grovepi/Software/Python

Installing the GrovePi for Python

This is how the GrovePi python library has to be installed:

curl -kL dexterindustries.com/update_grovepi | bash

You can also install it by running the setup.py installer, but beware of the other requirements for it too: specifically about the di_i2c module from https://github.com/DexterInd/RFR_Tools that has to be installed and the enabling of the I2C in raspi-config menu.

pip install -r requirements.txt

python3 setup.py install

You can also run python setup.py test to test import the modules of the GrovePi package that are listed in the package_modules.txt file. The python setup.py test commands should be run after pip installing the dependencies.

Library Breakdown

There are 2 kind of example scripts:

1. Example programs that only require the grovepi module - these example scripts are found in this directory (or root directory of the Python package).

2. Example programs that are based on other sublibraries other than the grovepi module - these example scripts are found in the subdirectories of this directory.

The libraries installed with the GrovePi package are listed in here.

Python Consideration

Even though you can install the GrovePi package for both versions of it (2.x and 3.x), some libraries other than the main one (grovepi.py) can only be used with Python3. Therefore, it's just better to use Python 3 by-default, instead of relying on an older version of Python which will anyway get retired in the very near future.