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Getting the Wiring Right
Raspberry Pi 3+
In 2018 the Preinstalled BlueJ IDE, the Pi4J library that was in the directory /usr/share/bluej/userlib/
did not recognize my new pi 3 B+. After installing the latest WiringPi and intalling the latest Pi4J,
I still had to
sudo rm /usr/share/bluej/userlib/*.jar sudo cp /opt/pi4j/lib/*.jar /usr/share/bluej/userlib/
because the new jar
files of the Pi4j were stored in /opt/pi4j/lib/
and ignored by BlueJ because of the old version in /usr/share/bluej/userlib/
.
Descriptions of the new pin out numbers and usage are at http://Pi4j.com.
From the terminal:
pi@rbpi:~ $ gpio readall +-----+-----+---------+------+---+---Pi 3+--+---+------+---------+-----+-----+ | BCM | wPi | Name | Mode | V | Physical | V | Mode | Name | wPi | BCM | +-----+-----+---------+------+---+----++----+---+------+---------+-----+-----+ | | | 3.3v | | | 1 || 2 | | | 5v | | | | 2 | 8 | SDA.1 | IN | 1 | 3 || 4 | | | 5v | | | | 3 | 9 | SCL.1 | IN | 1 | 5 || 6 | | | 0v | | | | 4 | 7 | GPIO. 7 | IN | 1 | 7 || 8 | 0 | IN | TxD | 15 | 14 | | | | 0v | | | 9 || 10 | 1 | IN | RxD | 16 | 15 | | 17 | 0 | GPIO. 0 | IN | 0 | 11 || 12 | 0 | IN | GPIO. 1 | 1 | 18 | | 27 | 2 | GPIO. 2 | IN | 0 | 13 || 14 | | | 0v | | | | 22 | 3 | GPIO. 3 | IN | 0 | 15 || 16 | 0 | IN | GPIO. 4 | 4 | 23 | | | | 3.3v | | | 17 || 18 | 0 | IN | GPIO. 5 | 5 | 24 | | 10 | 12 | MOSI | IN | 0 | 19 || 20 | | | 0v | | | | 9 | 13 | MISO | IN | 0 | 21 || 22 | 0 | IN | GPIO. 6 | 6 | 25 | | 11 | 14 | SCLK | IN | 0 | 23 || 24 | 1 | IN | CE0 | 10 | 8 | | | | 0v | | | 25 || 26 | 1 | IN | CE1 | 11 | 7 | | 0 | 30 | SDA.0 | IN | 1 | 27 || 28 | 1 | IN | SCL.0 | 31 | 1 | | 5 | 21 | GPIO.21 | IN | 1 | 29 || 30 | | | 0v | | | | 6 | 22 | GPIO.22 | IN | 1 | 31 || 32 | 0 | IN | GPIO.26 | 26 | 12 | | 13 | 23 | GPIO.23 | IN | 0 | 33 || 34 | | | 0v | | | | 19 | 24 | GPIO.24 | IN | 0 | 35 || 36 | 0 | IN | GPIO.27 | 27 | 16 | | 26 | 25 | GPIO.25 | OUT | 0 | 37 || 38 | 0 | IN | GPIO.28 | 28 | 20 | | | | 0v | | | 39 || 40 | 0 | IN | GPIO.29 | 29 | 21 | +-----+-----+---------+------+---+----++----+---+------+---------+-----+-----+ | BCM | wPi | Name | Mode | V | Physical | V | Mode | Name | wPi | BCM | +-----+-----+---------+------+---+---Pi 3+--+---+------+---------+-----+-----+
The kit I bought from CanaKit had wriiten the BCM numbers, but I needed to program with the wPi numbers.
Raspberry Pi 400
In 2022 I got a Raspberry Pi4 400. Unfortunately, it was so new, the old gpio -v gave me the message “Oops - unable to determine board type… model: 19”
I found some help at https://pi4j.com/1.4/install.html. I followed the “Easy Method” which produced the pi4j-core.jar file that I needed. In order for BlueJ to find it, I copied it over to the proper directory:
sudo cp /opt/pi4j/lib/*.jar /usr/share/bluej/userlib/