Coding for Particle

Installation of the Particle command line interface

%%capture
!bash <( curl -sL https://particle.io/install-cli )

Login to Particle

import getpass
import subprocess

particle_cli = "/root/bin/particle"
username = getpass.getpass(prompt="Username: ")
password = getpass.getpass(prompt="Password: ")

process = subprocess.run([particle_cli, "login",
                          "--username", username,
                          "--password", password],
                         stdout=subprocess.PIPE, 
                         stderr=subprocess.PIPE)

if process.stderr.decode("utf-8"):
    print(process.stderr.decode("utf-8"))
else:
    print(f"Successfully logged in to Particle Device Cloud as {username}")
    process = subprocess.run([particle_cli, "list"], stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
    print(process.stdout.decode("utf-8"))

Username: ··········
Password: ··········
Successfully logged in to Particle Device Cloud as kantor.1@nd.edu
jck_argon_01 [e00fce68eaceb1faa7cf7193] (Argon) is online

device_name = "jck_argon_01"

Blinking LED Demo

Blinking LED Code

%%writefile blink.ino

int led = D7;

void setup() {
    pinMode(led, OUTPUT);
}

void loop() {
    digitalWrite(led, HIGH);
    delay(200);
    digitalWrite(led, LOW);
    delay(800);
}

Overwriting blink.ino

Compiling

process = subprocess.run([particle_cli, "compile", "argon", "blink.ino", "--saveTo", "blink.bin"], 
                         stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
print(process.stdout.decode("utf-8"))

Compiling code for argon

Including:
    blink.ino

attempting to compile firmware
downloading binary from: /v1/binaries/5f8e4e0fbbdad933df7dedb8
saving to: blink.bin
Memory use:
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
   5708	    112	   1060	   6880	   1ae0	/workspace/target/workspace.elf

Compile succeeded.
Saved firmware to: /content/blink.bin

Flashing binary to device

process = subprocess.run([particle_cli, "flash", device_name, "blink.bin"], stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
print(process.stdout.decode("utf-8"))

Including:
    blink.bin

attempting to flash firmware to your device jck_argon_01
Flash device OK: Update started

Flash success!