Control the servo through the command line

Now that our servo is connected to our Raspberry Pi, let's write some code at the command line to control it. We will use the Raspberry Pi Python library GPIO Zero to do this.

Load up Thonny and click on Shell:

Type the following in the shell:

from gpiozero import Servo

After a short delay, the cursor should return. What we have done here is load the servo object from gpiozero into memory. We will assign pin GPIO 17 with the following statement:

servo = Servo(17)

We will now move the servo motor to the minimum (min) position. Type the following into the command line:

servo.min()

You should hear the servo motor moving, and the needle will go to its farthest position (if it is not already there).

Let's move the servo motor to the maximum ( max) position with the following command:

servo.max()

Now, move the servo to the middle...