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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

Integration with email

The process for integrating with email or Twitter is the same as what we covered in Chapter 13, IoT Visualization and Automation Platforms, with the following changes:

  1. Rather than using LED as the hashtag (the Complete Trigger Fields Page step in IFTTT), use TREE. This way, your email subject can be something such as #TREE pattern red blue or #TREE animation blink.
  2. When configuring the That webhook service, you need to use the dweet URL printed on the terminal previously when you ran the dweet integration service. An example from my configuration is shown in the following figure. Remember the thing name in your URL will be different:

Figure 14.7 – Webhook configuration
  1. Once you have completed setting up your IFTTT Applet, try emailing [email protected] with the following subject:
    • #TREE pattern red blue black
    • #TREE animation left

A few moments after emailing or tweeting the #TREE pattern red blue black command, your tree&apos...