Piku is small command line utility for managing CircuitPython projects
The purpose of this project is to make creating a CircuitPython project, installing packages, deploying, and connecting to a CircuitPython device easy to do from the command line.
This tool is in early development please be careful when deploying and confirm before deploying that you are only deploying your CircuitPython device, not another drive or device.
Piku is a command line tool that can be installed on Windows, macOS, and Linux using pip3 or pipx.
pipx install piku
After piku is installed you can now create, deploy, add packages, and upgrade CircuitPython projects. You can also use piku to connect to and debug your devices.
usage: piku [-h] {create,add,remove,install,upgrade,serial,deploy,version,info} ...
create create new CircuitPython project
add download and add package to project
remove remove package from project
install install project dependencies
upgrade upgrade all project dependencies to latest
serial connect usb serial port of device
deploy deploy project to device
version show piku version
info show additional piku information
Piku can be installed on Windows, macOS, or Linux. This documentation is a work in progress, is you find issues please feel free to update them and make a pull request. To install Piku please ensure that you have at least Python 3.8 and pipx or pip3 installed, then run. Installing via pipx is preferred when there are dependency conflicts with other tools on your system.
pipx install piku
Or alternatively:
python3 -m pip install --user piku
After Piku is installed you should be able to run Piku from the command line. You can test this by executing:
piku version
Some linux computers do not have the default pip user bin directory included in the PATH. If installing via pip you may add this directory to your PATH or install without the --user argument.
After installation if your user does not have permissions to use the serial port, you may need to add your user to the dialout group.
https://askubuntu.com/questions/58119/changing-permissions-on-serial-port#answer-58122
Before creating a project you must have CircuitPython installed on your device, and have your device serial and USB drivers installed. Please check the CircuitPython website for instructions or the documentation of the board you have purchased. When your done you should be able to see your drive mounted as a USB drive named CIRCUITPY.
https://learn.adafruit.com/welcome-to-circuitpython/installing-circuitpython
To create a new Piku project from the command line type:
piku create example
This will create a new directory with the name of your project and a few folders and files inside. After you have created a project to use Piku, enter the directory of the project you just created to use Piku:
cd example
After you have created a project and modified the main code.py file you can deploy your project to a connected CircuitPython device. To deploy your project find the path of your CIRCUITPY UDB drive. Then type:
piku deploy -d <path of your device>
WARNING!!
Deploying will remove other files from your device. Piku attempts to check that the device is actually a CircuitPython device, and backup your old files, but you still need to be very careful.
You can also let Piku find your device by running deploy with no device argument:
piku deploy
After you have confirmed multiple times that you are deploying to the correct device you can also live on the wild side and skip the confirmation dialog using the -y command line argument. Please be careful.
If changes have been made in your project code, the CircuitPython device should automatically detect and change files and reload.
You can also connect to your CircuitPython device's serial port using Piku. To do this just use the serial command from your Piku project directory:
piku serial
If you are unable to connect, please confirm that you have the serial drivers for your device installed and you have permission to use the serial port (see installation instructions). If you know the serial port, or Piku is connecting to the wront port you can also try specifying it directly via the -s command line flag.
Once connected you can exit by typing ctrl-x, enter the CircuitPython REPL by hitting ctrl-c and ctrl-d to exit the CircuitPython REPL.
You can easily download and add CircuitPython packages from the official Bundle or Community bundle using the command. For example to download and add the neopixel package you would type:
piku add neopixel
The specified package and its dependencies will be downloaded and added to your lib folder and your pyproject.toml file. You can also remove this package by typing:
piku remove neopixel
You can also install specific versions of packages by specifying in a similar way to other package manages:
piku add neopixel@~6
or
piku add neopixel@~6.1.2
You can also specify the target CircuitPython version (6 or 7) in your pyproject.toml file. One word of warning: package dependencies are often not broadly specified and may clash if you are not installing the latest versions of packages.
You can upgrade all packages by running the upgrade command.
piku upgrade
You can also upgrade a single package by adding the latest version.
piku add neopixel
Assuming you have successfully installed Piku, here is a complete example on how to create and deploy a Piku project to the Adafruit Feather Sense board using a Linux computer.
