Merge pull request #714 from makermelissa/missing-bbio

Add better error message and explicity add to setup
adafruit · Sep 15, 2023 · fe8a29e · fe8a29e
2 parents 5138b16 + 0f15234
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diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
@@ -35,6 +35,10 @@
         or b"brcm,bcm2711" in compat
     ):
         board_reqs = ["RPi.GPIO", "rpi_ws281x>=4.0.0", "sysv_ipc>=1.1.0"]
+    if (
+        b"ti,am335x" in compat
+    ):  # BeagleBone Black, Green, PocketBeagle, BeagleBone AI, etc.
+        board_reqs = ["Adafruit_BBIO"]
 
 setup(
     name="Adafruit-Blinka",

diff --git a/src/adafruit_blinka/microcontroller/am335x/pin.py b/src/adafruit_blinka/microcontroller/am335x/pin.py
@@ -2,7 +2,13 @@
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
 """AM335x pin names"""
-from Adafruit_BBIO import GPIO
+try:
+    from Adafruit_BBIO import GPIO
+except ImportError as error:
+    raise RuntimeError(
+        "The library 'Adafruit_BBIO' was not found. To install, try typing: "
+        "pip install Adafruit_BBIO"
+    ) from error
 
 
 class Pin: