Jul 262014
 
Raspberry Pi GPIO Pinouts, all models

Having brought my RPi.GPIO documentation (almost) up-to-date with the previous blog post, I realised it was time to update my RPi.GPIO Quick Reference ‘cheat sheet’ as well. It’s quite a useful reference. Page 1 gives you the basic RPi.GPIO commands and usage. I like to take one of these the Jams in case someone needs help and I can’t remember the necessary commands. Page 2 has a Raspberry Pi GPIO pinout diagram for all versions (except compute module). This part has been updated to add the pinouts for the B+ (and A+). Page 3 gives a list of links to all 13 of my RPi.GPIO tutorial pages (including yesterday’s).

I had to redo parts of it from scratch because I couldn’t find the main source file. But it didn’t take too long.

The download link is the same as the old one…

https://raspi.tv/download/RPi.GPIO-Cheat-Sheet.pdf

Here’s what page 1 looks like…

# RPi.GPIO Basics cheat sheet - Don't try to run this. It'll fail!
# Alex Eames https://raspi.tv
# https://raspi.tv/?p=4320

# RPi.GPIO Official Documentation 
# http://sourceforge.net/p/raspberry-gpio-python/wiki/Home/

import RPi.GPIO as GPIO              # import RPi.GPIO module  

# choose BOARD or BCM
GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BCM)               # BCM for GPIO numbering
GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BOARD)             # BOARD for P1 pin numbering

# Set up Inputs
GPIO.setup(port_or_pin, GPIO.IN)     # set port/pin as an input
GPIO.setup(port_or_pin, GPIO.IN,  pull_up_down=GPIO.PUD_DOWN) # input with pull-down
GPIO.setup(port_or_pin, GPIO.IN,  pull_up_down=GPIO.PUD_UP)   # input with pull-up 

# Set up Outputs
GPIO.setup(port_or_pin, GPIO.OUT)               # set port/pin as an output   
GPIO.setup(port_or_pin, GPIO.OUT, initial=1)    # set initial value option (1 or 0)

# Switch Outputs
GPIO.output(port_or_pin, 1)     # set an output port/pin value to 1/GPIO.HIGH/True  
GPIO.output(port_or_pin, 0)     # set an output port/pin value to 0/GPIO.LOW/False  

# Read status of inputs OR outputs
i = GPIO.input(port_or_pin)     # read status of pin/port and assign to variable i
if GPIO.input(port_or_pin):     # use input status directly in program logic

# Clean up on exit
GPIO.cleanup()

# What Raspberry Pi revision are we running?
GPIO.RPI_REVISION     #  0 = Compute Module, 1 = Rev 1, 2 = Rev 2, 3 = Model B+

# What version of RPi.GPIO are we running?
GPIO.VERSION      

# What Python version are we running?
import sys; sys.version

Page 2 is the pinouts for all Pi models

Raspberry Pi GPIO Pinouts, all models

Raspberry Pi GPIO Pinouts, all models

Page 3 is an Index of Tutorial Links

RPi.GPIO Basics series

  1. How to check what RPi.GPIO version you have
  2. How to check what Raspberry Pi board Revision you have
  3. How to Exit GPIO programs cleanly, avoid warnings and protect your Pi
  4. Setting up RPi.GPIO, numbering systems and inputs
  5. Setting up and using outputs with RPi.GPIO
  6. Using inputs and outputs at the same time with RPi.GPIO, and pull-ups/pull-downs
  7. RPi.GPIO cheat sheet

RPi.GPIO more advanced

Interrupts (needs RPi.GPIO 0.5.2+)

Software PWM

From 0.5.2a onwards, RPi.GPIO has software PWM. Below are two links. One describes its basic usage and the other is a practical application for dimming LEDs and controlling motor speed.

Download Link

Hope this is useful for you.
The download here https://raspi.tv/download/RPi.GPIO-Cheat-Sheet.pdf

RasPiO® GPIO Reference Aids

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  1. Portsplus port ID board
  2. GPIO Ruler with RPi.GPIO code
  3. GPIO Zero Ruler with GPIO Zero code

  26 Responses to “RPi.GPIO Quick Reference updated for Raspberry Pi B+, A+ and Pi2B”

  1. Small errors in the B+ Alternative Functions pinout:
    pin36 (GPIO16) is CE2_1
    pin38 (GPIO20) is MOSI_1
    (dunno if anyone’s developed a driver for SPI1 yet though?)

    PWM0 is available on GPIO12 and GPIO18 (pins 32 and 12)
    PWM1 is available on GPIO13 and GPIO19 (pins 33 and 35)

    The RPi.GPIO documentation link is now http://sourceforge.net/p/raspberry-gpio-python/wiki/Home/

    Possibly worth mentioning that GPIO.RPI_REVISION reports 0 for the Compute Module and 3 for the Model B+ ? http://sourceforge.net/p/raspberry-gpio-python/code/ci/default/tree/source/cpuinfo.c#l51

    • Thanks Andrew I’ve corrected the spi errors. (Dunno how that happened. Must’ve been a silly error.)
      I’ve left the PWM.
      Will update the Revision output on the tutorials later. :)

      • You’ve updated the documentation link in the PDF, but not in https://raspi.tv/download/rpigpio.txt ;-)

        IMHO it’s worth adding at least one other PWM label to indicate that the Model B+ has two PWM channels on the header, whereas the Model B only has one PWM available.

