Why do we need to export GPIOs? Why isn't this done in the code? about node-wiegand HOT 4 OPEN

@8483 You can see this, or you can change epoll to onoff.

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@bestpika Still doesn't answer the question why this is not a part of the code?

Why does it have to be done via the terminal, when the GPIOs can be initialized via code, like you said in onoff?

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Because the library (epoll) didn't write it.
Another library (onoff, same author) write it.
Or you can use my modified version.
It changes the library from epoll to onoff.

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Sorry for the late reply (> 1yr). So this was written with a custom pi HAT in mind, which had an EEPROM that did this stuff for you. There are other situations where you may already be doing this in a startup script because your node app is decoupled from the hardware setup.

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