adafruit-pca9685

This is a node.js library for driving the Adafruit 12 bit 16 channel PWM Driver based on the PCA9685 with the Raspberry Pi

Installation:

npm install adafruit-pca9685 (eventually - not yet published to npm). 

Optionally, get it from github and run npm install.

In your node.js file just require the library:

var makePwm = require( "adafruit-pca9685" );

This returns a constructor which you can now use to create a pwm instance using:

var pwm = makePwm();

The constructor can also be called with an argument map object. The map below shows defaults

 {
    "freq": "50",   // frequency of the device
    "correctionFactor": "1.0", // correction factor - fine tune the frequency 
    "address": "0x40", // i2c bus address
    "device": '/dev/i2c-1', // device name
    "debug": <null> // adds some debugging methods if set 
  }

The created pwm object has four methods

pwm.setFrequency(freq, correctionFactor);
pwm.setPwm(channel, on, off);
pwm.setPulse(channel, pulse);
pwm.stop();

A demo web application is in the demo folder

Remember: You must run your application as root

Acknowledgements

Some of the design for this module is is based on the Adafruit python Code Library

Here is a growing collection of libraries and example python scripts for controlling a variety of Adafruit electronics with a Raspberry Pi

In progress!

Adafruit invests time and resources providing this open source code, please support Adafruit and open-source hardware by purchasing products from Adafruit!

Written by Limor Fried, Kevin Townsend and Mikey Sklar for Adafruit Industries. BSD license, all text above must be included in any redistribution

To download, we suggest logging into your Pi with Internet accessibility and typing: git clone https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit-Raspberry-Pi-Python-Code.git

Additional inspiration came from the pi4j project and the implementation of adafruit-i2c-pwm-driver node module.