GPIO based I/O and interrupt detection with Node.js on the Beagle or Raspberry Pi

想要在 Raspberry Pi 或 BeagleBone (Linux Board) 用 JaveScript 開/關東西嗎 ? 或是偵測像是按鈕是不是已經被按下的中斷訊號嗎 ?

如果答案是 "是" 的話，那麼 onoff ( is the Node.js Module ) 就是一個選擇，詳細的說明可以在下面連結中找到：

http://github.com/fivdi/onoff

要使用 onoff，系統的 Node.js 版本必須為 V0.8.0 或更高版本。如果還沒安裝，可以在 Raspbian  安裝 V0.8.14，它運行的很好。

[2012/11/13 更新]
版本 0.1.0 的 Node.je GPIO 函式庫 onoff 已經更新為新版本，更版本做了一些改進：

• 更好的效能
• 同步 (Synchronous) 與非同步 (Asynchronous) 的應用程式介面(API)
• 允許應用程式處理超級用戶的問題
• ...

詳細的 changlog 請上上面的連結看。

下面是截錄於上述 onoff 網站 README.MD 的一段原文，：

Info

onoff has been tested on the BeagleBone (Ångström) and Raspberry Pi (Raspbian). The suitability of onoff for a particular Linux board is highly dependent on how GPIO interfaces are made available on that board. The document describing GPIO interfaces speaks of GPIO access conventions on Linux. The word conventions is important here. For example, onoff relies on sysfs files located at /sys/classes/gpio being available. However, these sysfs files for userspace GPIO are optional and may not be available on a particular platform.

As its name hopefully indicates, onoff can be used for turing things on and off at a "reasonable" frequency. It's not suitable for bit banging.

GPIOs on Linux are identified by unsigned integers. These are the numbers that should be passed to onoff functions.

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