Programming the Omega

Kit Bishop

I really could do with help on how one goes about programming the Omega and what APIs there are for accessing the hardware (pins, i2c, etc).

Basic examples/tutorial would be of great help.

Jun Cao

I succeeded in installing python-light. Is it possible to install pip or other 3rd party module? Will there be some python GPIO library?

Kit Bishop

Jun Cao, thanks for the info - I'll give python-light a try.
GPIO libraries and how to access I2C would also be useful to me

Boken Lin

@Jun-Cao Yup, we will be writing a python wrapper to interact with all the hardware features.
@Kit-Bishop Currently you can use shell commands to interact with GPIO and I2C. Once these wrappers have been written we will be posting API documentations that shows you how to interact with the features programmatically.

T NT

That is awesome guys. I have just been using Adafruit's python libs for their displays which you control over i2c and very happy if you can provide similar functionality. Cool!

Maurice

Hi @Boken-Lin could the team also have wrappers for python3 made available? ie. wrappers for the python3-light package?

Boken Lin

@Maurice Yeah. There is a tool in python called 2to3. If we write python 2 code carefully, we can just write one set of code and have it "compiled" to python 3 without any issue.

Maurice

Thanks @Boken-Lin looking forward to the wrappers when they're complete : )

Yesh Chandiramani

Hey for the people who are just getting into programming with the Onion Omega, I will be posting a video on the programming and building of a circuit that uses a button and an led to blink. It will be up on my channel by the end of this week latest. I will post more info when it is up. So relax and just wait