This repository contains Machinetalk bindings for Python. Machinetalk is the middleware for Machinekit the open source machine control software.

For more information visit:

• http://machinekit.io
• https://github.com/machinekit/machinekit
• https://github.com/machinekit/machinetalk-protobuf

You can find examples how to use pymachinetalk in ./examples/

import time
from pymachinetalk.dns_sd import ServiceDiscovery
import pymachinetalk.halremote as halremote

sd = ServiceDiscovery()

rcomp = halremote.RemoteComponent('anddemo', debug=False)
rcomp.newpin('button0', halremote.HAL_BIT, halremote.HAL_OUT)
rcomp.newpin('button1', halremote.HAL_BIT, halremote.HAL_OUT)
led_pin = rcomp.newpin('led', halremote.HAL_BIT, halremote.HAL_IN)
sd.register(rcomp)

sd.start()

try:
    while True:
        if rcomp.connected:
            print('LED status %s' %s str(led_pin.value)
        time.sleep(0.5)
except KeyboardInterrupt:
    pass

sd.stop()

Pymachinetalk is available on PyPI

You can easily install it via pip:

sudo apt install python-pip
sudo pip install pymachinetalk

Note: If you need Python 2.7 support, use version 0.12.3 from PyPI.

Pymachinetalk depends on the machinetalk-protobuf, fysom, zeroconf and pyzmq Python packages.

Note that you need a recent version of fysom (> 2.0) for pymachinetalk to work properly.

On Debian based distributions you can use the following commands:

# install everything from pip
sudo apt install python-pip
pip install -e .[dev]

You can install pymachinetalk using the Python setuptools:

sudo python setup.py install

• more and easier examples
• more testing