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Raspberry Pi 5 remote GPIO

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1 report: 1 asks for support.

Reported with 1 integration: Raspberry Pi Remote GPIO.

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IntegrationIn Home AssistantIn Apple HomeWhat they saidSource
Raspberry Pi Remote GPIORequestedOld gpiozero and pigpio do not run on Pi 5; update requested
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The problem Gpiozero is too old for modern RaspberryPi. The Pi5 needs at least version 2 https://github.com/home-assistant/core/blob/ede6e0180863bca0d382192b117a0fd1752774b4/requirements_all.txt#L955 RPi.gpio and pigpio are now deprecated as such on RaspberryPi since they can not run on Pi5 and probably any future Pi using the RP1 southbridge style setup. They need to use Linux built in gpio features etc. Gpiozero has been updated with v2 to use lgpio for the Pi5 and by default. (shipped with PiOS Bookworm for the record) It's going to be pretty much the same for most old Pi specific tools …

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Issue #108088 · 2024-01

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Identifiers

BrandRaspberry Pi
Model5
CategoryButtons and Remotes