grove.py

Python library for Seeedstudio Grove Devices on Raspberry Pi.

Archtecture

To operate grove sensors, the grove.py depends many hardware interface libraries such as mraa/smbus2/rpi.gpi/rpi_ws281x.

Installation

For beginner or library user only, please install with online method.
For developer, please install dependencies and then install grove.py with source code.

Online install

install/update all dependencies and latest grove.py

curl -sL https://github.com/Seeed-Studio/grove.py/raw/master/install.sh | sudo bash -s -

Install Dependencies

Install MRAA and UPM for Raspberry Pi

• Add repository

echo "deb https://seeed-studio.github.io/pi_repo/ stretch main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/seeed.list

• Add public GPG key

curl https://seeed-studio.github.io/pi_repo/public.key | sudo apt-key add -

or

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys BB8F40F3

• Install MRAA & UPM

sudo apt update
# Python2
sudo apt install python-mraa python-upm
# Python3
sudo apt install python3-mraa python3-upm

Install library raspberry-gpio-python

sudo apt update
sudo apt install python-rpi.gpio python3-rpi.gpio

Install library rpi_ws281x

sudo pip install rpi_ws281x
sudo pip3 install rpi_ws281x

Install grove.py

From PyPI

• For Python2

sudo pip install grove.py

• For Python3

sudo pip3 install grove.py

From source code

git clone https://github.com/Seeed-Studio/grove.py
cd grove.py
# Python2
sudo pip install .
# Python3
sudo pip3 install .

Usage

See the link below for details:

demo and execute