While the tests work well on a PC or Travis, the Pi (where I ought to be
running them!) has some issues with the timing tests. Need to relax the
tolerance of the "assert_states_and_times" method to 0.05 seconds
otherwise it periodically fails even on something reasonably quick like
a Pi 2 (less failures on a Pi 3 but still occasionally).
Also reduced default fps to 25; if the default timing occasionally fails
on a Pi 2 it's evidently too fast for a Pi 1 and shouldn't be the
default; 25 also doesn't look any different to me on a pulsing LED.
There's also a bunch of miscellaneous fixes in here; last minute typos
and chart re-gens for the 1.2 release.
Also re-numbers energenie sockets 1-4 (as noted by @bennuttall in
comments to #239), and adds several "real pins" tests and board tests.
The bad-PWM stuff is currently disabled as it causes segfaults when
running the tests and I can't seem to trace the cause at the moment.
Finally, I've tweaked the deb config to suggest gpiozero, removed spidev
as a mandatory dep (which'll fix installs on wheezy for py3), and
there's some more miscellaneous last-minute stuff here that I can't
recall...
Me and my big mouth. No sooner do I declare the base classes "relatively
stable" than I go and mess around with it all again. Anyway, this is the
long promised set of utilities to make source/values more interesting.
It includes a few interesting little utility functions, a whole bunch of
examples and introduces the notion of "pseudo" devices with no (obvious)
hardware representation like a time-of-day device.
This necessitated making the event system a little more generic (it's
not exclusive the GPIO devices after all; no reason we can't use it on
composite devices in future) and by this point the mixins have gotten
large enough to justify their own module.
The pseudo-devices are a bit spartan and basic at the moment but I'm
sure there'll be plenty of future ideas...
This PR implements SnowPi, adds the ability for LEDBoard's to own other
LEDBoards as well as LEDs, and enhances blink so that manually
controlling a LED automatically stops it from blinking (no matter
whether it's blinking itself or a LEDBoard is blinking it).
It also fixes up RGBLED and Motor which I managed to break with the last
PR ...
This PR adds a software SPI implementation. Firstly this removes the
absolute necessity for spidev (#140), which also means when it's not
present things still work (effectively fixes#185), and also enables any
four pins to be used for SPI devices (which don't require the hardware
implementation).
The software implementation is simplistic but still supports clock
polarity and phase, select-high, and variable bits per word. However it
doesn't allow precise speeds to be implemented because it just wibbles
the clock as fast as it can (which being pure Python isn't actually that
fast).
Finally, because this PR involves creating a framework for "shared"
devices (like SPI devices with multiple channels), it made sense to bung
Energenie (#69) in as wells as this is a really simple shared device.
This commit is a fairly major piece of work that abstracts all pin
operations (function, state, edge detection, PWM, etc.) into a base
"Pin" class which is then used by input/output/composite devices to
perform all required configuration.
The idea is to pave the way for I2C based IO extenders which can present
additional GPIO ports with similar capabilities to the Pi's "native"
GPIO ports. As a bonus it also abstracts away the reliance on the
RPi.GPIO library to allow alternative pin implementations (e.g. using
RPIO to take advantage of DMA based PWM), or even pure Python
implementations.
The prototypes in the docs are rigged to make out the first parameter as
mandatory (as it effectively is); however this does mean you've got to
remember to update the prototype when you modify it in the code! :)
Change parent of PWMOutputDevice to OutputDevice and implement blink to
maintain compatibility. The version of blink implemented here is
slightly extended to include functionality like Explorer HAT's "pulse".
The parameter defaults behave identically to OutputDevice's blink but
can be adjusted to have the device smoothly fade in and out.
This removes the circular dependency introduced in PR#137. This also
fixes up an issue in the base meta-class which meant it wasn't working
in Python 3 (only Python 2), and adds a bit to the meta-class to allow
docstrings to be inherited (taken from the rest-docs branch).
Add forward_device and backward_device to Motor, left_motor and
right_motor to Robot, and ensure all CompositeDevice descendents have a
proper close() method and closed property. Also, add a few more
_check_open calls around the place to make sure GPIODeviceClosed is
properly raised in response to read and writing values.
This finishes off implementing values and source for all (current)
classes in gpiozero. I'm afraid things get rather complex in this
commit. For starters, we've now got quite a few "aggregate" classes
which necessarily don't descend from GPIODevice. To implement values and
source on these I could either repeat a helluva lot of code or ... turn
to mixin classes. Yeah, it's multiple inheritance time, baby!
Unfortunately multiple inheritance doesn't work with __slots__ but we
really ought to keep functionality that they provide us (raise
AttributeError when an unknown attribute is set). So I've implemented
this with ... erm ... metaclasses. Sorry!
Makes `value` an alias of `is_active` in the base `GPIODevice`, and
`values` an infinite iterable of this value. Then adds `source` property
to `OutputDevice` allowing simple linkage of devices via iterators.
Add more property aliases and do them properly (no more lambdas and
string lookups) which means we can remove `_alias`. This commit also
defines `__slots__` for all classes which should prevent assignation of
invalid attributes with an AttributeError (more friendly than silently
doing the wrong thing). Finally, it cleans up all the property defs to
use Ben's preferred decorator style.
