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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

Questions

As we conclude, here is a list of questions for you to test your knowledge of this chapter's material. You will find the answers in the Assessments section of the Appendix:

  1. Why, in our MQTT service example, did we use PyPubSub to re-dispatch MQTT messages? 
  1. Why is using the Google Assistant app on a phone (or tablet) useful during development when integrating with or debugging an IFTTT Google Assistant Applet?
  2. You are working on an existing weather monitoring project that uses MQTT as its network transport layer to connect many distributed devices. You have been asked to integrate the application with an IFTTT service. How do you do this?
  3. You want to build multiple IoTrees and have them all work together in unison. What are two approaches you can take to achieve this outcome?
  1. Why did we use the free dweet.io service in this chapter? Would you use this approach in a commercial IoT project?
  2. We want to test a RESTful API service from the command line. What...
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