usage of gpio by another program

[dan]

The GPIO pins listed in gpio_pins.py are the only ones used by SIP. You should probably have SIP set up to start automatically before you other program. This will have SIP running in the background and the other program should not interfere with it.

If you start SIP from the command line you can add "&" (without the "") to the command to have SIP run in the background. for example:
python sip.py &