pymodi-plus 0.4.2

Python API for controlling modular electronics, MODI+.

Description

Python API for controlling modular electronics, MODI+.

Features

PyMODI+ provides a control of modular electronics.

• Platform agnostic control of modules through serial connection
• Utilities of wireless connection with BLE (Bluetooth Low Engery)

Build Status

master	develop

System Support

System	3.7	3.8	3.9	3.10	3.11
Linux
Mac OS
Windows

Contribution Guidelines

We appreciate all contributions. If you are planning to report bugs, please do so here. Feel free to fork our repository to your local environment, and please send us feedback by filing an issue.

If you want to contribute to pymodi, be sure to review the contribution guidelines. This project adheres to pymodi's code of conduct. By participating, you are expected to uphold this code.

Installation

When installing PyMODI+ package, we highly recommend you to use Anaconda to manage the distribution. With Anaconda, you can use an isolated virtual environment, solely for PyMODI+.

[Optional] Once you install Anaconda, then:

# Install new python environment for PyMODI+ package, choose python version >= 3.7
conda create --name pymodi_plus python=3.7

# After you properly install the python environment, activate it
conda activate pymodi_plus

# Ensure that your python version is compatible with PyMODI+
python --version

Install the latest PyMODI+ if you haven't installed it yet:

python -m pip install pymodi-plus --user --upgrade

Usage

Import modi_plus package and create MODIPlus object (we call it "bundle", a bundle of MODI+ modules).

# Import modi_plus package
import modi_plus

"""
Create MODIPlus object, make sure that you have connected your network module
to your machine while other modules are attached to the network module
"""
bundle = modi_plus.MODIPlus()

[Optional] Specify how you would like to establish the connection between your machine and the network module.

# 1. Serial connection (via USB), it's the default connection method
bundle = modi_plus.MODIPlus(connection_type="serialport")

# 2. BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) connection, it's wireless! But it can be slow :(
bundle = modi_plus.MODIPlus(conn_type="ble", network_uuid="YOUR_NETWORK_MODULE_UUID")

List and create connected modules' object.

# List connected modules
print(bundle.modules)

# List connected leds
print(bundle.leds)

# Pick the first led object from the bundle
led = bundle.leds[0]

Let's blink the LED 5 times.

import time

for _ in range(5):
    # turn on for 0.5 second
    led.turn_on()
    time.sleep(0.5)

    # turn off for 0.5 second
    led.turn_off()
    time.sleep(0.5)

If you are still not sure how to use PyMODI, you can play PyMODI tutorial over REPL:

$ python -m modi_plus --tutorial

As well as an interactive usage examples:

$ python -m modi_plus --usage

Additional Usage

To diagnose MODI+ modules (helpful to find existing malfunctioning modules),

$ python -m modi_plus --inspect

To initialize MODI+ modules implicitly (set i flag to enable REPL mode),

$ python -im modi_plus --initialize

To see what other commands are available,

$ python -m modi_plus --help

Documentation

📚 Complete documentation is available in the docs/ folder.

Quick Links

• 🚀 Quick Start Guide - Get up and running quickly
• ✨ Env Module RGB Features - New RGB sensor support (v2.x+)
• 🛠️ Development Guide - Build, test, and contribute
• 📦 Deployment Guide - Release to PyPI
• 🐛 Troubleshooting - Platform-specific issues and fixes

What's New in v0.4.0

• ✅ RGB Color Sensor Support for Env module v2.x+
  • New properties: red, green, blue, white, black
  • Color classification: color_class (0-5)
  • Brightness measurement: brightness (0-100%)
• ✅ Enhanced Testing - 94 tests across all platforms
• ✅ Python 3.8-3.13 Support - Wide version compatibility
• ✅ Improved CI/CD - GitHub Actions enhancements

See Release History for complete changelog.

Contributing

We welcome contributions! Please see:

• Contributing Guidelines
• Code of Conduct
• Development Guide

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

History

0.4.2 (2025-12-22)

• Feature

1. Add RGB raw value properties for Env module v2.x+
   • New properties: raw_red, raw_green, raw_blue, raw_white (0-65535)
   • New property: raw_rgb tuple (raw_red, raw_green, raw_blue, raw_white)
2. Add set_rgb_mode(mode, duration) method for Env module
   • RGB mode constants: RGB_MODE_AMBIENT, RGB_MODE_ON, RGB_MODE_DUALSHOT
3. Code style fixes for flake8 compatibility

0.4.0 (2025-11-19)

• Feature

1. Add RGB support for Env module v2.x+
   • New properties: red, green, blue, white, black (0-100%)
   • New property: rgb - returns tuple (red, green, blue)
   • New property: color_class (0-5: unknown/red/green/blue/white/black)
   • New property: brightness (0-100%)
   • Automatic version detection via _is_rgb_supported() method
   • Raises AttributeError when accessing RGB properties on v1.x modules
2. Enhanced GitHub Actions workflows
   • Support Python 3.8-3.13 across all platforms
   • Platform-specific compatibility fixes (macOS, Windows)
   • Improved CI/CD with conditional linting (flake8 for 3.8-3.11, ruff for 3.12+)

• Tests

1. Add 31 new RGB-related tests
   • Version compatibility tests
   • RGB property tests
   • Data type validation tests
   • Total: 94 tests (all passing)

• Documentation

1. Complete RGB feature documentation
2. GitHub Actions compatibility guides
3. Branch protection setup guide

0.3.0 (2023-01-19)

• Feature

1. Add draw_dot function on display module

• Patch

1. Fix write_text function error on display module if text length is 23
2. Change module constructor argument from uuid to id

0.2.1 (2022-12-02)

• Patch

1. Refactor write_text input type on display module

0.2.0 (2022-12-02)

• Feature

1. Refactor getter/setter for each MODI+ module

0.1.1 (2022-11-23)

• Feature

1. Change python minimum version to 3.7

0.1.0 (2022-11-22)

• Feature

1. Add creation examples (brush, dodge)
2. Add network, battery module functions
3. Fix play_music function on speaker module
4. Add preset resource on speaker and display module
5. Add search module time and timeout exception

0.0.2 (2022-11-18)

• Feature

1. Change python minimum version to 3.9

0.0.1 (2022-11-15)

• Release initial version of the package on in-house GitHub