        • OK. I did wonder what you were referring to. I hadn’t changed the .txt file at all (have now) :)
          Will get to the PWM thing. Wanted a quick fix to correct the errors as I’ve already worked too hard this week and need to switch off the computer and go and have a life ;)

          As far as I understand it though, the BCM only has 2 PWM channels, but both can be used if you’re not using analog sound?

          • “As far as I understand it though, the BCM only has 2 PWM channels, but both can be used if you’re not using analog sound?”

            Yep, that’s the way I understand it too. I’ve never actively used PWM myself! (apart from “by default” when using analogue audio)

            Enjoy the downtime :)

  2. Please do not consider this criticism — your efforts are more than worthy.

    Are there not some other useful pins, at least in Rev 2. Particularly, but not limited to the headers P5, which contains 4 GPIO pins as well as some power and ground pins. Header P6 also provides for a reset.

    Specific References:

    http://elinux.org/RPi_Low-level_peripherals#P5_header
    http://elinux.org/RPi_Low-level_peripherals#P6_header

    General Reference:
    http://elinux.org/RPi_Low-level_peripherals#General_Purpose_Input.2FOutput_.28GPIO.29

    • Yes but most people don’t solder additional headers to their pi, so I’m only really bothered about documenting the main header.

      As it happens, I’m the only person I know who has actually soldered both P5 and P6 headers on a Raspberry Pi.

      https://raspi.tv/tag/solder-a-p6-header-on-raspberry-pi
      https://raspi.tv/2013/the-leaning-header-of-pi5a-how-best-to-solder-a-header-on-p5

      I did it just to try them out and then never used them again. There is only one add-on board I know about for the rev 2 that uses the P5 header (Wolfson audio card). The pins are generally so un-utilised that I’m going for the ‘thick end of the wedge’ here. I expect the new B+ design will get people using more of the pins.

      • “As it happens, I’m the only person I know who has actually soldered both P5 and P6 headers on a Raspberry Pi.”

        Well, you know me as well https://raspi.tv/2013/the-leaning-header-of-pi5a-how-best-to-solder-a-header-on-p5#comment-27353 ;-P
        I’ve actively used the P6 reset header quite a few times, but like you the P5 header was more of a “let’s see if it works” thing. And I got a IQ Audio DAC a while ago (again, just for experimentation) which comes with a female header you need to solder onto P5.

        • I knew you’d done P5. I remember you showed me your special push-fit connector at CamJam May 2013, but didn’t know you’d done P6 as well.

          I don’t normally bother with P6 header now. If I need a reset (rare) I just short it with tweezers. :)

          • Well now you do know. I’m not expecting a skills badge though ;)

            For one of the applications I’m working on it’s useful for one Pi to be able to able to hard-reset a second Pi if it stops responding to commands sent over the serial port (which is a pretty good indication it’s crashed / locked up).

  3. […] few weeks ago I blogged about RPi.GPIO updates for the model B and updated my RPi.GPIO documentation and quick reference sheets. But there was one feature I held back on because I needed a bit more time to mess about with it. […]

  4. Thank you for creating this. Are you going to now add the CM to it ?

  5. so, you can change inputs to outputs on the GPIO using software?!?!?
    (palm, apply directly to the forehead)…i have so much to learn.

  6. Hi,
    I have a question, which one of PWM1 GPIO (13 or 19) should I use?
    Thx

  7. This is a very awesome reference guide, I’m using it for my class. Thank you!

  8. Hi Alex – could you update your 40-pin header to show the SDIO bus (4 bit mode on 22-27, 1-bit mode on 22-25), which recent (> May 2015) firmwares & drivers have made available. This bus has decent (for the Pi) ~200Mbps bandwidth, useful to attach extra SD card storage or SDIO peripherals eg WiFi. That would leave fewer yellow pins, but by showing it it might help designers of future HATs to keep off SDIO territory unless absolutely essential.

    • Oooh, even I wasn’t aware of that – I must be falling behind ;-) I guess that must be using the SD1_* signals on http://elinux.org/RPi_BCM2835_GPIOs ?

      AFAIK Alex made his diagrams for home-user GPIO-tinkerer hobbyists though, not HAT-designers… :)

      • Yes, those pins. The 2835/6 contain two peripherals which support SD cards – one which has lain dormant until PhilE wrote a driver for it, namely the sdhost peripheral, which is latterly providing SD card duties for the Pi. The previously used peripheral, the emmc block from Arasan has been retired to SDIO duties available on GPIOs 22-27.

        The “get off my lawn” message needs to get out there somehow! I’m a tinkerer, doesn’t stop me designing my own SDIO !HAT though, inspired by this brilliant piece of hacking https://hackaday.io/project/8678-rpi-wifi

        • “inspired by this brilliant piece of hacking…”

          Ah, that’s rather excellent! Will have to get some modules and try that :-)

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