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A short recap, I need:   - 8 GPIO pins to select presets - 2 GPIO pins to select bank value - 1 GPIO pins to control a LED (for example, Raspberry OS and Plug up and running, or Raspberry shutting down).   Raspberry pin -  BCM pin   01 - 3v3 02 - 5v 03 - gpio02 04 - 5v 05 - gpio03 06 - gnd 07 - gpio04 08 - gpio14 09 - gnd 10 - gpio15 11 - gpio17 12 - gpio18 13 - gpio27 14 - gnd 15 - gpio22 16 - gpio23 17 - 3v3 18 - gpio24 19 - gpio10 20 - gnd 21 - gpio09 22 - gpio25 23 - gpio11 24 - gpio08 25 - gnd 26 - gpio07 27 - ID_SD 28 - ID_SC 29 - gpio05 30 - gnd 31 - gpio06 32 - gpio...

Finding all the packages needed for the compilation on my raspberry pios 11 took less time than ubuntu. To compile Plug from source code I needed to install the following packages: apt-get install cmake libusb-1.0-0-dev googletest qtbase5-dev qtchooser qt5-qmake qtbase5-dev-tools libgmock-dev  apt suggests to install also cmake-doc ninka-build  I got the source code from GitHub: wget  https://github.com/offa/plug/ archive/refs/heads/master.zip Then I unzipped the code and cd to the source folder; from source folder I run the following commands: mkdir build && cd build  cmake ..  make  make unittest  make install Now I can edit and modify the original source code. Please note: the compilation process required more time on Raspberry than on my i5 laptop

I'm not a developer and the last time I compiled a C source code was in the 90's on Commodore Amiga, using GCC.  Finding all the packages needed for the compilation on my Ubuntu 21.10 laptop took a long time and I had to understand how CMakefile works, but in the end I succeded! To compile Plug from source code I needed to install some packages: apt-get install unzip cmake libusb-1.0-0-dev build-essential pkg-config googletest qtbase5-dev qtchooser qt5-qmake qtbase5-dev-tools libgmock-dev I got the source code from GitHub: wget  https://github.com/offa/plug/ archive/refs/heads/master.zip Then I unzipped the code and cd to the source folder; from source folder I run the following commands: mkdir build && cd build cmake .. make make unittest make install When the compilation completed, I run the executable: plug

Fender Mustang amplifiers are digital guitar amplifiers. Customers can connect the amplifier to PC via USB port and control settings using the Fender FUSE application for Windows. A couple of months ago, I bought a used Mustang v1 amplifier on ebay for only 60€. On March 2020, Fender dropped official support for FUSE (and I also prefer to use Linux) so I did a little internet search and found an alternative open source software, "Plug". https://github.com/offa/plug I tried Plug on Ubuntu laptop and It worked. But I didn't want to take a laptop with me to play guitar, so I decided to  try Plug on a small Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W and it worked fine. My Mustang amplifier can store 24 presets (8 presets, 3 banks), but the Fender footswitch allows to select only 2 presets. It would be nice to select all of them using a footswitch instead of a PC keyboard...