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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

PiGPIO LED as a class

In the pigpio_led_class.py file, we have a Python class that is a re-engineering of the PiGPIO LED example to wrap it as a class that mimics the GPIOZero LED class. It demonstrates the basic principle of how GPIOZero abstracts away lower-level GPIO complexity. This re-engineered class can be used as a drop-in replacement for the GPIOZero LED examples in this chapter, as shown here. See the header comments in pigpio_led_class.py for more information:

""" chapter02/dweet_led.py """
...
# from gpiozero import LED # Comment out import
from pigpio_led_class import PiGPIOLED as LED # Add new import

I hope you find these two bonus files interesting, and that by exploring the PiGPIO LED as a class example, you can better appreciate how the higher-level GPIOZero library and lower-level PiGPIO library relate to one another.

At this stage of your journey, if you are a little unclear about what's happening...