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Internet of Things with Python

By : Gaston C. Hillar
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Internet of Things with Python

By: Gaston C. Hillar

Overview of this book

Internet of Things (IoT) is revolutionizing the way devices/things interact with each other. And when you have IoT with Python on your side, you'll be able to build interactive objects and design them. This book lets you stay at the forefront of cutting-edge research on IoT. We'll open up the possibilities using tools that enable you to interact with the world, such as Intel Galileo Gen 2, sensors, and other hardware. You will learn how to read, write, and convert digital values to generate analog output by programming Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) in Python. You will get familiar with the complex communication system included in the board, so you can interact with any shield, actuator, or sensor. Later on, you will not only see how to work with data received from the sensors, but also perform actions by sending them to a specific shield. You'll be able to connect your IoT device to the entire world, by integrating WiFi, Bluetooth, and Internet settings. With everything ready, you will see how to work in real time on your IoT device using the MQTT protocol in python. By the end of the book, you will be able to develop IoT prototypes with Python, libraries, and tools.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Internet of Things with Python
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Working with bi-directional communications


We can easily add a few lines of code to publish a message to the same channel in which we are receiving messages to indicate that the command has been successfully processed. We will use our previous example as a baseline and we will create a new version of the MessageChannel class. The code file was iot_python_chapter_09_02.py. Don't forget to replace the strings assigned to the publish_key and subscribe_key local variables in the __init__ method with the values you have retrieved from the previously explained PubNub key generation process. The following lines show the new version of the MessageChannel class that publishes a message after a command has been successfully processed. The code file for the sample is iot_python_chapter_09_03.py.

import time
from pubnub import Pubnub

class MessageChannel:
    command_key = "command"
    successfully_processed_command_key = "successfully_processed_command"

    def __init__(self, channel, temperature_servo...