nfcpy

Is there a Beginners Guide?

Asked by Hartmut Benz

Hi Folks,
I have been looking for a 'Beginners Guide' or starter HowTO giving in a few lines how one could get nfcpy
* downloaded
* installed
* running the examples

I am looking for a simple solution pushing an application-provided URI (possibly with an Intent) via an SCM SCL3711 to a Galaxy Nexus.

Thanks for any pointers
  Hartmut

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Best Stephen Tiedemann (stephen-tiedemann) said : 		#1

Hi Hartmut,

you need to have a bazaar client ("sudo apt-get install bzr" on Ubuntu/Debian), then issue "bzr branch lp:nfcpy" to get a local copy of the trunk version. The bzr for any branch command is shown on top of the branch page.

There is no install procedure except for external packes and of course Python itself which may or may not already be available on your system. Windows installation steps are described in https://answers.launchpad.net/nfcpy/+faq/1373. On Ubuntu/Debian you might just need to "sudo apt-get install python-usb".

To run any of the examples, execute "python example.py" in the examples directory. On Linux you might need to use sudo if working with a USB connected reader such as the SCL3711.

I hope to capture this sooner of later in the documentation at http://nfcpy.org/docs.

/Stephen

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Hartmut Benz (hartmut-benz) said : 		#2

Thanks Stephen Tiedemann, that solved my question.

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Hartmut Benz (hartmut-benz) said : 		#3

thanks for the intro. I think you can just paste it into your documentation in a new page.
Sudo was not necessary, by the way.