Management Client for NEC M-Series and ME-Series video displays

The NEC M-Series and ME-Series video displays support remote management either over a TCP/IP connection or over a serial port. This is an async Python library implementing that protocol, currently only over TCP/IP.

In particular, this library should support the following models:

• NEC M431
• NEC M491
• NEC M551
• NEC M651
• NEC ME431
• NEC ME501
• NEC ME551
• NEC ME651

It might support other models if they follow the same protocol, but this library was developed based on documentation focused only on those models.

Command Line Tool

This package contains a simple command line tool that's mainly just an example of how to perform some of the supported operations, but might also be of some real use.

The tool returns its own usage information if run without any arguments:

python -m necme

For example, to retrieve the model number, serial number, and current firmware version of a monitor accessible from a controller at 192.0.2.1:

python -m necme 192.0.2.0 info

Library

The main purpose of this package is to provide a library for controlling a display from other software.

The typical way to use it is to first instantiate a controller object by connecting to the display in question:

ctrl = await Controller.connect_tcpip('192.0.2.1')

If connecting succeeds, and if you know that the given IP address refers to the controller of only a single display (which is typical when using TCP/IP), you can then probe for the id of the connected monitor and obtain a communication channel for that monitor id:

monitor = await ctrl.probe_open_one_monitor()

You can then perform operations against that monitor. For example:

serial_no = await monitor.read_serial_no()