Swift for IoT
summary
Swift runs on Ubuntu 16.04 images for Raspberry Pi and can target BeagleBone; a prototype wires a DHT22 sensor to an Arduino-like board that sends readings over USB serial to the Pi, which controls a relay to switch a 230V lamp and streams a webcam feed. Uses SwiftyGPIO for GPIO, a homegrown Swift Linux serial wrapper to talk to /dev/tty, and MQTT with Mosquitto plus CocoaMQTT for realtime updates. Compilation can use prebuilt binaries or a six‑hour self‑build; lacks GCD so pthreads are used; GPIO can fail after repeated restarts.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction to Swift IoT
- 2:17Hardware setup
- 5:44Configuring the development
- 9:54Overcoming technical hurdles
- 13:58Software architecture
- 23:20Network communication
- 27:25Demo and Q&A
