# How to enable remote GPIO

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**Category:** balenaOS\
**Tags:** raspberrypi3\
**Created:** [March 24, 2020, 5:08pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/how-to-enable-remote-gpio/84759 "2020-03-24T17:08:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![tofino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/898d66/32.png) [@tofino](https://forums.balena.io/u/tofino)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2020, 7:40pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/how-to-enable-remote-gpio/84759/8 "2020-03-25T19:40:09Z")

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I am trying a totally new approach now which is to try to split pigpiod into its own service container. In my .yml file I expose port 8888 on the pigpio service and then make my other container dependent on it. It looks like it might work but the issue I am having is that both containers are now constantly exiting and restarting. I found another topic on this [Container stuck continuously restarting](https://forums.balena.io/t/container-stuck-continuously-restarting/6078/7) but not sure if that is the issue.

Any suggestions on how to prevent these containers from constantly restarting?

Greg

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