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Common functions for interacting with PiFace products
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pifacecommon

Common functions for interacting with PiFace products.

Documentation

http://pifacecommon.readthedocs.org/

You can also find the documentation installed at:

/usr/share/doc/python3-pifacecommon/

Install

Make sure you are using the lastest version of Raspbian:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade

Install pifacecommon with the following command:

Python 3:
$ sudo pip3 install pifacecommon

Notice 1: Installation from Raspbian repository with apt is not longer the preferred way, take a look into [https://github.com/piface/pifacecommon/issues/27#issuecomment-451400154](issue 27)

Notice 2: Python 2 support is "end-of-life" since Jan 2020, refer to https://www.python.org/doc/sunset-python-2/

You will also need to set up automatic loading of the SPI kernel module which can be done with the lastest version of raspi-config. Run:

$ sudo raspi-config

Then navigate to Advanced Options, SPI and select yes.