Thingy:52

Python interface to Thingy:52

• Free software: MIT license
• Documentation: https://thingy52.readthedocs.io. <- coming soon

This package is an implementation of a Python interface for the Thingy:52 ble IoT Sensor Kit.

More information about Thingy:52 is found here: https://www.nordicsemi.com/eng/Products/Nordic-Thingy-52

Full disclosure: A reference implementation for thingy:52 already exists in the popular bluepy package:

https://github.com/IanHarvey/bluepy

Install

Python 2 support <- coming soon.

Python 3:

If you find bluepy-helper isn't being built, please try:

To use the recording demo (/demo/record.py) you will need the PyAudio package (https://people.csail.mit.edu/hubert/pyaudio/).

Features

• CLI interface using Click
• Data conversion functions for all sensors (not yet fully complete)
• Some fun demos to get you started

BUGS

The first connection attempt after turning on the thingy:52 usually fails, but it works after that.

TODO

• [ ] Python 2.X
• [X] Python 3.X
• [ ] Implementation
  • [X] Toggle notify
  • [ ] Notification frequency
  • [X] Read/Write
  • [X] Services
    • [X] Environment
    • [X] Motion
    • [X] User Interface
    • [ ] Audio
• [ ] Documentation
  • [ ] Installation
  • [ ] Usage
  • [ ] Convert docs to markdown
  • [ ] Badges (CI, Readthedocs)
  • [ ] Photo of thingy:52
  • [ ] Gif of demo (controlling Picam)
• [ ] Distribution
  • [ ] Conda package (conda-forge)
  • [X] Pypi package

More information

• https://nordicsemiconductor.github.io/Nordic-Thingy52-FW/documentation/firmware_architecture.html
• https://infocenter.nordicsemi.com/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.nordic.infocenter.rds%2Fdita%2Frds%2Fdesigns%2Fthingy%2Fhw_description%2Fhw_descr.html&cp=9_0_6

Credits

This package was created with Cookiecutter and the audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage project template.