PWM (hard) orange pi PC (H3) example blinky OK

openrapp · Published in 2016-12-18 02:02:18

jbrooks replied at 2016-6-24 14:43
Some findings to pass on:

WiringOP does not appear to have working PWM support at this time. I te ...

Just as a note to your findings, to clarify, because this is a post about PWM.
Frequency of the pulse, or read/write speed doesn't matter on PWM, because PWM is a fixed frequency modulation.

To control your circuit, you change the width of the pulse, not the frequency. (Pulse Width Modulation.)

Perhaps, for precision, the read/write speed is relevant, but, in general, PWM is "slow" (works on relative low frequencies in terms of a modern CPU capabilities.)

So if you are working on a PWM project with OPi, the performance of the GPIO is mostly irrelevant.

darkman · Published in 2016-12-29 00:23:49

Did any of you that was testing PWM have kernel module that provides /dev/pwm .. I can load module but I cannot get dev to show.

Younes_Thbaet · Published in 2019-10-4 00:10:32

@snowbody
I am using opi one with (Armbian_5.90_Ubuntu_bionic_4.19.57) image. and used the uart0 pins for hardware pwm but the output pwm was around 330mvnot 3.3v.

what could be the problem!?

thanks,

KevKos · Published in 2023-4-23 16:50:56

@Snowbody I cannot download the attached zip file. Is it possible to reupload?