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Lanner PSP aims to simplify and enhance the efficiency of customer’s application implementation. When developers intend to write an application that involves hardware access, they were required to fully understand the specifications to utilize the drivers. This is often being considered a time- consuming job which requires lots of related knowledge and time. In order to achieve better full access hardware functionality, Lanner invests great effort to ease customer’s development journey with the release of a suite of reliable Software APIs.

“Python API for Lanner PSP” uses Python to call the shared object file generated after PSP compilation to execute PSP functions, and encapsulates many C functions in PSP into Python interfaces, so please make sure to install Core SDK before use.

If your Core SDK was installed via the One-Step Automated Install method, you can use it out of the box, otherwise you should set the liblmbio.so and liblmbapi.so paths before instantiating other objects. For example:

from lannerpsp import PSP, HWM

PSP.lmb_io_path = "/path/to/liblmbio.so"
PSP.lmb_api_path = "/path/to/liblmbapi.so"

hwm = HWM()

hwm.get_cpu_temp(1)
...

Assuming you want to obtain the sensors data for the hardware monitor:

from lannerpsp import HWM

hwm = HWM()

sensors = hwm.list_supported_sensors()
for s in sensors:
    print(f"{s.display_name} = {s.value} {s.unit}")

Then run it with ROOT privileges, the output will be like:

CPU 1 temperature = 41 C
SYS 1 temperature = 42 C
CPU 1 Vcore = 0.856 V
5V = 5.087 V
3.3V = 3.35 V
Battery = 3.184 V
DDR channel 1 = 1.104 V

For complete usage, please refer to the documentation.

Concurrency and Parallelism

Lanner PSP invokes many underlying hardware interfaces for communication, such as IPMI, SMBus, Super I/O, or some MCUs. Some PSP functions may occupy the same communication channel, such as UART or I2C, etc. Please avoid using multi-process or multi-threading unless you can ensure they will not cause errors due to simultaneous access to the same channel.

Installation

To use the “Python API for Lanner PSP”, you must have ROOT privileges and the Core SDK must be installed first. To install “Python API for Lanner PSP”, see the Installation chapter.

Documentation

Comprehensive documentation is available at https://psp-api-python.readthedocs.io/.

Issues and questions

If you have a feature request or bug report, please open an issue on GitHub. If you have a question or need help, this may be better suited to Lanner’s official online customer service.

Python support