PYCOM LoPy and FiPy are MC boards based on ESP32 SOC with additional communication options.

Wifi and BLE are intrinsic to ESP32. FiPy additionally provides LoRa, SigFox and NB-IoT / LTE-M. LoPy has LoRa.

PYCOM modules are programmable in the Python dialect MicroPython.

• https://pycom.io/product/fipy/
• https://docs.pycom.io/datasheets/development/fipy

One of the base boards we are using is pysense: https://docs.pycom.io/product-info-datasheets/boards/pysense

PYCOM modules run on micropython: https://boneskull.com/micropython-on-esp32-part-1/

Interrupt handling on PYCOM: https://docs.pycom.io/firmware-and-api-reference/notes#interrupt-handling

Networking, all channels: https://docs.pycom.io/firmware-and-api-reference/pycom/network

LoRa: https://docs.pycom.io/firmware-and-api-reference/pycom/network/lora

LTE: https://docs.pycom.io/firmware-and-api-reference/pycom/network/lte

https://github.com/brocaar/pycom-examples/blob/master/pysense-example/main.py

https://docs.pycom.io/pytrack-pysense-pyscan/apireference/pysense

An excelent tutorial on MQTT with io.adafruit.com based on PYCOM

• https://core-electronics.com.au/tutorials/internet-of-things-with-pycom-and-adafruit-io.html

More important info

• https://forum.pycom.io/topic/3594/how-to-deep-sleep-with-sipy-pysense-3-7v-lipo/5
• https://forum.pycom.io/topic/2068/sending-data-from-lopy-to-a-webserver/2

https://docs.pycom.io/pymakr/settings

The pymakr.json file stores the global settings (not individual project settings) under
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Code\User

pymakr.json

{
	"address": "COM25",
	"username": "micro",
	"password": "python",
	"sync_folder": "",
	"open_on_start": true,
	"safe_boot_on_upload": false,
	"sync_file_types": "py,txt,log,json,xml,html,js,css,mpy",
	"ctrl_c_on_connect": false,
	"sync_all_file_types": false,
	"auto_connect": false
}

pymakr.json

{
	"address": "192.168.4.1",
	"username": "micro",
	"password": "python",
	"sync_folder": "",
	"open_on_start": true,
	"safe_boot_on_upload": false,
	"sync_file_types": "py,txt,log,json,xml,html,js,css,mpy",
	"ctrl_c_on_connect": false,
	"sync_all_file_types": false,
	"auto_connect": false
}