How to enable SPI on Raspbery PI and enable SPI module for Python

• Enable SPI on Raspberry PI


• Enable SPI for use in Python

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Enable SPI on Rasperry PI

From the command line type:

sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/raspi-blacklist.conf

You will then see

Comment out the blacklist spi-bcm2708 by prefixing it with #

 Press and hold 'CTRL' and press 'O',  then press 'ENTER', then close nano with 'CTRL' + 'X'

You will need to reboot the type:

sudo reboot

When it has restarted you can test if it is working by typing 'lsmod', this display kernel modules loaded, you can wee from the image below the spi_bcm2708 module is now loaded,

SPI is now enabled on the Raspberry PI

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 Enable SPI for use in Python

To enable SPI to be used in python you need to install the python module for interfacing with SPI.

You will need internet access so you can download the code from github.

git clone https://github.com/doceme/py-spidev

Once you have cloned the py-spidev you will need to change to the directory and use python to install  the module.

cd py-spidev
sudo python setup.py install

It is now possible to use import spidev more information can be found here http://tightdev.net/SpiDev_Doc.pdf

import spidev