited to 2048 bytes. Dynamically allocated now.
Fixed the Pi4J Serial interface to use the new Serial JNI implementation
Fixed wiringPi serial JNI methods to better support raw data operations
Cleanup for WiringPi native build
Cleanup for Pi4J native build
Now requires Java 7 runtime.

2015-08-30 :: 1.0.1

Minor updates.
Update ListenGpioExample.java; simplified infinite loop statement.
Update BlinkGpioExample.java; simplified infinite loop statement.
Fixes clear methods of LCDBase.java.
Update MCP3008Pin.java; incorrect pin number assignments.
Fix pins.contains() calls that received the vararg array "pin" instead of a "p" instance variable.

2015-04-18 :: 1.0

Released under GNU LGPLv3 license.
Added support for RaspberryPi v2 Model B
Added support for RaspberryPi Model A+
Added support for RaspberryPi Model B+
Added support for RaspberryPi Compute Module
Added support for debounce logic on digital input pin events
Added support for Button component interface
Added support for Pibrella device
Added support for SPI modes
Added support for building pi4j-native project directly on the Pi (using maven)
Added easy install/uninstall scripts (get.pi4j.com)
Added APT package and repository support (repository.pi4j.com)
Simplified native library loader to find embedded hard-float native lib
Fixed JDK8 build errors.
Removed support (and complicated builds) for soft-float ABI
Updated documentation in preparation for 1.0 release
Cleaned up build
Enhancements Added: https://github.com/Pi4J/pi4j/issues?q=label%3Aenhancement+is%3Aclosed+milestone%3A%22RELEASE+1.0%22+
Bugs/Defects Fixed: https://github.com/Pi4J/pi4j/issues?q=label%3Abug+is%3Aclosed+milestone%3A%22RELEASE+1.0%22+

2013-03-17 :: 0.0.5

Added support for PCF8574 GpioProvider
Added sample code for using PCF8574 GpioProvider
Fixed issue where hard-float ABI was not detected properly when using Oracle JDK 8 early access edition. Pi4J#26
Added support for Motor and Stepper motor component interfaces.
Added GPIO based stepper motor implementation and sample program.
Added support for Motion sensor component interface.
Added GPIO based motion sensor implementation.
Added LCD component interface
Added GPIO based 4/8 bit LCD display component implementation and sample program.
Added GPIO based 4/8 bit LCD WiringPi example program
Added support for a GpioController.shutdown() method to cleanup terminate all Pi4J threads and executors. Pi4J#9
Added support for a user-definable ExecutorServiceFactory to allow user program to provide the implementation for executor service instances and managed thread pools.
Pi4J#10
Fixed 'java.util.concurrent.RejectedExecutionException' issue where there were not enough default thread in the pool for concurrent tasks. Pi4J#31
Fixed issue where SerialDataMonitorThread was not shutting down on program exit. Pi4J#33
Fixed issue where hard-float ABI was not detected properly when using Oracle JDK 8 early access edition. Pi4J#26
Added support for exceptions on serial port access methods. Pi4J#8
Fixed issue where process streams were not being closed properly Pi4J#35
Fixed issue where serial.write(byte[]) was throwing java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException Pi4J#37
Added additional system information API methods to access memory, frequency, CPU temperature, voltage, and board model data. Pi4J#30
Fixed MCP23008 and MCP23017 getState() return values
Added support for MCP23S17 GpioProvider
Added support for Pi-Face GpioProvider
Added support for Pi-Face Device Interface
Added MCP23S17GpioExample sample code
Added PiFaceExample sample code
Added WiringPiSPIExample sample code
Added LED component interface and GpioLEDCompoment impl
Added GpioSwitchCompoment impl

2012-12-16 :: 0.0.4

Added support for building a Pi4J .deb installer package for Debian/Raspian Linux distribution. (BETA)
Modified NetworkInfo static methods to permit empty array return values when a network property cannot be obtained. Pi4J#3
Fixed issue in newer Raspberry Pi 512mb firmware where Pi4J was not compiled against latest wiringPi library and thus not detecting the hardware properly. Pi4J#3
Fixed defect where Pi4J library prevented consuming program from exiting properly. Pi4J#4 Pi4J#6
Added support for MCP23008 GPIO Provider using I2C bus.
Added support for MCP23017 GPIO Provider using I2C bus.
Modified build script to support concurrent soft-float and hard-float native library builds
Modified build script to include pulling wiringPi sources and compiling when building native library
Added power controller device interface, base impl, and reference impl
Added GpioController.provisionXXXPin methods that allow name to be optional
Relocated project downloads location to google code site; github deprecated downloads.
Added Google Groups discussion forum to project docs.
Added getTag() and setTag() to GpioPin interface and impl.
Added TemperatureConversion utility.
Added optional blocking argument to GpioPin pulse method to support blocking pulse invocations

2012-10-22 :: 0.0.3-SNAPSHOT

Refactored Gpio interfaces to permit extensible GpioProviders for add-on devices.
Refactored Gpio interfaces to separate digital, analog, and PWM types of input and output pins.
Added support for analog GPIO pins (interfaces, methods and events).
Added Olimex AVR-IO-M16 GpioProvider to serve as an example of extending a new GpioProvider for GPIO expansion.
Added Olimex AVR-IO-M16 sources for ARV micro-controller.
Removed setDirection() from GpioPin; embedded this functionality into existing setMode() method. Eliminating duplication.
Removed old test programs from pi4j-core and moved wiringPi examples to pi4j-example project.
Added support for I2C communication.
Added blink() methods for GPIO pins

2012-09-23 :: 0.0.2-SNAPSHOT

Refactored Gpio interface to permit methods using Pin argument to function without requiring a GpioPin to first be provisioned
Added OSGi manifest
Optimized GPIO interrupt thread handling to only be created if GpioPin listeners or triggers have been registered.
Now disabling/stopping GPIO interrupt native thread monitoring if all GpioPin listeners or triggers are unregistered.
Added additional convenience methods in GpioPin interface for evaluating state, direction, resistance, mode, etc.
There were two Gpio classes; renamed one to GpioController to avoid confusion.
Added OSGi service project to export Pi4J GPIO as an OSGi service.

2012-09-19 :: 0.0.1-SNAPSHOT