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"""
The connector for i2c
__author__ = "Alex Xiao <http://www.alexxiao.me/>"
__date__ = "2017-04-22"
__version__ = "0.5"

"""
import smbus

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class connector_i2c():
    '''
        The standard I2c connector implementation
    '''
    def __init__(self,bus_num):
        '''
            bus_num: i2c bus number, start from 0
        '''
        self.bus_num=bus_num
        self.bus=smbus.SMBus(bus_num)
    
    def send(self,addr,instr,reg=0x00,mode='string'):
        '''
            send string command to address
            
            addr: the address
            in_str: the string to be sent
        '''
        if mode=='string':
            for ec in instr.encode(encoding='UTF-8'):
                self.bus.write_byte_data(addr,reg,ec)
        else:
            self.bus.write_byte_data(addr,reg,instr)
    
    def read_bytes(self,addr,length,offset=0):
        return self.bus.read_i2c_block_data(addr,offset, length)
    
    def receive(self,addr):
        '''
            Receive string from address
            
            * if no new incoming message, it will repeat the last received!
        '''
        recv=self.bus.read_i2c_block_data(addr, 0);
        rtn=''
        for ec in recv:
            if ec<255:
                rtn+=chr(ec)
        return rtn

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class tuobi_i2c():
    '''
        The I2c connector implementation for tuobi
    '''
    def __init__(self,i2c_bus_num):
        self.i2c_bus_num=i2c_bus_num
        self.i2c=connector_i2c(i2c_bus_num)
        self.last_ts=dict()
    
    def send(self,addr,instr,reg=0x00):
        '''
            send string command to address
            
            addr: the address
            in_str: the string to be sent
        '''
        if instr[-1]!=';': instr=instr+';'
        self.i2c.send(addr,instr,reg)
    
    def get(self,addr):
        '''
            Receive the string from address
            
            return: cmd, data
            
            Note: different from standard i2c interface, it will NOT repeat the last one
        '''
        if addr not in self.last_ts: self.last_ts[addr]=-1
        recv=self.i2c.receive(addr)
        rtn=None,None
        if recv[-1]==';':
            cmd,data,ts=recv[:-1].split(':')
            if self.last_ts[addr]<int(ts):
                #if newly received
                rtn=cmd,data
                self.last_ts[addr]=int(ts)
        return rtn

t=tuobi_body(0)

t.send(0x05,'FO;') t.get(0x05)

i2c=connector_i2c(0)

address=0x05 i2c.send(address,'SC;') i2c.receive(address)