https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/button-shim
Five tactile push buttons and one super-bright RGB LED indicator, ideal for adding extra input and visual notifications to your Raspberry Pi alongside most other HATs and pHATs!
Installing
Full install (recommended):
We've created an easy installation script that will install all pre-requisites and get your Buttom SHIM.
up and running with minimal efforts. To run it, fire up Terminal which you'll find in Menu -> Accessories -> Terminal
on your Raspberry Pi desktop, as illustrated below:
![Finding the terminal](http://get.pimoroni.com/resources/github-repo-terminal.png)
In the new terminal window type the command exactly as it appears below (check for typos) and follow the on-screen instructions:
curl https://get.pimoroni.com/buttonshim | bash
Alternatively, on Raspbian, you can download the pimoroni-dashboard
and install your product by browsing to the relevant entry:
sudo apt-get install pimoroni
(you will find the Dashboard under 'Accessories' too, in the Pi menu - or just run pimoroni-dashboard
at the command line)
If you choose to download examples you'll find them in /home/pi/Pimoroni/buttonshim/
.
Manual install:
Library install for Python 3:
on Raspbian:
sudo apt-get install python3-buttonshim
other environments:
sudo pip3 install buttonshim
Library install for Python 2:
on Raspbian:
sudo apt-get install python-buttonshim
other environments:
sudo pip2 install buttonshim
Development:
If you want to contribute, or like living on the edge of your seat by having the latest code, you should clone this repository, cd
to the library directory, and run:
sudo python3 setup.py install
(or sudo python setup.py install
whichever your primary Python environment may be)
Documentation & Support
Unofficial / Third-party libraries