Custom Component issue - Energenie Pi-Mote (RPi.GPIO import error)

Installation Home Assistant OS
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Hi all,

I have been trying to create a custom component which will talk to my Energenie sockets via the Pi-mote control board on the Raspberry Pi. (The board).

This board requires some Python scripting in order to talk to the sockets via the Pi’s GPIO pins. I am having trouble importing the RPI-GPIO module. Here is the error in the logs:

2018-06-04 14:41:24 ERROR (SyncWorker_4) [homeassistant.util.package] Unable to install package RPi.GPIO==0.6.3: Command "/usr/bin/python3 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-a01_btne/RPi.GPIO/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-x3xokudw-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --prefix  --compile --user --prefix=" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-a01_btne/RPi.GPIO/
2018-06-04 14:41:24 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.requirements] Not initializing switch.energenie_switcher because could not install requirement RPi.GPIO==0.6.3

I am running Hassio v0.70.1 on a Raspberry Pi Model B.

Here is a snippet of my custom component:

"""
Support for Energenie pi hat remote
"""
import logging
import voluptuous as vol

from homeassistant.components.switch import (SwitchDevice, PLATFORM_SCHEMA)
from homeassistant.const import CONF_NAME
import homeassistant.helpers.config_validation as cv

REQUIREMENTS = ['RPi.GPIO==0.6.3']

CONF_SOCKET = 'socket'
DEFAULT_NAME = 'Energenie Switch'

_LOGGER = logging.getLogger(__name__)

PLATFORM_SCHEMA = PLATFORM_SCHEMA.extend({
    vol.Required(CONF_NAME): cv.string,
    vol.Required(CONF_SOCKET): cv.string
})


def setup_platform(hass, config, add_devices, discovery_info=None):
    """setup the switch"""
    import RPi.GPIO as GPIO
    _LOGGER.info('IMPORTED GPIO')

    socket = config.get(CONF_SOCKET)
    socket_name = config.get(CONF_NAME)

    print(config)

    add_devices([EnergenieSwitch(socket, socket_name)])
    _LOGGER.info('added devices now......')

And my .yaml:

platform: energenie_switcher
name: 'Socket 1 - Speakers'
socket: 1

Any advice on this error? I may have errors in my component but to me that error is just in relation to the Requirements installation.

Thanks,
Dan

3

Anyone have any insight on this? Half of my IoT devices are rendered unusable if I cannot talk to the Pi-mote module.

Has anyone gotten a Python script that imports RPi.GPIO working?

4

I may be stating the obvious. but you have looked at how the gpio component does it?

5

Did you ever make any progress with your hassio component for the pimote?