What is the proper way to handle pigpio's initialization if there are multiple programs that need to run simultaneously?
Specifically, I have a background task which never quits, and must call gpioInitialise to monitor an IO pin. If I try to launch another program gpioInitialise fails with error -1 (presumably because it's already initialized). How should I handle this?
Re: Multiple programs using pigpio
The other programs will have to use the socket or pipe interface to access the running library.
Only one program directly linked with the pigpio library can be run at a time (that program becomes the pigpio daemon).
That's how the Python module works. With C use http://abyz.co.uk/rpi/pigpio/pdif2.html
Only one program directly linked with the pigpio library can be run at a time (that program becomes the pigpio daemon).
That's how the Python module works. With C use http://abyz.co.uk/rpi/pigpio/pdif2.html