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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

Global variables

At line (3) in the following code snippet, we start with a few quasi-constants defining the maximum and minimum voltages we expect to receive through the analog input. When you ran the code previously, your end range voltages probably were not exactly 0 and 3.3 volts. This occurrence is expected, and it can make a program feel like the Pots do not reach the ends of their rotation. The value assigned to A_IN_EDGE_ADJ is used to compensate for this in code. We will revisit this variable in the next section:

A_IN_EDGE_ADJ = 0.002                     # (3)
MIN_A_IN_VOLTS = 0 + A_IN_EDGE_ADJ
MAX_A_IN_VOLTS = 3.3 - A_IN_EDGE_ADJ

Next, starting at line (4), we create two AnalogIn instances relating to the A0 and A1 inputs of the ADS1115 that are connected to our Pots. It's through these variables that we determine how much a user has rotated our frequency and duty cycle potentiometers:

frequency_ch = AnalogIn(ads, ADS.P0)  #ADS.P0 --> A0    # (4)
duty_cycle_ch = AnalogIn...