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Practical Python Programming for IoT

You're reading from   Practical Python Programming for IoT Build advanced IoT projects using a Raspberry Pi 4, MQTT, RESTful APIs, WebSockets, and Python 3

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838982461
Length 516 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Section 1: Programming with Python and the Raspberry Pi
2. Setting Up your Development Environment FREE CHAPTER 3. Getting Started with Python and IoT 4. Networking with RESTful APIs and Web Sockets Using Flask 5. Networking with MQTT, Python, and the Mosquitto MQTT Broker 6. Section 2: Practical Electronics for Interacting with the Physical World
7. Connecting Your Raspberry Pi to the Physical World 8. Electronics 101 for the Software Engineer 9. Section 3: IoT Playground - Practical Examples to Interact with the Physical World
10. Turning Things On and Off 11. Lights, Indicators, and Displaying Information 12. Measuring Temperature, Humidity, and Light Levels 13. Movement with Servos, Motors, and Steppers 14. Measuring Distance and Detecting Movement 15. Advanced IoT Programming Concepts - Threads, AsyncIO, and Event Loops 16. IoT Visualization and Automation Platforms 17. Tying It All Together - An IoT Christmas Tree 18. Assessments 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

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On line (8) in the following, we have another message handler—this time using a custom event named led. Also notice on line (9) that this event handler has a data parameter, whereas the connect and disconnect handlers in the preceding section had no parameters. The data parameter contains data sent from the client, and we see, on line (10), the level child property of data. All data form clients are strings, so here we validate the data and cast it to an integer on the following line. There is no equivalent built-in argument validating and parsing utility with Flask-SocketIO, so we must perform validation checks manually, as shown starting on line (11):

@socketio.on('led')                                 # (8)
def handle_state(data): # (9)
"""Handle 'led' messages to control the LED."""
global state
logger.info("Update LED from client {}: {} "
.format(request...
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