AT&T M2X is a cloud-based fully managed time-series data storage service for network connected machine-to-machine (M2M) devices and the Internet of Things (IoT).
The AT&T M2X API provides all the needed operations and methods to connect your devices to AT&T's M2X service. This library aims to provide a simple wrapper to interact with the AT&T M2X API for Python. Refer to the Glossary of Terms to understand the nomenclature used throughout this documentation.
- Signup for an M2X Account.
- Obtain your Master Key from the Master Keys tab of your Account Settings screen.
- Create your first Device and copy its Device ID.
- Review the M2X API Documentation.
This library provides an interface to navigate and register your data source values with the AT&T's M2X service, while supporting Python 2 and 3.
To use Python on your local machine, you'll need to first install
Python-setuptools
.
The project is very easy to install — the different options are:
$ pip install m2x
or:
$ easy_install m2x
or cloning the repository:
$ git clone https://github.com/attm2x/m2x-python.git
$ cd m2x-python
$ python setup.py install
Note: If you are installing from behind a proxy, setup.py
may have trouble
connecting to the PyPI server to download dependencies. In this case, you'll
need to set the following environment variables to let the setup script know
how to navigate your proxy:
HTTP_PROXY=http://proxyserver:port/
HTTPS_PROXY=https://proxyserver:ssl_port/
In order to communicate with the M2X API, you need an instance of M2XClient. You need to pass your API key in the constructor to access your data.
from m2x.client import M2XClient
client = M2XClient(key='<API-KEY>')
This client
an interface to your data in M2X
-
distribution = client.distribution('<DISTRIBUTION-ID>') distributions = client.distributions()
-
device = client.device('<DEVICE-ID>') devices = client.devices()
-
key = client.key('<KEY-TOKEN>') keys = client.keys()
Here's an example of a simple application that will load the current time to a stream every 10 seconds:
import os
import time
from m2x.client import M2XClient
# Instantiate a client
client = M2XClient(key=os.environ['API_KEY'])
# Create a device
device = client.create_device(
name='Current Time Example',
description='Store current time every 10 seconds',
visibility='public'
)
# Create a data stream
stream = device.create_stream('current_time')
# And now register the current time every 10 seconds (hit ctrl-c to kill)
while True:
stream.add_value(int(time.time()))
time.sleep(10)
To run this example you need a API Key
and execute it like this:
$ API_KEY=<API-KEY-TOKEN> python ./example.py
This lib aims to adhere to Semantic Versioning 2.0.0. As
a summary, given a version number MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH
:
MAJOR
will increment when backwards-incompatible changes are introduced to the client.MINOR
will increment when backwards-compatible functionality is added.PATCH
will increment with backwards-compatible bug fixes.
Additional labels for pre-release and build metadata are available as
extensions to the MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH
format.
Note: the client version does not necessarily reflect the version used in the AT&T M2X API.
This library is released under the MIT license. See LICENSE for the terms.