Updates to recognise Raspberry Pi 500/500+
Sunday, 28 September 2025
Tuesday, 29 April 2025
HiPi Modules 0.93 Released
Updated for 16GB Raspberry Pi 5
HiPi::Device::GPIO ( sysfs gpio interface ) fixed for latest gpiochip handling
Thursday, 28 March 2024
HiPi Modules 0.92 Released
Resolves issues in version 0.91 with some Raspberry Pi versions.
( Model A, Model B, Model A Plus, Model B Plus, Zero, Zero W )
Sunday, 25 February 2024
HiPi Modules 0.91 Released
Updated for latest Raspberry Pi OS
Saturday, 11 November 2023
HiPi Modules 0.90 Released
Supports Raspberry Pi 5
Supports Debian 12 - Bookworm
Refactored OpenThings / Energenie implementation
- refactored encoding / decoding OpenThings message data
- OpenThings implementation now supports communication
with custom devices.
- Added 'Float' OpenThings value type
Refactored HopeRFM69 maximum power settings
Refactored negative temperature calculation in HiPi::Interface::MPL3115A2
armhf and arm64 packages for Bookworm and Bullseye are available from the installation page
Sunday, 19 February 2023
HiPi Modules 0.88 Released
armhf and arm64 packages for Bullseye and Buster are available from the installation page
HiPi::BCM2835 version 0.66 released
Module HiPi::BCM2835 updated with lib bcm2835 1.71.
32 bit and 64 bit packages for Bullseye and Buster available at http://hipi.znix.com/archive/bcm2835.html
Saturday, 30 October 2021
HiPi Modules 0.86 Released
- Updated for the Raspberry Pi Zero 2
Saturday, 28 November 2020
HiPi Modules 0.85 Released
- Updated for the Raspberry Pi 400.
- HiPi::Interface::Seesaw provides an interface to the Adafruit ATSAMD09 Breakout with seesaw.
This breakout provides I2C access to PWM and ADC pins, a Neopixel driver and additional gpio pins with interrupts. - The pre-built Debian package install is now provided in both 32-bit armhf and 64-bit arm64 Raspberry Pi OS versions.
Saturday, 20 June 2020
HiPi Modules 0.84 Released
Monday, 15 June 2020
HiPi Modules 0.82 Released
Sunday, 7 June 2020
HiPi Modules 0.81 Released
Monday, 22 July 2019
HiPi Modules 0.80 Released
Adjusted default SPI speed settings for MFRC522 near field reader.
Monday, 15 July 2019
HiPi Modules 0.79 Released
On the RPI 4, current Pull Up/Down settings for gpio pins can now be retrieved.
There is also a new release of HiPi::BCM2835 updated for new peripheral addresses in the RPI 4 and Pull Up / Pull Down changes.
Thursday, 27 June 2019
HiPi Modules 0.78 Released
Pre-built deb packages are now for Rasbpian Buster.
Thursday, 2 May 2019
HiPi Modules 0.77 Released
HiPi::Interface::MFRC522 supports read and write for MiFare Classic 1K and 4K tags with both 4 byte and 7 byte UIDS.
The UID can be read for any 13.56 Mhz ISO/IEC 14443-4 compliant tag.
Wednesday, 1 May 2019
Sunday, 14 April 2019
HiPi Modules 0.75 Released
Also added an interface to the Huawei E3531 mobile USB stick that allows SMS communication and data connection management.
Tuesday, 20 November 2018
HiPi Modules 0.74 Released
Documentation at HiPi::Interface::MAX7219LEDStrip
Sunday, 18 November 2018
HiPi Modules 0.73 Released
Also in this release is module HiPi::Interface::ZeroSeg that provides support for The Pi Hut ZeroSeg Hat.
