helium-commander 0.9.4

A CLI and service wrapper for the Helium API

Helium is an integrated platform of smart sensors, communication, edge and cloud compute that enables numerous sensing applications.

Helium Commander makes it easy to talk to the Helium API. It offers:

• A command line interface to interact with the various Helium endpoints

• A service API that shows how to communicate with the Helium API and interpret the results.

Installation

From Source

Use this if you’re actively developing or extending Commander:

$ virtualenv env
$ source env/bin/activate
$ pip install -e .

From PyPi

From PyPi. Use this if you want to use the command line tool on its own.

$ pip install helium-commander

Note that on some systems you may have to use sudo to install the package system-wide.

$ sudo pip install helium-commander

Nix

helium-commander can also be installed using the Nix package manager. Clone the repository and run:

$ nix-env --install --file default.nix

To upgrade on version releases, run:

$ nix-env --upgrade --file default.nix

Usage

To use the helium command, explore the --help options:

$ helium --help
Usage: helium [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

Options:
  --version                     Show the version and exit.
  --format [csv|json|tabular]   The output format (default 'tabular')
  --uuid                        Whether to display long identifiers
  --host TEXT                   The Helium base API URL. Can also be specified
                                using the HELIUM_API_URL environment variable.
  --api-key TEXT                your Helium API key. Can also be specified using
                                the HELIUM_API_KEY environment variable
  -h, --help                    Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  element        Operations on elements.
  label          Operations on labels of sensors.
  organization   Operations on the authorized organization
  sensor         Operations on physical or virtual sensors.
  user           Operations on the user.

Helium Documentation and Community Support

• Docs Complete documenation for all parts of Helium can be found at docs.helium.com.

Helium Documentation and Community Support

• Docs Complete documenation for all parts of Helium can be found at docs.helium.com.

• chat.helium.com - If you have questions or ideas about how to use this code - or any part of Helium - head over the chat.helium.com. We’re standing by to help.