thingy52 0.1.5

Interface to Thingy:52

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Thingy:52
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Python interface to Thingy:52

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* Free software: MIT license
* Documentation: https://thingy52.readthedocs.io. <- coming soon

This package is an implementation of a Python interface for the Thingy:52 ble IoT Sensor Kit.

More information about Thingy:52 is found here: https://www.nordicsemi.com/eng/Products/Nordic-Thingy-52

Full disclosure: A reference implementation for thingy:52 already exists in the popular bluepy package:

https://github.com/IanHarvey/bluepy

Install
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Python 2 support <- coming soon.

Python 3:

.. highlight:: bash

$ sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-dev
$ pip3 install thingy52

If you find bluepy-helper isn't being built, please try:

.. highlight:: bash

$ pip install --no-binary :all: thingy52

To use the recording demo (/demo/record.py) you will need the PyAudio package (https://people.csail.mit.edu/hubert/pyaudio/).

Features
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* CLI interface using Click

* Data conversion functions for all sensors (not yet fully complete)

* Some fun demos to get you started


BUGS
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The first connection attempt after turning on the thingy:52 usually fails, but it works after that.


TODO
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- [ ] Python 2.X

- [X] Python 3.X

- [ ] Implementation

- [X] Toggle notify

- [ ] Notification frequency

- [X] Read/Write

- [X] Services

- [X] Environment

- [X] Motion

- [X] User Interface

- [ ] Audio

- [ ] Documentation

- [ ] Installation

- [ ] Usage

- [ ] Convert docs to markdown

- [ ] Badges (CI, Readthedocs)

- [ ] Photo of thingy:52

- [ ] Gif of demo (controlling Picam)

- [ ] Distribution

- [ ] Conda package (conda-forge)

- [X] Pypi package

More information
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* https://nordicsemiconductor.github.io/Nordic-Thingy52-FW/documentation/firmware_architecture.html
* https://infocenter.nordicsemi.com/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.nordic.infocenter.rds%2Fdita%2Frds%2Fdesigns%2Fthingy%2Fhw_description%2Fhw_descr.html&cp=9_0_6

Credits
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This package was created with Cookiecutter_ and the `audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage`_ project template.

.. _Cookiecutter: https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter
.. _`audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage`: https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage



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History
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0.1.0 (2017-08-26)
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* First release on PyPI.