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The Expander Pi is an Analogue, Digital and RTC development Interface for the Raspberry Pi

07/08/2020

Posted by:
GrahamT

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Greetings.

I recently purchased the Expander Pi, as a novice I rely heavily on the tutorial on the website. I successfully worked my way through the tutorial on reading and writing to the IO pins but struggling with the “demo_adcread.py” when I first run the program I had a problem with the Libraries not being installed correctly, so I poked and prodded a bit… I now get the following when I run the program:

Python 3.7.3 (/usr/bin/python3)

>>> %cd /home/pi

>>> %Run demo-adcread2.py

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/home/pi/demo-adcread2.py", line 16, in <module>

adc = ADC() # create an instance of the ADC

File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/ExpanderPi/ExpanderPi.py", line 122, in __init__

self.__spiADC.open(0, 0)

FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

>>>

Thank you in advance

07/08/2020

Posted by:
andrew

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Hello Graham

Have you enabled the SPI bus on your Raspberry Pi? Try going through the steps in our SPI tutorial and see if that fixes the problem.

07/08/2020

Posted by:
GrahamT

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And just like waving... it works...

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