having trouble with the mcp230xx library and python.

[IslandMedic]

I am having some troubles reading an input. A little back ground. I have the early version of Pi. I have two gpio extender chips wired up. I have the i2c, and mcp230xx file in the same directory as the script you see below. I am able to turn off and on LED lights on pins 5,6,7 on chip 1 at address 20 just fine. When I put a selector switch to pull pins 8,9,10 on chip 2 @ address 21 the if statements don't catch and only the else statement gets run. When I print out the values of the 3 input pins I get 256,512 and 1024 respectively. When I change the inputs by applying 3.3v to the pins the print out doesn't change.

Some other issues I ran into was that when I did mcp0.config(7, OUTPUT) the code said that OUTPUT was not defined. So I used the 0 instead. The other thing that happens is when I try to use the mcp1.config(8, INPUT) I get input not defined. When I try mcp1.config(8, 1) I get the error pin 8 not set to input. So I used the pullup function and that seemed to not generate any errors but it also doesn't seem to work properly.

thanks for any help or advice. this is not production code. I am just trying to get my feet wet with how to use the code.

Brad

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#!/usr/bin/python
from Adafruit_MCP230xx import Adafruit_MCP230XX

mcp0 = Adafruit_MCP230XX(busnum = 0, address = 0x20, num_gpios = 16)
mcp1 = Adafruit_MCP230XX(busnum = 0, address = 0x21, num_gpios = 16)

mcp0.config(7, 0)
mcp0.config(6, 0)
mcp0.config(5, 0)

mcp1.pullup(8,0)
mcp1.pullup(9,0)
mcp1.pullup(10,0)

print mcp1.input(8)
print mcp1.input(9)
print mcp1.input(10)


while (True):
    if mcp1.input(8) == 1:
        mcp0.output(7, 0)
        mcp0.output(6, 1) 
        mcp0.output(5, 0)
    elif mcp1.input(9) == 1:
        mcp0.output(7, 0)
        mcp0.output(6, 1) 
        mcp0.output(5, 0)
    else:
        mcp0.output(7, 0) 
        mcp0.output(6, 0) 
        mcp0.output(5, 0)




[tldr]

i think you want mcp0.OUTPUT and mcp1.INPUT.

are you pulling a0, (pin 15), high on the second mcp23017?

[adafruit_support_rick]

The pullup function is the right way to configure a pin as input. However, you are using a value argument of 0, which will NOT enable the pullup. Does your circuit expect the pullup to be enabled?