switch.wemo

switch.wemo#

Description#

Plugin to control a Belkin WeMo smart switches (https://www.belkin.com/us/Products/home-automation/c/wemo-home-automation/)

This plugin previously used ouimeaux for auto-discovery, but it’s been dropped because:

  1. Too slow

  2. Too heavy

  3. Auto-discovery failed too often

However, this also means that you now have to specify either:

  • devices: The devices you want to control, as a static list/map

  • netmask: The IP netmask that should be scanned for WeMo devices

Configuration#

switch.wemo:
  # [Optional]
  # List of IP addresses or name->address map containing
  # the WeMo Switch devices to control.
  # devices:   # type=Union[Collection[str], Mapping[str, str], NoneType]

  # [Optional]
  # Alternatively to a list of static IP->name pairs,  you
  # can specify the network mask where the devices should be scanned
  # (e.g. '192.168.1.0/24')
  # netmask:   # type=Optional[str]

  # [Optional]
  # Port where the WeMo devices are expected to expose the
  # RPC/XML over HTTP service (default: 49153)
  # port: 49153  # type=int

  # [Optional]
  # How often the `RunnablePlugin.loop <https://docs.platypush.tech/platypush/plugins/.html#platypush.plugins.RunnablePlugin.loop>`_ function should be
  # executed (default: 15 seconds). *NOTE*: For back-compatibility
  # reasons, the `poll_seconds` argument is also supported, but it's
  # deprecated.
  # poll_interval: 15  # type=Optional[float]

  # [Optional]
  # How long we should wait for any running
  # threads/processes to stop before exiting (default: 5 seconds).
  # stop_timeout: 5  # type=Optional[float]

  # [Optional]
  # If set to True then the plugin will not monitor
  # for new events. This is useful if you want to run a plugin in
  # stateless mode and only leverage its actions, without triggering any
  # events. Defaults to False.
  # disable_monitor: False  # type=bool

Actions#

Module reference#

class platypush.plugins.switch.wemo.SwitchWemoPlugin(*_, **__)[source]#

Bases: RunnablePlugin, SwitchEntityManager

Plugin to control a Belkin WeMo smart switches (https://www.belkin.com/us/Products/home-automation/c/wemo-home-automation/)

__init__(devices: Collection[str] | Mapping[str, str] | None = None, netmask: str | None = None, port: int = 49153, **kwargs)[source]#

This plugin previously used ouimeaux for auto-discovery, but it’s been dropped because:

  1. Too slow

  2. Too heavy

  3. Auto-discovery failed too often

However, this also means that you now have to specify either:

  • devices: The devices you want to control, as a static list/map

  • netmask: The IP netmask that should be scanned for WeMo devices

Parameters:

  • devices (list or dict) – List of IP addresses or name->address map containing the WeMo Switch devices to control.

  • netmask – Alternatively to a list of static IP->name pairs, you can specify the network mask where the devices should be scanned (e.g. ‘192.168.1.0/24’)

  • port – Port where the WeMo devices are expected to expose the RPC/XML over HTTP service (default: 49153)

get_name(device: str)[source]#

Get the friendly name of a device

Parameters:

device – Device name or address

get_state(device: str)[source]#

Get the on state of a device (True/False)

Parameters:

device – Device name or address

off(device: str, **_)[source]#

Turn a switch off

Parameters:

device – Device name or address

on(device: str, **_)[source]#

Turn a switch on

Parameters:

device – Device name or address

publish_entities(entities: Collection[Any] | None, callback: Callable[[Entity], Any] | None = None, **kwargs) → Collection[Entity]#

Publishes a list of entities. The downstream consumers include:

It also accepts an optional callback that will be called when each of the entities in the set is flushed to the database.

You usually don’t need to override this class (but you may want to extend transform_entities() instead if your extension doesn’t natively handle Entity objects).

set(entity: str, value: Any, **kwargs)#

Set the value of an entity.

Parameters:

  • entity – The entity to set the value for. It’s usually the ID of the entity provided by the plugin.

  • value – The value to set the entity to.

status(device: str | Collection[str] | None = None, publish_entities: bool = True, **__) → List[dict][source]#

All derived classes should implement this method.

At the very least, this method should refresh the current state of the integration’s entities and call publish_entities().

It should also return the current state of the entities as a list of serialized entities, if possible.

toggle(device: str, *_, **__)[source]#

Toggle a device on/off state

Parameters:

device – Device name or address

transform_entities(entities: Collection[dict]) → List[Entity][source]#

This method takes a list of entities in any (plugin-specific) format and converts them into a standardized collection of Entity objects. Since this method is called by publish_entities() before entity updates are published, you may usually want to extend it to pre-process the entities managed by your extension into the standard format before they are stored and published to all the consumers.

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