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Internet of Things with Python

You're reading from   Internet of Things with Python Create exciting IoT solutions

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785881381
Length 388 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gaston C. Hillar Gaston C. Hillar
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Preface 1. Understanding and Setting up the Base IoT Hardware FREE CHAPTER 2. Working with Python on Intel Galileo Gen 2 3. Interacting with Digital Outputs with Python 4. Working with a RESTful API and Pulse Width Modulation 5. Working with Digital Inputs, Polling and Interrupts 6. Working with Analog Inputs and Local Storage 7. Retrieving Data from the Real World with Sensors 8. Displaying Information and Performing Actions 9. Working with the Cloud 10. Analyzing Huge Amounts of Data with Cloud-based IoT Analytics A. Exercise Answers Index

Generating analog values via HTTP requests


The HTTP server is running in Yocto Linux and waiting for our HTTP requests to control the LEDs on connected to the Intel Galileo Gen 2 board. Now, we will compose and send HTTP requests from other computer or devices connected to our LAN and we will control the brightness levels for the red, green and blue LEDs.

Open a new terminal, command-line or the GUI tool that we want to use to compose and send HTTP requests from a computer or any device connected to the LAN. Don't forget to replace 192.168.1.107 with your board's IP address in the next requests.

Run the following HTTPie command in a computer or device to use the RESTful API to make the board set the brightness level for the red LED to 30. After you enter the command, you will notice the SSH terminal that displays the output for the Python code will display the following message: Red LED connected to PWM Pin #6 set to brightness 30. In addition, you will see the red LED turned on with a very...

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