When will the latest version of Pi4J be released?

[Daniel Mårtensson]

Hi!

I'm building a logger software and I'm planing to use Pi4J.

I have heard that Pi4J dropping WiringPi now and using another library for hardware communication.

Is there any schedule for this?

Very important for me to access hardware PWM! I know that 3B+ have 4 PWM pins.

[Frank Delporte]

Work is ongoing at this moment to make a new version of V1 which still uses WiringPi.

But indeed a new V2 is also in progress which uses PiGpio (or other) and can already be used as proof-of-concept from https://github.com/Pi4J/pi4j-v2

Schedules are not available, this is OSS so as you will understand, depends on the time contributors can spend on the project.

Best regards

Frank

[Jim Darby]

I'm working quite hard on pi4j-v2 and its use of pigpio. It's quite… interesting and there are several issues that are being resolved. Right now it's not for the faint-hearted and I'd stick to V1.

Having said which, if you want Java 11 right now then please feel free to talk about it. We have some help and work-arounds for you.

Jim.

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[Robert Savage]

PWM is definitely supported and if I recall correctly, the PiGpio library provides better support for PWM.

Here are a few simple examples using Pi4J V2.

https://github.com/Pi4J/pi4j-examples/tree/master/src/main/java/com/pi4j/example/pwm

Like Jim said, V2 is still very much experimental.  However, I did use PWM to drive some audio channels in a V2 demo that I gave at the last JavaOne/CodeOne conference.

Here is that demo:  https://github.com/Pi4J/pi4j-demo-telegraph

  

Thanks, Robert

[Daniel Mårtensson]

Hi.

I have quit using Java 8. I'm using Java 11.

Try to see if you can use GraalVM with Pi4J. I have heard that GraalVM result a very fast benchmark.

[Daniel Mårtensson]

I'm planning to buy a Raspberry 4B due to its high ram.

Is it possible for you to upload a alpha version of Pi4J V2 on Maven central?

My project is a web application where I'm including Pi4J. It going to be a open source project avaiable on my GitHub.

Ok. Good that Pi4J v2 have hardware PWM. 4 outputs?

Does v2 have SPI and digital in?

I can help with writing examples for Pi4J.
I have lots if STM32 libraries written in C code.

https://github.com/DanielMartensson/STM32-Libraries

[Robert Savage]

Publishing to Maven central requires a release cycle and we are not ready for that just yet.  

You can however access the v2.0 SNAPSHOT artifacts in the SONATYPE OSS SNAPSHOT repository 

https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/com/pi4j/

>  Good that Pi4J v2 have hardware PWM. 4 outputs?

It should.  We don't do anything at the moment to quality which pins support what type of functionality.  So if it's supported by the underlying PiGpio library, then it should work in Pi4J V2.

You will need to manually download and install the latest PiGPIO. lib. http://abyz.me.uk/rpi/pigpio/

>   Does v2 have SPI and digital in?

Yes, it will support the following I/O types:

• DIGITAL INPUT. (GPIO)
• DIGITAL OUTPUT (GPIO)
• ANALOG INPUT
• ANALOG OUTPUT
• PWM
• I2C
• SPI
• SERIAL (RS232)

See: https://v2.pi4j.com/documentation/io

[Daniel Mårtensson]

Great!

I will try pi4j-core-2.0-20200611.181858-9.jar with Raspberry Pi 4B and see how it's working.