[MMM-Buttons] Not recognizing button presses

[Jopyth]

@istepgueu Can I add the snippet and instructions to the readme?

[istepgueu]

@Jopyth Yes of course !

[Mar]

@istepgueu So my button registers properly but its not sending out a notification at all. There are no errors and my mirror loads correctly. I’m using the pin5:test code above.

[istepgueu]

@Mar you can you test with this code and capture log from firebug

{
                pin: 5,
                name: "power",
                longPress: {
                    title: "Power off",
                    message: "Keep pressed for 3 seconds to shut down",
                    imageFA: "power-off",
                    notification: "REMOTE_ACTION",
                    payload: {action: "SHUTDOWN"}
                },
                shortPress: undefined
            }

[Mar]

@istepgueu Alright now this is weird. I have my MM running via HDMI, and also opened it up in a Chrome tab on my laptop. When i press the buttong the inspector shows the log of the button and I get a popup on Chrome. But nothing is happening on the screen connected to the actual pi?

[istepgueu]

@Mar I suppose you have try

pm2 restart mm

[Mar]

@istepgueu Tried that, also tried a reboot. Doesnt work on the screen connected to the pi, but still does when i access via a browser. Also when i access via a browser I see this show up in the logs “Initialize button power on PIN 5” but this line doesnt show up when restarting MM and accessing via the HDMI.

[istepgueu]

@Mar Ok
1 - Your button is connected on PIN N°29 = GPIO 5 ?
2 - Which type of button do you have ? It’s a Push button (Button that returns alone) or a button who stay ?

Sorry for my english… i’m French :-)

[Mar]

@istepgueu thank you, and not a problem of course. i can understand you perfectly fine.

1. correct pin 29, bcm 5
2. i have this type of 4 pin button. press to activate and returns to initial position when you let go ()

[istepgueu]

@Mar Can you test this :

1 - Reboot your Pi
2 - If your mirror start automatically, stop it with “pm2 stop mm”
3 - Execute the button.py script (adapt to GPIO5)
4 - Start MM with “pm2 start mm”
5 - Test if it’s working.