GPIO button press image display

Hey all, so i am trying to load an image file when a button is pressed connected to GPIO pins.

I followed the setup on adafruits site here: http://learn.adafruit.com/adafruits-ras ... gpio-setup


i then created my code below an its giving me an error that it cannot find a module named "Image". Very new to linux and python so all help appreciated.

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#!/usr/bin/env python
import RPi.GPIO as GPIO
import time
import os
import Image
im=Image.open("/home/pi/imagejpg/Home.jpg").convert("RGB")
#adjust for where your switch is connected
buttonPin = 23
GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BCM)
GPIO.setup(buttonPin,GPIO.IN)

while True:
     if ( GPIO.input(23) == False ):
         im.show()
   

Try...

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from PIL import Image

Dave.

it said no module named "PIL".

I am very new and not sure if I need to install libraries(?) or other dependencies.

To install PIL:

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$ sudo apt-get install python-imaging

Apologies if that's not quite right - I am working from memory as I am not at a computer at the moment!

before I attempt, should a simple import Image work with my current setup?

Go with croston's post and you should be good.

Dave.

thank you all for being so helpful. the error is gone, but a new error popped up:

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SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xc2' in file buttonimage.py on line 13, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details

tried from PIL import Image and just import Image but same error.

Is buttonimage.py your program? If so, delete and rewrite line 13 - you have done a copy & paste of a strange whitespace character. I don't think the error is anything to do with PIL.

Great! that solvesd that error. but now when my code is executed in terminal, i.e.

sudo python buttonimage.py, it seems to hang without any results.

i tested a simple sketch to load an image and made it executable with chmod +x like so:

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import Image
im = Image.open("/home/pi/imagejpg/Home.jpg").convert("RGB")
im.show()

So I I added the feh image viewer since i read img.show is reliant on xv. im stilll not getting an image shown though

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import Image
img=Image.open("/home/pi/Home.jpg")
img.show(command='feh')

[texy]

Hi,
I would make sure your button is working as expected before worrying about the image. Take a look at the Mapi magazine, issue 2.
http://issuu.com/themagpi/docs/the_magpi_issue_2_final

Texy

I would make sure your button is working as expected before worrying about the image.

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The order in which to work on the two different parts of my code is irrelevant.

[texy]

Hi,
it may well be irrelevant, but thats the order I would do things if I didn't know what I was doing
You can very easily remove any reference to checking the input pin from your code to make sure the image is loaded without any pre-condition.
So as I said, making sure the button hardware is correctly working and the software is configured to match that hardware is more difficult if you have little experience of doing it.
Texy