EdgeX Device GPIO is a device service for connecting GPIO devices to EdgeX.
** Functionality **
This device service uses sysfs ABI (default) or chardev ABI (experiment) to control GPIO devices For a connected GPIO device, update the configuration files, and then start to read or write data from GPIO device
Enable snaps on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and install edgex-device-gpio
Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.
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The packages for RHEL 8 and RHEL 7 are in each distribution’s respective Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository. The instructions for adding this repository diverge slightly between RHEL 8 and RHEL 7, which is why they’re listed separately below.
The EPEL repository can be added to RHEL 8 with the following command: