xiPy

The official pythonic library for the next-gen Xively platform. Built on top of paho-mqtt python client.

Install

There are two options:

• using pip:

pip install xiPy

• Clone or download this repo.

Usage

Connect

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from xiPy.xively_connection_parameters import XivelyConnectionParameters
from xiPy.xively_client import XivelyClient
from xiPy.xively_config import XivelyConfig

XivelyConfig.XI_MQTT_HOSTS = [ ("my_company.broker.xively.com", 8883, True) ]

params = XivelyConnectionParameters()
params.username = "my_deviceid"
params.password = "my_password"

client = XivelyClient()

client.connect(params)

client.join()

This connects client to Xively. How to get Xively credentials? See PUB and SUB with the Python library.

Set connection finished callback

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def my_on_connect_finished(client, result):
  print("connection resultcode = " + str(result) + ", error codes: xiPy/xi_error_codes.py\n")

client.on_connect_finished = my_on_connect_finished

xiPy error codes: xively_error_codes.py

Callbacks

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These can be overridden with custom actions:

client.on_connect_finished(client, result)
client.on_disconnect_finished(client, result)
client.on_publish_finished(client, request_id)
client.on_subscribe_finished(client, request_id, granted_qos)
client.on_unsubscribe_finished(client, request_id)
client.on_message_received(client, message)

API

client.connect(options)
client.disconnect()
client.publish(topic, payload, qos, retain)
client.publish_timeseries(topic, value, qos)
client.publish_formatted_timeseries(topic, time, category, string_value, numeric_value, qos)
client.subscribe(topic_qos_list)
client.unsubscribe(topic_list)

Features

• Python 2.7 and Python 3.x support
• TLS connection to Xively, TLS1.2 for Python 3.x, TLS1.0 for Python 2.7.x
• Websocket Support

License

This library is Open Source, under the BSD 3-Clause license.