28BYJ-48 stepper with Raspberry Pi 5

[astroisk]

Hi,

I was struggling to get the 28BYJ-48 stepper working the with the Raspberry Pi 5, even though the stepper works just fine with my other Python projects. For whatever reason, Raspberry Pi OS ships with python3-rpi.gpio which doesn't work due to different hardware setup, and should be hot-swapped with rpi-lgpio. The former is removed with sudo apt remove python3-rpi.gpio but for the latter I had to edit requirements/requirements_gpio.txt to remove the comment from rpi-lgpio. Then during the installation I selected to install additional libraries and the GPIO libraries and then everything starts working.

Hopefully this helps any others facing this issue.

Thanks!

[aaronwmorris]

I recently applied some work in #1710 that will always replace rpi.gpio with rpi.lgpio. indi-allsky does not use the system python modules, this has to be done in the indi-allsky virtualenv.

source virtualenv/indi-allsky/bin/activate

pip uninstall RPi.GPIO rpi.lgpio

pip install --upgrade rpi.lgpio