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Getting Started with Python for the Internet of Things

By : Tim Cox, Steven Lawrence Fernandes, Sai Yamanoor, Srihari Yamanoor, Prof. Diwakar Vaish
Book Image

Getting Started with Python for the Internet of Things

By: Tim Cox, Steven Lawrence Fernandes, Sai Yamanoor, Srihari Yamanoor, Prof. Diwakar Vaish

Overview of this book

This Learning Path takes you on a journey in the world of robotics and teaches you all that you can achieve with Raspberry Pi and Python. It teaches you to harness the power of Python with the Raspberry Pi 3 and the Raspberry Pi zero to build superlative automation systems that can transform your business. You will learn to create text classifiers, predict sentiment in words, and develop applications with the Tkinter library. Things will get more interesting when you build a human face detection and recognition system and a home automation system in Python, where different appliances are controlled using the Raspberry Pi. With such diverse robotics projects, you'll grasp the basics of robotics and its functions, and understand the integration of robotics with the IoT environment. By the end of this Learning Path, you will have covered everything from configuring a robotic controller, to creating a self-driven robotic vehicle using Python. • Raspberry Pi 3 Cookbook for Python Programmers - Third Edition by Tim Cox, Dr. Steven Lawrence Fernandes • Python Programming with Raspberry Pi by Sai Yamanoor, Srihari Yamanoor • Python Robotics Projects by Prof. Diwakar Vaish
Table of Contents (37 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Viewing data from your own webserver


Gathering and collecting information into databases is very helpful, but if it is locked inside a database or a file, it isn't of much use. However, if we allow the stored data to be viewed via a web page, it will be far more accessible; not only can we view the data from other devices, but we can also share it with others on the same network.

We shall create a local web server to query and display the captured SQLite data and allow it to be viewed through a PHP web interface. This will allow the data to be viewed, not only via the web browser on the Raspberry Pi, but also on other devices, such as cell phones or tablets, on the local network:

Data captured in the SQLite database displayed via a web page

Using a web server to enter and display information is a powerful way to allow a wide range of users to interact with your projects. The following example demonstrates a web server setup that can be customized for a variety of uses.

Getting ready

Ensure you...