Supported Platforms

The PiServoHat Python package current supports the following platforms:

Raspberry Pi

Dependencies

This package depends on the qwiic I2C driver: Qwiic_I2C_Py

This package depends on the PCA9685 PWM controller: Qwiic_PCA9685_Py

Documentation

The SparkFun PiServoHat module documentation is hosted at ReadTheDocs

Installation

PyPi Installation

This repository is hosted on PyPi as the sparkfun-pi-servo-hat package. On systems that support PyPi installation via pip, this library is installed using the following commands

For all users (note: the user must have sudo privileges):

sudo pip install sparkfun-pi-servo-hat

For the current user:

pip install sparkfun-pi-servo-hat

Local Installation

To install, make sure the setuptools package is installed on the system.

Direct installation at the command line:

python setup.py install

To build a package for use with pip:

python setup.py sdist

A package file is built and placed in a subdirectory called dist. This package file can be installed using pip.

cd dist

pip install sparkfun_pi-servo-hat-<version>.tar.gz

Example Use (to be editted)

See the examples directory for more detailed use examples.

import pi_servo_hat
import time
import sys
 
def runExample():
 
    print("\nSparkFun Pi Servo Hat Demo\n")
    mySensor = pi_servo_hat.PiServoHat()
 
    if mySensor.isConnected() == False:
        print("The Qwiic PCA9685 device isn't connected to the system. Please check your connection", \
            file=sys.stderr)
        return
 
    mySensor.restart()
  
    # Test Run
    
    mySensor.move_servo_position(0, 0)
 
    # Pause 1 sec
    time.sleep(1)
 
    # Moves servo position to 90 degrees (2ms), Channel 0
    mySensor.move_servo_position(0, 90)