Alfred Arduino CLI

Python based Workflow to run the Arduino CLI from Alfred.

This project has been written as the companion example for the post https://zmoog.dev/post/alfred-workflow on my personal website.

Development

Disclaimer: this is a sample project for a blog post, so probably very few (if any!) people will be interested in it. The ROI in value for the users of me writing a comprehensive documentation, or automate the build, is probably pretty low.

Requirements

• Poetry to handle the project dependencies.
• Python 2.7 — I know, it's obsolete, but it's what Apple shipped with macOS for years, so now we're hostages.

Install required libraries

Export the requirements file from Poetry:

$ poetry export --output requirements.txt 

Install dependencies into the libs directory:

# create a libs directory to host all the dependencies
$ mkdir libs

$ pip install -r requirements.txt --target libs

Fire up a virtualenv

$ poetry shell

Test it!

$ export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
$ export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

Run a simple command like version to see if works:

$ python arduino-cli.py version
.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<items>
  <item valid="no">
    <title>0.16.0</title>
    <subtitle>version</subtitle>
  </item>
  <item valid="no">
    <title>c977a2382c2e7770b3eedc43e6a9d41f4a6c3483</title>
    <subtitle>Commit</subtitle>
  </item>
  <item valid="no">
    <title>alpha</title>
    <subtitle>Status</subtitle>
  </item>
</items>