{"id":12498,"date":"2015-05-01T11:45:24","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T10:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12498"},"modified":"2015-05-01T09:31:53","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T08:31:53","slug":"remote-control-raspberry-pi-gpio-with-messaging-queues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12498","title":{"rendered":"Remote control Raspberry Pi GPIO with messaging queues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/512af03fe4b03f854eedc2ed\/t\/54cff0a6e4b0b57aa332113c\/1422913707041\/?format=750w\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"380\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Messaging queues are all the rage nowadays, what with being the backbone for a lot of Internet of Things projects and concepts. In <a href=\"http:\/\/brianhines.me\/posts\/2015\/2\/2\/using-pi-control-service-for-gpio\" target=\"_blank\">his blog post<\/a>, Brian Hines explains how to use a library he wrote called pi-control-service together with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/brianhines.me\/posts\/2015\/2\/2\/using-pi-control-service-for-gpio#\">RabbitMQ<\/a>\u00a0to send and receive messages and control the GPIO pins with them. <a href=\"http:\/\/brianhines.me\/posts\/2015\/2\/2\/using-pi-control-service-for-gpio\" target=\"_blank\">Read more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Messaging queues are all the rage nowadays, what with being the backbone for a lot of Internet of Things projects and concepts. 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