Introduction

What's in the Pydon Package?

What is in the package

In the download package you’ll find two folders and a few files:

README.md – short introduction
INSTALL.md – details how to install the package and its dependencies
GETTING_STARTED.md – gives a quick overview on how to start with the MiniBees you just got and how to interface with them.
MINIHIVEOSC_DOCUMENTATION.md gives an overview of the OSC interface of MiniHiveOsc, one of the ways to interface with the minibees through the SenseWorld DataNetwork
TODO.txt – (outdated) todo list for pydon
examples - folder with examples
- configuration - example configurations for pydon
- eyesweb - example patch for EyesWeb
- max - example patch for Max/MSP
- puredata - example patch for PureData
- supercollider - example scripts for SuperCollider
- vvvv - example patch for vvvv
windows - this contains scripts for installing on windows
pydon – this is the actual pydon package, with inside it:
- setup.py - the installation script
- A folder scripts – the python datanetwork client library, containing:
  - pydongui.py – an encapsulating program, providing a GUI-interface for metapydonhive.
  - pydoncli.py – an encapsulating program, providing a command line interface for metapydonhive.
- A folder pydon – the python datanetwork client library, containing:
  - pydon.py – the python datanetwork client
  - pydonhive.py – the python MiniBee management – serial communication component
  - minibeexml.py – implementing reading and writing the minibee configurations as an XML file
  - swpydonhive.py – gluing pydon.py and pydonhive.py together to a Python “hive” client to the DataNetwork. This is the program you will use to hook up your MiniBees to the DataNetwork.
  - lmpydonhive.py – gluing pydonhive.py to libmapper together to a Python “hive” libmapper client. See IDMIL’s website.
  - minihiveosc.py – a simple program to communicate to the MiniBee network with a simple OSC interface (sends the data from the minibees to one IP/port via OSC; not using the DataNetwork).
  - minihivejunxion.py – a simple program to communicate with the MiniBee network to and from Junxion with a simple OSC interface (not using the DataNetwork).
  - metapydonhive.py – an encapsulating program, where you can select one of the possible interfaces to use (datanetwork, osc, junxion, libmapper).
  - pydonguifront.py – an encapsulating program, providing a GUI-interface for metapydonhive.
  - pydonlogger.py – a helper utility to log the output into both the GUI window of pydongui, and a log file.
  - hiveserialapi.py - handling the serial API interface
  - hiveserial.py - handling the serial AT interface
  - __init__.py - python package file
- A folder configs – containing some more example configuration files.
- A folder obsolete – containing obsolete files.
pyosc.tar.gz – a compressed archive containing pyosc.
XBee-2.0.1.tar.gz – a compressed archive containing a slightly modified version of the python-xbee library.
pyserial-sensestage.tar.gz
installation.sh - a script for installation on Linux and OSX