In the past our API Bindings installation and usage guides did assume that a user already knows one of our languages. In the last days we improved the old documentation considerably. It should now be possible to to install the API Bindings and test an example as a novice without having to look it up anything somewhere else.
You can find links to the usage and install guides for each language in our documentation.
One suggestions we got very often in the past was to use packages and package repositories for languages that have this feature. At first we didn’t like the idea since all of our Bindings are automatically generated and uploading a package to a repository adds an otherwise unnecessary manual step to the process of releasing new Bindings.
However, we got so many requests that we decided to add packages to repositories where it is easily possible for us. Currently we support Maven (Java), NPM (JavaScript), CPAN (Perl), PyPI (Python) and GEM (Ruby). This means, that you can install and update the Bindings for each these languages with one simple command line one-liner.
Java - Maven
Add dependency to your pom.xml
JavaScript - NPM
> npm -g install tinkerforge
Perl - CPAN
> cpanm Tinkerforge
Python - PyPI
> pip install tinkerforge
Ruby - GEM
> gem install tinkerforge