Custom Devices

Kenzy is designed to be extensible so that you can create your own input/output/control devices. The setup is straight forward. Kenzy has devies built-in for Cameras, Microphones (Speech-to-Text), and Audio Output (Text-to-Speech), but you can all all sorts of devices such as temperature sensors, motion sensors, servo controllers, motor controllers, and more. Your imagination is the only limit!

Defining a Device Class

You can build your own devices by inheriting kenzy.GenericDevice which has the following basic structure:

import kenzy.GenericDevice

class MyCustomDevice(kenzy.GenericDevice):
    def __init__(self, **kwargs):

        self.args = kwargs
        self._isRunning = False 

        self.version = "1.0.0"

        super(MyCustomDevice, self).__init__(**kwargs)

    @property
    def accepts(self):
        return ["start","stop"] # Add "upgrade" to allow 
                                # remote "pip install --upgrade" option.

    @property
    def isRunning(self):
        return self._isRunning

    def start(self, httpRequest=None):
        self._isRunning = True
        return True

    def stop(self, httpRequest=None):
        self._isRunning = False
        return True

    def upgrade(self, httpRequest=None):
        return upgradePackage(self._packageName)

The accepts property defines the functions that are callable via the container's HTTP interface. For example, a call to "/device/{uuid}/stop" on the contaienr (or Brain) would in turn call the MyCustomDevice.stop() method on the device instance and include the inbound httpRequest as its argument. You can add new functions so long as they accept an "httpRequest" optional argument and are included in the accepts list.

Make sure to check out Device/Brain Communication for information on using the callback handler to send information to the Brain.

Adding Device to Container

import kenzy.containers

container = kenzy.containers.DeviceContainer()
container.initialize()
container.start()

myCustomDevice = MyDevice(callback=container.callbackHandler)
container.addDevice("MY_DEVICE", myCustomDevice, autoStart=True)

container.wait()

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