sense-hat-webthing 0.0.6

Sense Hat WebThing

SENSE-HAT WEBTHING

ABOUT

Addon adapter for Mozilla IoT Gateway using python module to handle I2C sensors and GPIOs of Raspberry Pi's extension board "SenseHat".

USAGE

PREREQUISITES

Install mozilla WebThing gateway on RaspberryPI (It was made for https://github.com/mozilla-iot/gateway/releases/download/0.12.0/gateway-0.12.0.img.zip )

• Connect to device's wifi "WebThings Gateway FFFF" and then open http://gateway.local/, Setup WiFi Setup
• Connect back to LAN Wifi open http://gateway.local/things again

INSTALL

From "Settings" add-on menu:

• Add "and enable add-on
• Then add "SenseHat" from the things dashboard.

DEVELOP

# From Settings / Developer / Enable SSH
# https://sensehat.mozilla-iot.org/settings/developer
ssh [e-mail] # password=raspberry
sudo systemctl stop mozilla-iot-gateway
rm -rf ~/.mozilla-iot/addons/sense-hat-*
cd ~/.mozilla-iot/addons/
git clone https://github.com/rzr/sense-hat-webthing sense-hat-adapter
make -C sense-hat-adapter help prep start # unprep # to restore
sudo systemctl restart mozilla-iot-gateway
sudo journalctl -f -xu mozilla-iot-gateway.service

From "/things" webpage "SenseHat" can be added (+, Add, Done)

Note that instead of restarting gateway, from Web UI, any addon can disabled and enabled again.

EXTRA: EXAMPLES

More examples can be also used as standone webthing server:

cd example
# If on debian, it will be faster:
sudo apt-get install python3-sense-hat 
pip3 install webthing 
# Or if not on debian:
# pip3 install -r requirements.txt 
./sense-hat-single-thing.py

Then add thing using "URL" adapter it should be discovered as (http://localhost:8888)

Same procedure for other exampl, like multiple things which is handling orientation sensor.

MORE

For reference the following items are supported:

• https://www.st.com/resource/en/datasheet/hts221.pdf
• https://www.st.com/resource/en/datasheet/lps25hb.pdf
• https://www.st.com/resource/en/datasheet/lsm9ds1.pdf

Thanks to Geof Cohler (@gcohler) for support.

RESOURCES

• https://libraries.io/pypi/sense-hat-webthing
• https://pypi.org/project/sense-hat-webthing/
• https://mastodon.social/@rzr/104052909544715058#LavalVirtual2020
• https://github.com/mozilla-iot/addon-list/pull/822
• https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/is-there-an-add-on-for-pi-sense-hat/58024/5
• https://www.openhub.net/p/sense-hat-webthing
• https://github.com/rzr/mozilla-iot-generic-sensors-adapter/issues/13
• https://github.com/mozilla-iot/wiki/wiki#general-1
• https://github.com/mozilla-iot/gateway-addon-python
• https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/02/creating-an-add-on-for-the-project-things-gateway/
• https://libraries.io/pypi/sense-hat
• https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/sense-hat/
• https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/sense-hat/
• https://github.com/astro-pi/python-sense-hat
• https://pythonhosted.org/sense-hat/api/
• https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-sense/
• https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/projects/getting-started-with-the-sense-hat
• https://iot.mozilla.org/schemas/
• https://github.com/mozilla-iot/webthing-python/
• https://github.com/mozilla-iot/tplink-adapter
• https://github.com/mozilla-iot/eufy-adapter