import smbus import time import re from datetime import datetime from influxdb import InfluxDBClient client = InfluxDBClient('192.168.1.6', 8086, 'test', 'test', 'sensor') bus = smbus.SMBus(1) address = 0x16 while True: try: now = datetime.now() data = "" for i in range(0, 40): data += chr(bus.read_byte(address)); date_time = now.strftime("%m/%d/%Y, %H:%M:%S") file = open("sensor_logs", "a") file.write(date_time +" "+ data + "\n") file.close() find_values = re.findall(r'[-]{0,1}[\d]*[\.][\d]+', data) create_list = list(map(str,find_values)) # print (create_list) # print(create_list[0]) # print(create_list[1]) # print(create_list[2]) x_value = (create_list[0]) y_value = (create_list[1]) z_value = (create_list[2]) client.write(["logg,sensor_type=lilypad x_value="+x_value+",y_value="+y_value+",z_value="+z_value+""],{'db':'sensor'},204,'line') print (date_time+ " " + data) print("\n") time.sleep(1); except KeyboardInterrupt: print("\n"+"Interrupt detected Stopping program") exit(0)