Introduction
The Pyaler project has been inspired by Yaler, which goal is to provide a facility enabling HTTP querying of Arduinos.
A prototyping platform, as powerful as it can be, always needs serious and boring work to be accessible from the network. So we had the idea to move that problem from the platform itself towards a server and this way, take advantage of its power.
Pyaler is a Python gateway enabling one or several Arduinos to communicate through a RESTful API. It enables you to connect and integrate easily and smoothly electronic designs with web applications. Using a configuration system built with Yaml, you can connect a whole Arduino farm to a single webserver and adress all of them as if they were one.
Overview
Pyaler is a 100% pure Python product and relies on the web framework Bottle for the RESTful API and on PySerial for the serial connection to the arduino.
Pyaler works that way :
1. Define the names associated with the serial interfaces of the arduinos you want to connect to
2. Launch Pyaler so it listens to your favorite port
3. Update arduino's code so you can interoperate with it through the serial connection
4. Use Pyaler's RESTful interface from your client application
