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Python wrapper for Telldus' home automation library

Project description

tellcore-py is a Python wrapper for Telldus’ home automation library Telldus Core.

Features

  • Wraps the C-interface with a python interface (with classes and exceptions).

  • Automatically frees memory for returned strings.

  • Throws an exception (TelldusError) in case a library function returns an error.

  • Supports python 3 with automatic handling of strings (i.e. converting between bytes used by the C-library and strings as used by python).

  • Takes care of making callbacks from the library thread-safe.

  • Unit tested.

Users

  • Tellprox - A local server to use in place of Tellstick Live

Example

A simple example for adding a new “lamp” device, turning it on and then turning all devices off.

from tellcore.telldus import TelldusCore

core = TelldusCore()
lamp = core.add_device("lamp", "arctech", "selflearning-switch", house=12345, unit=1)
lamp.turn_on()

for device in core.devices():
    device.turn_off()

Internals

At the bottom there is the Library class which is a ctypes wrapper and closely matches the API of the underlying Telldus Core library. The library class takes care of freeing memory returned from the base library and converts errors returned to TelldusException. The library class is not intended to be used directly.

Instead, the TelldusCore class provides a more python-ish API on top of the library class. This class is used for e.g. adding new devices, or enumerating the existing devices, sensors and/or controllers. E.g. calling the devices() method returns a list of Device instances. The Device class in turn has methods for turning the device on, off, etc.

TODO

  • Improve documentation.

  • Add high level support for device groups.

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