Quick Start for Windows users

This tutorial will help you to install Drift python client on Windows and run a simple example.

Installing Python

First of all, you need to install Python 3.8, 3.9 or 3.10. You can download it from python.org. Run the installer. After installation, you can check the version of Python by running the following command in the terminal:

py --version

Then update the pip package manager:

py -m pip install --upgrade pip

Installing DriftPythonClient

The DriftPythonClient is available on PyPI. You can install it by running the following command:

py -m pip install drift-python-client

It has prebuilt binaries for Windows, so you don't need to install any additional dependencies except Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio. You can download it from here.

Quick Check

Get metrics and raw data from Drift device

write a script quick_check.py:

import os
from datetime import datetime, timedelta

from drift_client import DriftClient

drift_client = DriftClient(os.getenv("DRIFT_DEVICE"), os.getenv("DRIFT_PASSWORD"))

print("Available topics: ", drift_client.get_topics())

start_time = datetime.utcnow() - timedelta(hours=1)
stop_time = datetime.utcnow()
metrics = drift_client.get_metrics(
    "energy-acc-1",
    start=start_time,
    stop=stop_time
)

print("Loaded %d points", len(metrics))
for point in metrics:
    print(point)

last_acc_5 = drift_client.get_package_names(
    "acc-5",
    start_time,
    stop_time)[-1]

print("Last acc-5 package: ", last_acc_5)
print("Scaled x4 times signal: ", drift_client.get_item(last_acc_5).as_np(scale_factor=2))

run script with environment variables

set DRIFT_DEVICE=<your device ip>
set DRIFT_PASSWORD=<your device password>
python quick_check.py