channel sent is invalid

[swisswilson]

im using a model B+ raspberry pi and using some of the GPIO pins and am getting the error "channel sent is invalid on the raspberry pi" when trying to set any gpio over 26 to an output. i have it set to gpio.setmode as BOARD and have tried numerous gpio pins but still get the same error. any suggestions or help would be great.

swissW

[DirkS]

Most likely the GPIO module you're using is not compatible with the B+.
If you're using the python module RPi.GPIO (on Raspbian) then you have to make sure that you're using v0.56
You should get that version with

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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

[swisswilson]

just tried doing update and upgrade and it made no difference, still the same error message

[AndrewS]

http://raspi.tv/2013/rpi-gpio-basics-1- ... n-you-have

[swisswilson]

ive checked what version of gpio im using and i have 0.5.6 which is what i thought was needed to use the model B+ gpio pins. still cant fiqure out why i cant use the extra GPIO pins...

[AndrewS]

I started looking into this, but then spotted http://sourceforge.net/p/raspberry-gpio ... ickets/69/