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Raspberry Pi Zero Cookbook

You're reading from   Raspberry Pi Zero Cookbook Delve into the practical world of the Raspberry Pi Zero

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786463852
Length 422 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Edward Snajder Edward Snajder
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Kick-Start Your Raspberry Pi Zero FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting Up Physical and Wireless Connections 3. Programming with Linux 4. Programming with Python 5. Getting Your Hands Dirty Using the GPIO Header 6. Controlling the LEDs and Displays 7. Controlling the Hardware 8. Taking Digital Inputs to the Raspberry Pi Zero 9. Interfacing Sensors with the Raspberry Pi Zero 10. Cooking up Projects to Amaze the World!

Sending an e-mail from a Python Script


The ability to send e-mail is the way to have your Raspberry Pi Zero contact you no matter where you are. Python's vast library collection includes one that makes sending e-mail simple. Let's expand our program to e-mail someone with a graph attachment of our Raspberry Pi Zero temperature output. If you have a project where your device is remote but still able to access the Internet, you might want to get a regular e-mail showing how things are working without having to log on.

Getting ready

If you have been following along, you can continue adding to your rpz_log_analysis.py program. If you want to see the completed code for this recipe, it is available in the /ch4/ directory of the Git repository, named rpz_log_analysis_email.py.

I used Google's SMTP to send my e-mail. There are a lot of ways you can do it, but this makes it easy to do from pretty much anywhere. All you'll need is a Google account and e-mail.

  1. In your Google account settings, under the...

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