Google Cloud IoT Core Python Samples

This directory contains samples for Google Cloud IoT Core. Google Cloud IoT Core is a fully-managed, globally distributed solution for managing devices and sending / receiving messages from devices. Set the GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT environment variable and call the script with your topic ID.

Setup

Authentication

This sample requires you to have authentication setup. Refer to the Authentication Getting Started Guide for instructions on setting up credentials for applications.

Install Dependencies

1. Clone python-docs-samples and change directory to the sample directory you want to use.

   $ git clone https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/python-docs-samples.git

2. Install pip and virtualenv if you do not already have them. You may want to refer to the Python Development Environment Setup Guide for Google Cloud Platform for instructions.

3. Create a virtualenv. Samples are compatible with Python 2.7 and 3.4+.

   $ virtualenv env
   $ source env/bin/activate

4. Install the dependencies needed to run the samples.

   $ pip install -r requirements.txt

Samples

PubSub helper

To run this sample:

$ python iam.py

usage: iam.py [-h] topic_name

This application demonstrates how programatically grant access to the
Cloud IoT Core service account on a given PubSub topic.

For more information, see https://cloud.google.com/iot.

positional arguments:
  topic_name  The PubSub topic to grant Cloud IoT Core access to

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit

The client library

This sample uses the Google Cloud Client Library for Python. You can read the documentation for more details on API usage and use GitHub to browse the source and report issues.