hwd

hwd wraps around pyudev‘s Device objects to provide functionality specific to different types of hardware. Currently, hwd provides a base wrapper class that provides common information such as bus, vendor, and model, and classes for wrapping storage and network devices.

hwd is being developed at Outernet specifically for integration of hardware management functionality into Librarian that runs on Outernet receives. As such, there are no plans for adding support for devices that are common on personal computers.

Installing

hwd is in early development, and is therefore not yet published on a PyPI repository. To install the latest development version from GitHub, use this command:

pip install https://github.com/Outernet-Project/hwd/archive/develop.zip

Basic usage

To use the wrapper classes, you need pyudev.Device objects. You can obtain them using pyudev API, or using the devices_by_subsystem() helper function.

Once you have one or more Device objects, you can instantiate the wrapper classes, passing the Device object to the constructor.

API documentation

• Base wrapper class
  • Basic usage
  • Module contents
• Network device wrappers
  • Basic usage
  • Module contents
• Storage device wrappers
  • Quick example
  • Module contents
• udev helpers