Python dev tools

The Python dev tools bundles a couple of tools that are not part of the SDK (yet). The SDK can be found at https://github.com/crownstone/crownstone-python-sdk.

The dev tools are based on python libs:

• https://github.com/crownstone/crownstone-lib-python-ble
• https://github.com/crownstone/crownstone-lib-python-core
• https://github.com/crownstone/crownstone-lib-python-uart

If you are interested in creating your own tools, go to those repositories and study the example code there.

Installation from PyPi

You can will be able to install these tools through pip soon:

pip install crownstone-devtools

Installation from source

You can install these tools through pip also locally by:

git clone https://github.com/crownstone/crownstone-python-devtools
cd crownstone-python-devtools
pip install .

Available tools

Currently, available tools are:

cs_bluenet_extract_logs_strings --sourceFilesDir dir --topDir dir --outputFile file [--help] [--verbose]

This will extract logs to be used for the binary logger.

• Parameters
  • sourceFilesDir: The path with the precompiled bluenet source code files on your system (.i or .ii files)
  • topDir: The full path to the /source directory of your bluenet repository.
  • outputFile: The output file to be used by cs_bluenet_log_client (e.g. extracted_logs.json)
  • verbose: Optional. More verbose output.
  • help: Optional. Show help.

cs_bluenet_log_client --logStringsFile path --device dev [--plaintext] [--raw] [--hex] [--help] [--verbose]

This will run a logger that parses logs from a UART device.

• Parameters
  • logStringsFile: The path of the file with the extracted logs on your system.
  • device: The UART evice to use, e.g. /dev/ttyACM0.
  • plaintext: Optional. Also print plaintext logs.
  • raw: Optional. Show raw output (may result in interleaved print statements).
  • hex: Optional. Show raw output as hex values.
  • verbose: Optional. More verbose output.
  • help: Optional. Show help.

cs_microapp_create_header [-i inputFile] outputFile

Creates linker file to be used by microapps.

• Parameters
  • inputFile: Optional. The binary file to be processed to generate values for linker file.
  • outputFile: Generate .ld file with default values if no inputFile is present. If inputFile is present it will calculate the appropriate values.
  • help: Optional. Show help.

License

Open-source license

This software is provided under a noncontagious open-source license towards the open-source community. It's available under three open-source licenses:

• License: LGPL v3+, Apache, MIT

Commercial license

This software can also be provided under a commercial license. If you are not an open-source developer or are not planning to release adaptations to the code under one or multiple of the mentioned licenses, contact us to obtain a commercial license.

• License: Crownstone commercial license

Contact

For any question contact us at https://crownstone.rocks/contact/ or on our discord server through https://crownstone.rocks/forum/.