Socket() in spike prime

[techcatgato]

Hey, I know it is possible to use socket() with EV3 but is it somehow possible with spike prime too? I want to establish a connection between the hub and pc that way so the pc can use regular python.

[dlech]

On SPIKE Prime we currently only support Bluetooth Low Energy. So RFCOMM socket isn't possible.

But we recently did add a new AppData class that can be used to communicate to a PC if you want to help test that out. I don't think it hasn't really been documented or included in any official releases so it could be a bit of work to figure out how to use it at this point though.

[techcatgato]

So there is no place to learn about this right now but it exists right?

[dlech]

This is the pull request where the feature was added: pybricks/pybricks-micropython#246 with an example hub program in pybricks/pybricks-micropython#246 (comment).

It doesn't look like we've added anything to pybricksdev to show how the PC side of things would work yet though.

[techcatgato]

How can it be received by the pc in a regular python script?

[laurensvalk]

Here is a tutorial to communicate between the hub and a computer running Python, via Bluetooth: https://pybricks.com/projects/tutorials/wireless/hub-to-device/pc-communication/

[techcatgato]

Can this be used while the robot is running normal code?

[dlech]

yes