class pycom – Pycom Device Features

The pycom module contains functions to control specific features of the pycom devices, such as the heartbeat RGB LED.

Quick Usage Example

import pycom

pycom.heartbeat(False)  # disable the heartbeat LED
pycom.heartbeat(True)   # enable the heartbeat LED
pycom.heartbeat()       # get the heartbeat state
pycom.rgbled(0xff00)    # make the LED light up in green color

Functions

Get or set the state (enabled or disabled) of the heartbeat LED. Accepts and returns boolean values (True or False).

Set the colour of the RGB LED. The color is specified as 24 bit value representing red, green and blue, where the red colour is represented by the 8 most significant bits. For instance, passing the value 0x00FF00 will light up the LED in a very bright green.