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Practical Python Programming for IoT

By : Gary Smart
Book Image

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 the Tree MQTT service

The dweet integration service configuration is found in the chapter14/dweet_integration_service/config.py file.  There are a number of configuration options relating to how the service works, and the defaults will be adequate for running this service locally on your Raspberry Pi where you also have your Mosquitto MQTT broker running. The configuration parameters are well commented in this file; however, I will make mention of the ACTION_TOPIC_MAPPINGS and TOPIC_RETAIN_MESSAGE parameters:

ACTION_TOPIC_MAPPINGS = {
"clear": "tree/lights/clear",
"push": "tree/lights/push",
... truncated ...
}

The dweet integration service maps dweeted commands into MQTT topics. It's the ACTION_TOPIC_MAPPINGS configuration parameter that determines how commands are mapped into MQTT topics. We'll discuss this idea of commands in the next section.

The MQTT topics mapped and used by...