P8_13 is working for me as a PWM output, and I am using the Adafruit BBIO 
library.   I’m using the latest image with LXQT (Debian 9.9 I believe).
Randy

On Thursday, January 14, 2021 at 8:28:34 PM UTC-6 [email protected] wrote:

> OK, I rechecked and only Pin 8_13 is not working; the other three PWM pins 
> are good using Adafruit.PWM.  Pin 8_13 does respond to GPIO.HIGH and 
> GPIO.LOW, so I don’t think I’ve damaged the hardware.  Who knows what I 
> have managed to do to the /sys/class files.  If it doesn’t clear up on 
> restart, I will reinstall the image.  Of course 8_13 is the one I was 
> planning to use, but I can just as well wire something to 8_19 for now.
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> -Steve
>   
>
> On Jan 14, 2021, at 8:00 PM, jonnymo <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> The SpreadSheet at the following link will show you which pins on the BB 
> Black can be set for PWM.
>
>
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fE-AsDZvJ-bBwzNBj1_sPDrutvEvsmARqFwvbw_HkrE/edit#gid=1518010293
>
> As far as the Adafruit BBIO libs, have you gone through the example at the 
> Adafruit site?
>
> https://learn.adafruit.com/setting-up-io-python-library-on-beaglebone-black/pwm
>
> If this is not working, could you provide any errors or output of the 
> issue you are seeing?
>
> The output of the following might be helpful:
> *   /opt/scripts/tools/version.sh*  
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jon
>  
>
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 4:42 PM Steve Lentz <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Black.  BeagleBoard.org <http://beagleboard.org/> Debian Buster IoT 
>> Image 2020-04-06.
>>
>> FWIW, the Adafruit libraries let me control the pins as GPIO.
>>
>>
>> TY,
>> -Steve
>>
>> On Jan 14, 2021, at 7:02 PM, jonnymo <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Which BeagleBoard are you using?
>>
>> Jon
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 2:51 PM [email protected] <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> OK, I want to generate a PWM signal to send to a motor controller.  This 
>>> is simply to communicate the desired speed, the motor controller will do 
>>> all the heavy lifting.  
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, the Adafruit_BBIO libraries appear broken and bonescript 
>>> doesn't seem any better.
>>>
>>> After digging through Google results I found myself in /sys/class/pwm/ 
>>> using echo to write values into various files and through pure dumb luck 
>>> was able to get a 2 Khz square wave up on a scope and change its duty 
>>> cycle.  So at least my set up seems to be working at some level.  
>>>
>>> However, I feel I am missing a bunch of information. Which pwmchip 
>>> exports to which pwm-X:X and corresponds to which pin?  "duty_cycle" is not 
>>> really duty cycle, it is nanoseconds high.  I can't change the period, even 
>>> to sensible values like 250000 or 1000000.  Some of the information on 
>>> Stack Exchange is worrying, will pwm-4:0 always correspond to P9_14 or can 
>>> this change on boot?   
>>>
>>> Is there a way to restore the functionality of the Adafruit BBIO 
>>> libraries, short of waiting for an update?  I did pip3 install -U.  
>>> Requirement already satisfied: Adafruit_BBIO in 
>>> /usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages (1.2.0)
>>>
>>> If that's not possible, is there any documentation on how the 
>>> /sys/class/pwm is intended to function?
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>> -Steve Lentz
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