unosquare/pigpio-dotnet

sudo needed for running PiGpio

dobova86 opened this issue · 2 comments

dobova86 commented

The PiGpio is working very nice and fast, but I can't start NetCore code as normal user ("pi"), it needs "sudo" to work. Is there a solution to this issue? I've searched around, but I coudn't solve. Is there anyone can help?

k3z0 commented

Hi @dobova86

In order to access peripherals, PiGpio performs a memory mapping from /dev/mem file, this way they can access peripherals as if they were programming the actual microprocessor. Nevertheless, this file can only be accessed as a root user, so you shall running it using sudo.

dobova86 commented

Hi @dobova86

In order to access peripherals, PiGpio performs a memory mapping from /dev/mem file, this way they can access peripherals as if they were programming the actual microprocessor. Nevertheless, this file can only be accessed as a root user, so you shall running it using sudo.

Thanks for reply and clarification.