I'm using Thonny, if there are better IDE's for working with python on microcontrollers definitely open to suggestions.
I have a node.js server using socket.io and express websocket server, that is correctly responding to clients.
For instance if I wrote a standard python socketio script like this, everything behaves as expected
import socketio
import asyncio
import requests
sio = socketio.Client()
uri = "ws://127.0.0.1:443"
@sio.event
def message(data):
print(f'{data}')
@sio.event
def connect():
print("I'm connected!")
@sio.event
def connect_error(data):
print("The connection failed!")
@sio.event
def disconnect():
print("I'm disconnected!")
sio.connect('ws://localhost:443')
This logs the messages as expected when I connect to the server.
However, I want this code to run on my Raspberry Pi Pico W so the standard interpreter and way importing third party modules doesn't work.
If I try to regularly import it, and use the microcontroller interpreter
import socketio
I get this error
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/lib/socketio/__init__.py", line 3, in <module>
File "/lib/socketio/client.py", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: no module named 'itertools'
Which leads me to believe the module is being ran without it's dependencies because my local python interpreter runs this fine.
I came across this install tool called mip
However I can't get it working for third party packages. For instance this:
import mip
mip.install("https://github.com/miguelgrinberg/python-socketio/tree/main/src/socketio", mpy=False)
Throws the error below
Installing https://github.com/miguelgrinberg/python-socketio/tree/main/src/socketio/package.json to /lib
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 2, in <module>
File "mip/__init__.py", line 1, in install
File "mip/__init__.py", line 1, in _install_package
File "mip/__init__.py", line 1, in _install_json
File "urequests.py", line 180, in get
File "urequests.py", line 76, in request
OSError: -6
I tried doing this in the actual script and in the REPL.
I'm hoping for a solution to use my microcontroller as a socket.io client and write to my pins based on messages from a nodejs server
