HS-391 - windows HS4 python support/api

[bartbakels]

windows HS4 python support/api

[DJF3]

+1

[simplextech]

+10000000000000000000000000

[lveatch]

I'm a Perl guy. When HS dropped external Perl support, they provided the JSON API. I wrote a common Perl module containing the necessary JSON API functions I need allowing for getting and setting HS data.

for example:

use Homeseer::API;
my %status_hash;

$hs = Homeseer::API->new(
    {
        server  => 'http://homeseer.local.net',
        port    => 82,
        debug   => 1,
        user    => 'asfd',
        password  => 'asdfaasfklj',
    }
);

$hs->getStatus(\%status_hash, {ref => 164, location1 => 'Living Room', location2 => '1st Floor'} );
$hs->controlDeviceByValue(\%status_hash, {ref => 164, value => 0} );
$hs->controlDeviceByLabel(\%status_hash, {ref => 164, label => 'On'} );


$hs->getStatus(\%status_hash, {ref => 164, location1 => 'Living Room', location2 => '1st Floor'} );
print "'%status_hash{'Devices'}[0]->{'name'}' is ";
print "'%status_hash{'Devices'}[0]->{'status'}'\n";

This allows me to call the Perl scripts from HS or from the command line. For example:

./getHsDevice.pl -r 1005 -a name,value
Todays Rain Amount,0.02

or

./getHsDevice.pl -f 'Todays Rain Amount'  -a ref,name,value
1005,Todays Rain Amount,0.02

[kriz83]

+1 Scripting in VB is to cumbersome.

Using the ESPHome plugin you will be able to easily publish sensor values to HomeSeer. I will publish the python script in a week or 2.

[simplextech]

This posting should clarify if the request is for a Python Scripting interface or a Python API/SDK.

Doing a JSON wrapper is possible today and a scripting interface is only half-there. A Python API to the SDK would make so many things much easier to integrate and develop actual plugins.

[Malosa]

+1

[DJF3]

+1