First setup the board to user CircuitPython following the instructions found here:
https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-feather-sense/circuitpython-on-feather-sense
After your board is setup and mounts as a CIRCUITPY USB drive create a new Piku project and enter the project directory.
piku create example
cd example
After you have created a project you will need to edit project/code.py which is the main file for your project (this is a CircuitPython convention). Open project/code.py and paste the following Demo Code from AdaFruit.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Kattni Rembor for Adafruit Industries
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
#
"""Sensor demo for Adafruit Feather Sense. Prints data from each of the sensors."""
import time
import array
import math
import board
import audiobusio
import adafruit_apds9960.apds9960
import adafruit_bmp280
import adafruit_lis3mdl
import adafruit_lsm6ds.lsm6ds33
import adafruit_sht31d
i2c = board.I2C()
apds9960 = adafruit_apds9960.apds9960.APDS9960(i2c)
bmp280 = adafruit_bmp280.Adafruit_BMP280_I2C(i2c)
lis3mdl = adafruit_lis3mdl.LIS3MDL(i2c)
lsm6ds33 = adafruit_lsm6ds.lsm6ds33.LSM6DS33(i2c)
sht31d = adafruit_sht31d.SHT31D(i2c)
microphone = audiobusio.PDMIn(board.MICROPHONE_CLOCK, board.MICROPHONE_DATA,
sample_rate=16000, bit_depth=16)
def normalized_rms(values):
minbuf = int(sum(values) / len(values))
return int(math.sqrt(sum(float(sample - minbuf) *
(sample - minbuf) for sample in values) / len(values)))
apds9960.enable_proximity = True
apds9960.enable_color = True
# Set this to sea level pressure in hectoPascals at your location for accurate altitude reading.
bmp280.sea_level_pressure = 1013.25
while True:
samples = array.array('H', [0] * 160)
microphone.record(samples, len(samples))
print("\nFeather Sense Sensor Demo")
print("---------------------------------------------")
print("Proximity:", apds9960.proximity)
print("Red: {}, Green: {}, Blue: {}, Clear: {}".format(*apds9960.color_data))
print("Temperature: {:.1f} C".format(bmp280.temperature))
print("Barometric pressure:", bmp280.pressure)
print("Altitude: {:.1f} m".format(bmp280.altitude))
print("Magnetic: {:.3f} {:.3f} {:.3f} uTesla".format(*lis3mdl.magnetic))
print("Acceleration: {:.2f} {:.2f} {:.2f} m/s^2".format(*lsm6ds33.acceleration))
print("Gyro: {:.2f} {:.2f} {:.2f} dps".format(*lsm6ds33.gyro))
print("Humidity: {:.1f} %".format(sht31d.relative_humidity))
print("Sound level:", normalized_rms(samples))
time.sleep(0.3)Next install the required libraries for the AdaFruit Feather Sense example:
piku add adafruit_apds9960
piku add adafruit_bmp280
piku add adafruit_lis3mdl
piku add adafruit_lsm6ds
piku add adafruit_sht31d
piku add neopixel
These packages should now found to your project lib folder, and your pyproject.toml file. Confirm this by listing the files in your lib directory using ls project/lib. The ls command should return something the following if all packages were installed properly:
adafruit_apds9960
adafruit_bus_device
adafruit_lsm6ds
adafruit_register
neopixel.mpy
adafruit_bmp280.mpy
adafruit_lis3mdl.mpy
adafruit_pixelbuf.mpy
adafruit_sht31d.mpy
Your pyproject.toml file should now look something like this:
[tool.piku]
project = "example"
piku = "0.1.8"
circuit-python = "7"
[tool.piku.dependencies]
neopixel = "latest"
adafruit_bmp280 = "latest"
adafruit_apds9960 = "latest"
adafruit_lis3mdl = "latest"
adafruit_lsm6ds = "latest"
adafruit_sht31d = "latest"
Now make sure your device is mounted as a USB drive and find the device's mount point. This should be something like /media/username/CIRCUITPY/ or a drive letter on windows. Make note of this!
After your device is connected and mounted, you can deploy your code using the deploy command:
piku deploy -d <your device path here>
Next before deploying confirm that the device selected is the correct device. When Piku deploys it first attempts to validate its a CircuitPython device and then tries to backup the contents of the device in a temporary location. After validation and backup it loads your files onto the device and removes almost all other files
You can also forego the -d <your device path here> argument and let Piku attempt to find your device, but please confirm that you are deploying to the correct device so you don't lost any data.
After your code is deployed you can connect to the serial port to see your code in action. It make take a minute for the device to reload. To connect to the serial port run:
piku serial
Piku will attempt to connect to the first available serial port and reach your device, if you have more than one serial port you may need to specify which port via the command like arguments. Hit ctrl-x to exit or ctrl-c/ctrl-d to enter/exit the CircuitPython REPL.
Thanks it! Happy hacking!
Contributions are very welcome, my time to work on the project is limited. Please post issues and pull requests on Github if you would like to help forward the project.