Rock/LED

The Radxa Rock has 3 LEDs on board.

LED	GPIO ref.	GPIO number
Green	GPIO0_B4	172
Blue	GPIO0_B6	174
Red	GPIO0_B7	175

All are programmable using either LEDs class devices or GPIOs.

LEDs as class devices

On the latest kernel images (Ubuntu 14.04 server/desktop), the 3 LEDs are configured as LED class devices.

You can control them via /sys/class/leds/

Read the documentation for more information: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/leds/leds-class.txt

The default status of the three on board leds are:

• Red: On when there is power
• Green: Flash twice per second after the kernel booting, it's called heartbeat.
• Blue: Flash when the uSD card is reading/writing.

You can change the behaviour of each LED by using the echo command on their trigger property.

   root@radxa:~ # echo none > /sys/class/leds/red/trigger
   root@radxa:~ # echo default-on > /sys/class/leds/red/trigger
   root@radxa:~ # echo timer > /sys/class/leds/red/trigger
   root@radxa:~ # echo heartbeat > /sys/class/leds/red/trigger

You can use cat on the trigger property to list all the available values.

   root@radxa:~ # cat /sys/class/leds/red/trigger
   none test_ac-online test_battery-charging-or-full test_battery-charging test_battery-full test_battery-charging-blink-full-solid mmc0 mmc1 timer [heartbeat] backlight gpio default-on sleep rfkill0

Here is the list of current triggers:

• none
• test_ac-online
• test_battery-charging-or-full
• test_battery-charging
• test_battery-full
• test_battery-charging-blink-full-solid
• mmc0
• mmc1
• timer
• heartbeat
• backlight
• gpio
• default-on
• sleep
• rfkill0

LEDs as GPIOs

On the previous kernel images, the LEDs can be controlled as GPIOs.

Below is program in different languages to flash the green led on RR.

C

#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
  FILE *fp = fopen("/sys/class/gpio/export", "w");
  if( !fp )
  {
    printf("error open export file");
    return 1;
  }
  fprintf(fp, "%d", 172);
  fclose(fp);

  fp = fopen("/sys/class/gpio/gpio175/direction", "w");

  if( !fp )
  {
    printf("error open export file");
    return 1;
  }
  fprintf(fp, "%s", "out");
  fclose(fp);

  fp = fopen("/sys/class/gpio/gpio175/value", "w");

  if( !fp )
  {
    printf("error open export file");
    return 1;
  }
  fprintf(fp, "%d", 1);
 
}

Python

import time

def initpin(pinnum, mode):
  '''
  pinnum: pin number, eg. 172, 175 etc.
  mode: pin mode, valid values: in or out
  '''
  with open('/sys/class/gpio/export', 'w') as f:
    f.write(str(pinnum))

  with open('/sys/class/gpio/gpio' + str(pinnum) + '/direction', 'w') as f:
    f.write(str(mode))

def setpin(pinnum, value):
 
  with open('/sys/class/gpio/gpio' + str(pinnum) + '/value', 'w') as f:
    f.write(str(value))

if __name__ == '__main__':
  initpin(172, 'out')
  while True:
    setpin(172, 0)
    time.sleep(1)
    setpin(172, 1)
    time.sleep(1)

Shell

#!/bin/sh

# enable the gpio 172 -> green led
echo 172 > /sys/class/gpio/export

# set the direction to output
echo "out" > /sys/class/gpio/gpio172/direction
while true;
do
echo 0 > /sys/class/gpio/gpio172/value #led on
sleep 1
echo 1 > /sys/class/gpio/gpio172/value #led off
sleep 1
done