Need button press and long press to do different things

Python
1

How do I make a button do different things based on how long the button is pressed? See the code below, kind of explains what I need to figure out.

from gpiozero import Button, LED
from signal import pause
from time import sleep
import time

button = Button(16)
LED1 = LED(18)
LED2 = LED(25)

How do I get the “buttonlongpressed” to happen without

the “buttonpressed” happenening too?

Button is pressed and released within a second

def buttonpressed():
print(“Short pressed”)
LED1.on()
LED2.off()

Button is pressed for more than 5 seconds and released

def buttonlongpressed():
print(“Long pressed”)
LED2.on()
LED1.off()

button.when_pressed = buttonpressed
HERE IS WHAT I NEED = buttonlongpressed

pause()

2

You’ll need to consult this documentation:

https://pypi.org/project/gpiozero/

They have this example code:

from gpiozero import LED, Button
from signal import pause

led = LED(17)
button = Button(3)

button.when_pressed = led.on
button.when_released = led.off

pause()

There is “when_pressed” and “when_released” so you can implement something to count the time between press and release.

in psuedocode:

button.when_pressed = start_timer
Press+release < 2 sec might run something and
Press > 4 sec might run something else

3

You could use this

from gpiozero import Button
import time


print("hello")
end = time.time()
print(end - start)

button = Button(2)

while True:
    if button.is_pressed:
        print("Button is pressed")
    else:
        print("Button is not pressed")

https://gpiozero.readthedocs.io/en/latest/recipes.html#button

With this:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7370801/how-do-i-measure-elapsed-time-in-python

import time

start = time.time()
print("hello")
end = time.time()
print(end - start)

To build something to measure a button press length