add adafruitio_00_publish.py

Author: brentru

examples/aio_basics/adafruitio_00_publish.py

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+"""
+'adafruitio_00_publish.py'
+==========================
+Publishes an incrementing
+value to a feed
+
+Author(s): Brent Rubell, Todd Treece for Adafruit Industries
+"""
+import time
+# Import Adafruit IO REST client.
+from Adafruit_IO import Client, Feed
+
+# holds the count for the feed
+run_count = 0
+
+# Set to your Adafruit IO key.
+ADAFRUIT_IO_USERNAME = 'YOUR_AIO_USERNAME'
+ADAFRUIT_IO_KEY = 'YOUR_AIO_KEY'
+
+# Create an instance of the REST client.
+aio = Client(ADAFRUIT_IO_USERNAME, ADAFRUIT_IO_KEY)
+
+# Create a new feed named 'counter'
+feed = Feed(name="Counter")
+response = aio.create_feed(feed)
+
+
+while True:
+    print('sending count: ', run_count)
+    run_count += 1
+    aio.send_data('counter', run_count)
+    # Adafruit IO is rate-limited for publishing
+    # so we'll need a delay for calls to aio.send_data()
+    time.sleep(3)
+