To perform the exercises in this chapter, you will need the following:
- Raspberry Pi 4 Model B
- Raspbian OS Buster (with desktop and recommended software)
- Minimum Python version 3.5
These requirements are what the code examples in this book are based on. It's reasonable to expect that the code examples should work without modification on a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B or a different version of Raspbian OS as long as your Python version is 3.5 or higher.
To complete the section titled Integration with Google Assistant, at a minimum, you will need the following prerequisites:
- A Google account (if you have a Gmail email account, that's all you need)
- An Android phone or the Google Assistant app for iOS
You will find this chapter's source code in the chapter14 folder in the GitHub repository available here: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Practical-Python-Programming-for-IoT.
You will need to execute the following...