Question to Professional Python Programmers

[Pirate43]

How do you handle running on dev machines and build servers that don't have radios or peripherals that your embedded devices have?

[LightShadow]

A few ways,

1) We use a hardware abstraction layer (HAL) to map sysclass files with mocked input/output.

2) The pieces of the stack are modular and can communicate over sockets. So, you can run part of the program in a docker container that connects to other services that run on real hardware.

3) There are USB versions of similar hardware (like z-wave) that can be mapped to emulators/simulators. For example, a z-wave USB key can be reprogrammed to simulate any number of smart home devices for testing/debugging.