cflib is an API written in Python that is used to communicate with the Crazyflie and Crazyflie 2.0 quadcopters. It is intended to be used by client software to communicate with and control a Crazyflie quadcopter. For instance the cfclient Crazyflie PC client uses the cflib.
For more info see our wiki.
See bellow for platform specific instruction.
In this section you should replace python by the version you are using
(usually either python2 or python3). Installing for cfclient requires python3
The only dependency is pyusb:
python -m pip install "pyusb>=1.0.0b2"
To install cflib as a system-wide library (as root):
python setup.py install
To install cflib as a system-wide library (as user):
python -m pip install --user -e .
To install cflib in development mode where you can then edit the code on place:
python -m pip install -e .
To uninstall any of the above:
python -m pip uninstall cflib
Examples on how to use cflib to communicate with Crazyflie can be found in the example folder. To run the example you should install cflib following the installation section.
To install the Crazyflie PC client in Linux, you can run the setup script with:
sudo setup_linux.sh
This will install the Crazyflie lib system-wide, create a udev entry for the Crazyradio and setup the permissions so that the current user can use the radio without root permissions after restarting the computer.
Everyone is encouraged to contribute to the CrazyFlie library by forking the Github repository and making a pull request or opening an issue.