Adafruit_CircuitPython_RFM69: A Python repository from Pythonaire

Introduction

CircuitPython RFM69 packet radio module. This supports basic RadioHead-compatible sending and receiving of packets with RFM69 series radios (433/915Mhz).

Warning

This is NOT for LoRa radios!

Note

This is a 'best effort' at receiving data using pure Python code--there is not interrupt support so you might lose packets if they're sent too quickly for the board to process them. You will have the most luck using this in simple low bandwidth scenarios like sending and receiving a 60 byte packet at a time--don't try to receive many kilobytes of data at a time!

Dependencies

This driver depends on:

Please ensure all dependencies are available on the CircuitPython filesystem. This is easily achieved by downloading the Adafruit library and driver bundle.

Installing from PyPI

On supported GNU/Linux systems like the Raspberry Pi, you can install the driver locally from PyPI. To install for current user:

pip3 install adafruit-circuitpython-rfm69

To install system-wide (this may be required in some cases):

sudo pip3 install adafruit-circuitpython-rfm69

To install in a virtual environment in your current project:

mkdir project-name && cd project-name
python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip3 install adafruit-circuitpython-rfm69

Usage Example

See examples/rfm69_simpletest.py for a simple demo of the usage. Note: the default baudrate for the SPI is 2000000 (2MHz). The maximum setting is 10Mhz but transmission errors have been observed expecially when using breakout boards. For breakout boards or other configurations where the boards are separated, it may be necessary to reduce the baudrate for reliable data transmission. The baud rate may be specified as an keyword parameter when initializing the board. To set it to 1000000 use :

# Initialze RFM radio
rfm9x = adafruit_rfm9x.RFM9x(spi, CS, RESET, RADIO_FREQ_MHZ,baudrate=1000000)

Documentation

API documentation for this library can be found on Read the Docs.

For information on building library documentation, please check out this guide.

Contributing