Manipulating GPIO

The GPIO (general-purpose I/O) pins on a URI (or similar USB device) may be individually used as

either input or output pins. Currently the URI (because of the CM108-AH chip) only supports 2

usable GPIO pins (GPIO 1 and GPIO 4), plus one pin (labeled GPIO2, but is actually the 'HOOK' signal

on the CM-108AH chip) that may be used only for input. The old version of the URI and some other

devices that use the original CM-108A chip, have full access to the GPIO 2 signal also.

The upside to the CM-108AH is that if you are monitoring an external contact closure, the GPIO2 (HOOK)

input is internally pulled-up and de-bounced, so its perfect for such applications.

Chan_usbradio and chan_simpleusb supports configuration of the GPIO pins in the following manner

(from within the section of usbradio.conf that is for the desired device):

gpio1 = in ; in, out0 or out1

gpio4 = out0 ; in, out0 or out1

When you configure a GPIO pin, you can either designate it as 'in' (input), 'out0' (output with a default state of 'off'), or 'out1' (output with a default state of 'on').

It also supports configuration of pins 2-9 (output) and pins 10-13 and 15 (inputs) on a Parallel

Printer Port (if you happen to have one) in the following manner:

pp2 = out1 ; out0, out1 or ptt

pp10 = in ; in, cor or ctcss

When you configure an input pin (10,11,12,13 or 15), you can either designate it as 'in' (input),

'cor' (use as the 'cor' input), or 'ctcss' (use as the 'ctcss') input. If you choose 'cor' or

'ctcss', you also need to set the associated 'carrierfrom' or 'ctcssfrom' to either 'pp' (use the

associated input pin non-inverted) or 'ppinvert' (use the associated input pin inverted).

When you configure an output pin (2-9), you can either designate it as 'out0' (output with a default

state of 'off'), 'out1' (output with a default state of 'on'), or 'ptt' makes the PTT signal present

on it either non-inverted or inverted, depending on the 'invertptt' setting.

Pins 18-25 are ground, and all other pins are to be treated as no connection.

The condition of the input pins are made available via channel variables (e.g. RPT_URI_GPIO1,

RPT_URI_GPIO4, RPT_PP12, etc.) used by the Event Management Subsystem.

The output pins may be manipulated via the 'cop,61' (or 'cop,62') command (directly or through a DTMF

command) as follows:

61 - Send Message to USB to control GPIO pins (cop,61,GPIO1=0[,PP4=1].....)

62 - Same as above, without generating the 'complete' telemetry.

Use 0 or 1 to set the specified output to 0 or 1, or a number greater then 1 to specify how

many milliseconds minus 1 to invert its current state. For example, to pulse the bit for 500ms you

would use the value '501'(currently, specified time only significant in increments of 50ms). The

use of specifying a value of N+1 to indicate N milliseconds was done so that if, in the future,

the granulatity increases down to the millisecond level, a value of 1 ms could be specified.

For example, if you wanted to have a DTMF function (in this example *1234) that turned GPIO 1

on, you would specify the following in the [functions] section of the rpt.conf file:

1234 = cop,61,GPIO1=1 ; Turn on GPIO 1

Note: You must have app_rpt version 0.259 10/9/2010, and chan_usbradio also released at

that time, and for Parallel Printer Port support, you must have app_rpt version 0.267

10/23/2010, and chan_usbradio also released at that time.