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Practical Python Programming for IoT

By : Gary Smart
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Practical Python Programming for IoT

By: Gary Smart

Overview of this book

The age of connected devices is here, be it fitness bands or smart homes. It's now more important than ever to understand how hardware components interact with the internet to collect and analyze user data. The Internet of Things (IoT), combined with the popular open source language Python, can be used to build powerful and intelligent IoT systems with intuitive interfaces. This book consists of three parts, with the first focusing on the "Internet" component of IoT. You'll get to grips with end-to-end IoT app development to control an LED over the internet, before learning how to build RESTful APIs, WebSocket APIs, and MQTT services in Python. The second part delves into the fundamentals behind electronics and GPIO interfacing. As you progress to the last part, you'll focus on the "Things" aspect of IoT, where you will learn how to connect and control a range of electronic sensors and actuators using Python. You'll also explore a variety of topics, such as motor control, ultrasonic sensors, and temperature measurement. Finally, you'll get up to speed with advanced IoT programming techniques in Python, integrate with IoT visualization and automation platforms, and build a comprehensive IoT project. By the end of this book, you'll be well-versed with IoT development and have the knowledge you need to build sophisticated IoT systems using Python.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Section 1: Programming with Python and the Raspberry Pi
6
Section 2: Practical Electronics for Interacting with the Physical World
9
Section 3: IoT Playground - Practical Examples to Interact with the Physical World

Configuring and running the ThinkSpeak Python program

We have provided two sample programs that integrate with ThinkSpeak. They are as follows:

  • chapter13/thingspeak_dht_mqtt.py: An example that uses MQTT to send data into a ThinkSpeak channel.

  • chapter13/thingspeak_dht_http.py: An example that uses the Python requests library to make RESTful API calls that send data to a ThinkSpeak channel.

The core concepts of these two programs were discussed in earlier chapters. For your reference, they are as follows:

  • MQTT: We discussed the Paho-MQTT library in Chapter 4, Networking with MQTT, Python, and the Mosquitto MQTT BrokerA key difference for this chapter is that we are using the Paho-MQTT simplifying client wrapper to publish MQTT messages instead of a full life cycle example.
  • We covered RESTful APIs and the requests library in Chapter 2, Getting Started with Python and IoT.
  • The code related to the DHT 11/DHT 22 temperature and humidity sensor was covered in Chapter...