Giants Software USB Beacon

This is a small script to control the Giants Software USB Beacon with Python.

Installation

install the requirements.txt

pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

To make the LEDs light up in a circle use:

import giants_beacon

Beacon = giants_beacon.GiantsBeacon()
Beacon.device_state("round")  # can be "round", "blink" or "off"

The device_state can be "round", "blink" or "off".

The Beacon will be turned off after 10 seconds automatically. If you want to let the beacon turn on permanently, just send the command "device_state" every 3 seconds. If you want to turn off the beacon earlier, just send device_state("off").

Thanks

Thanks to "steve228uk". His Gist helped me a lot to understand whats going on.

Thanks to libusb/hidapi for the USB communication tool.

License

MIT