Raspberry pi 4 controle GPIO with java

Question

I want to controle a 16*2 lcd display on my raspberry pi4 with java. The problem is that Pi4J - the solution to modify the gpios with java is not updated to pi4. Is there another solution? This error occures when I start the programm:

pi@raspberrypi:~/desktop/gpio $ sudo ./start.sh

<--Pi4J--> GPIO Control Example ... started. Maista Unable to determine hardware version. I see: Hardware : BCM2711 ,

• expecting BCM2708 or BCM2709. If this is a genuine Raspberry Pi then please report this to [email protected]. If this is not a Raspberry Pi then you are on your own as wiringPi is designed to support the Raspberry Pi ONLY.

Answer 1

Pi4J uses WiringPi to control the GPIOs. So please update it to version 2.52 as this one supports the Raspberry Pi 4, see http://wiringpi.com/wiringpi-updated-to-2-52-for-the-raspberry-pi-4b/

$ gpio -v
gpio version: 2.50
$ cd /tmp
$ wget https://project-downloads.drogon.net/wiringpi-latest.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i wiringpi-latest.deb
$ gpio -v
gpio version: 2.52

You can find a full java+pi4j+lcd example on my blog on https://webtechie.be/post/2020-01-26-openweathermap-forecast-on-lcd-with-raspberry-pi-java-and-pi4j/