PyCom uasyncio installation

Seeing multiple questions on how to install micropython-uasyncio on PyCom hardware, I decided to document the process on firmware v1.19.0.b4.

uasyncio packages and their dependencies

After flashing your PyCom hardware with v1.19.0.b4, you will need to get your device online. Here is a boot.py script that will get you connected.

We will use the upip package manager to download uasyncio to our device. Download a copy of the micropython-lib from https://github.com/micropython/micropython-lib. Upload upip.py and upip_utarfile.py to your device’s /flash/lib folder.

upload upip package manager to your device

Now you can use upip to install uasyncio packages from PyPi [eg. upip.install(‘micropython-asyncio’,’lib’)]. Some of the packages are mentioned here.

After you are done, you can try the samples from micropython-async tutorials.