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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

LED handler

On line (8) in the following, we have another message handlerthis time using a custom event named led. Also notice on line (9) that this event handler has a data parameter, whereas the connect and disconnect handlers in the preceding section had no parameters. The data parameter contains data sent from the client, and we see, on line (10), the level child property of data. All data form clients are strings, so here we validate the data and cast it to an integer on the following line. There is no equivalent built-in argument validating and parsing utility with Flask-SocketIO, so we must perform validation checks manually, as shown starting on line (11):

@socketio.on('led')                                 # (8)
def handle_state(data): # (9)
"""Handle 'led' messages to control the LED."""
global state
logger.info("Update LED from client {}: {} "
.format(request...