Python Wiegand reader on Raspberry PI

Using GPIO you can read the key presses and card codes from a keypad with the Wiegand protocol.

Requirements

• Raspberry PI OS
• WiringPI

Wiring

Install

pip install pywiegand

Usage

>>> from  pywiegand import WiegandReader
>>> wr = WiegandReader(6, 5)
# reading card
>>> wr.read()
'560019750914'

# reading keys
>>> wr.read()
['0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', '10', '#']

Building

Do the following steps on the target device to build the package.

1. Install WiringPI https://github.com/wiringPi/WiringPi/
2. Install Python3 and poetry https://python-poetry.org/
3. Clone the repository
4. Run poetry build
5. Install the package with pip install dist/pywiegand-<version>.tar.gz