Interactive console with operational code



  • Hello

    I've worked with esp32 in C and there is a capability where you can add a console component to your esp32 C app.

    Its handy to interact with your code while its running. You create new commands and these commands can call functions in your firmware.

    On pycom if hit ctrl-c in my app, I can interact with the python interpeter to import files and then run them. However I can't interact with them afterwards. Is there a method similar to the C method for esp32 to get something similar? Perhaps its just as simple to periodically call get input and write my own console. Before I do that I was wondering something already exists. Any pointers would be grand.

    I'm particulary interested in this as I explore bluetooth on pycom.



  • @netskink said in Interactive console with operational code:

    I've worked with esp32 in C and there is a capability where you can add a console component to your esp32 C app.

    Given that C is a compiled language, this is hard to understand for me. So I assume it's some kind of firmware/application package which is running in the device. Still, the ESP32 does not have a general purpose Operating System.
    If you want to have the Python console while an application code is running, you can start that application in a new thread and terminate the thread which started it. Then you will get the REPL prompt again. But this is not general multitasking, just a method to run several tasks at the same time.



  • Hi,
    Im not exactly sure what you mean, but it is possible to type python commands into the REPL window after clicking run. If I create a code that does:

    include time
    while(1):
        time.sleep(1)
    

    And then click run, the >>> dissappear, but it is still possible to execute python commands in the microcontrollers' spare time. Only struggle is when your device keeps printing in between.
    Gijs


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