grove.py

Python library for Seeedstudio Grove Devices on embeded Linux platform, especially good on below platforms:

• Raspberry Pi (Wiki)

Architecture

To operate grove sensors, the grove.py depends on the smbus2 hardware interface library.

Installation

For beginner or library user only, please install with online method.
For developer or advanced user, please install dependencies and then install grove.py with source code.

Online install

To install into a virtual environment, first active your virtualenv and type the following command:

curl -sL https://github.com/Seeed-Studio/grove.py/raw/master/install.sh | bash -s -- --user-local --bypass-gui-installation

If you want to install into the system, you can type the following command:

curl -sL https://github.com/Seeed-Studio/grove.py/raw/master/install.sh | sudo bash -s -

Install grove.py

From source code

git clone https://github.com/Seeed-Studio/grove.py
cd grove.py
# Python3 
sudo pip3 install .
# virutalenv for Python3 (If the installation fails when using pip3)
sudo apt install python3-virtualenv
virtualenv -p python3 env
source env/bin/activate
pip3 install .

Usage

Basic GPIO Input & Output demo

import time
from grove.gpio import GPIO

led = GPIO(12, GPIO.OUT)
button = GPIO(22, GPIO.IN)

while True:
    if button.read():
        led.write(1)
    else:
        led.write(0)
    time.sleep(0.1)

See more demos and how to run

API Documentation

click here

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Contribution

Check list for adding a new grove device, for simple, take grove_led as a example.

• Add a Class in the python source file, and export with __all__ =
• Code sytle PEP8 is recommanded
• The python source could run directly with python and python3
• Add demo code at the near top of source file
• The demo code could run directly with someone python/python3 IDE.
• Add document to class and it's member and show the result by refering to API document
• Add a command item in setup.py console_scripts list, take effect by install again
• Add a item to command table in Usage Doc
• If the command need argument but not specified, please list available arguments.
• If specified invalid argument, also output usage document then exit.