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Python Programming with Raspberry Pi

You're reading from   Python Programming with Raspberry Pi Build small yet powerful robots and automation systems with Raspberry Pi Zero

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786467577
Length 312 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sai Yamanoor Sai Yamanoor
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Srihari Yamanoor Srihari Yamanoor
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Python and the Raspberry Pi Zero FREE CHAPTER 2. Arithmetic Operations, Loops, and Blinky Lights 3. Conditional Statements, Functions, and Lists 4. Communication Interfaces 5. Data Types and Object-Oriented Programming in Python 6. File I/O and Python Utilities 7. Requests and Web Frameworks 8. Awesome Things You Could Develop Using Python 9. Lets Build a Robot! 10. Home Automation Using the Raspberry Pi Zero 11. Tips and Tricks

Speaker controller


Let's write a Python class (tone_player.py in downloads) that plays a musical tone indicating that the boot-up of your Raspberry Pi is complete. For this section, you will need a USB sound card and a speaker interfaced to the USB hub of the Raspberry Pi.

Let's call our class TonePlayer. This class should be capable of controlling the speaker volume and playing any file passed as an argument while creating an object:

class TonePlayer(object): 
    """A Python class to play boot-up complete tone""" 

    def __init__(self, file_name): 
        self.file_name = file_name

In this case, the file that has to be played by the TonePlayer class has to be passed an argument. For example:

       tone_player = TonePlayer("/home/pi/tone.wav")

We also need to be able to set the volume level at which the tone has to be played. Let's add a method to do the same:

def set_volume(self, value): 
    """set tone sound volume""" 
    subprocess.Popen(["amixer", "set", "'PCM'", str(value)], 
    shell...
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