[GUIDE] WiringPi and WiringPi-Python installation in a simple way

[joshua.yang]

Hi all.

I know some people use WiringPi and its Python wrapper for their embedded projects.

But it would make us quite bothered to use because it needs self-building on the development device.

So we had to do like,
Cloning WiringPi from Git repository, moving to that directory, trying to build that, oh I almost forgot, I need some build packages. Downloading the packages then trying again.
Too inconvenient.

So we were going to try to publish those packages on the proper/access-convenient channel. And we just did it.
Now you can install WiringPi and WiringPi-Python using apt and pip.

Here is the guide.

- WiringPi
We've uploaded WiringPi onto our Ubuntu Launchpad so that you can register our PPA using add-apt-repository and download that using apt.
Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~hardkernel/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

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sudo apt install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hardkernel/ppa
sudo apt update
sudo apt install odroid-wiringpi

If you want to develop with its libraries, install the extra packages.

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sudo apt install libwiringpi-dev libwiringpi2

- WIringPi Python Wrapper
I've uploaded our WIringPi Python wrapper onto my PyPI account so that you can download using pip.
PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/odroid-wiringpi/

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sudo apt install python python3 python-pip python3-pip
 
# Python 2
sudo python -m pip install odroid-wiringpi
# Python 3
sudo python3 -m pip install odroid-wiringpi

Just one thing about using this new WiringPi Python wrapper is that I changed module name from wiringpi to odroid-wiringpi to avoid unforeseen conflicts.
So, from the latest version (2.44.4.0), we should import the module like the below.

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import odroid-wiringpi as wpi

You still can build those projects yourself on your ODROID.
I have updated our Wiki page too: https://wiki.odroid.com/odroid-n2/appli ... o/wiringpi

Have fun with our WiringPi and its Python wrapper.
Any feedback would be welcomed.