aioxiaomi

aioxiaomi is a Python 3/asyncio library to control Xiaomi Yeelight LED lightbulbs over your LAN.

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Installation

We are on PyPi so

 pip3 install aioxiaomi

or python3 -m pip install aioxiaomi

How to use

Essentially, you create an object with at least 2 methods:

- register
- unregister

You then start the XiaomiDiscovery task in asyncio with a callback that will create and .activate() any new bulb. Upon connection with the bulb, it will register itself with the parent. All the method communicating with the bulb can be passed a callback function to react to the bulb response. The callback should take 2 parameters:

- a light object
- the response message

Checkout main.py to see how it works.

In essence, the test program is this

class bulbs():
""" A simple class with a register and  unregister methods
"""
    def __init__(self):
        self.bulbs=[]
        self.pending_bulbs = []

    def register(self,bulb):
        self.bulbs.append(bulb)
        try:
            self.pending_bulbs.remove(bulb)
        except:
            pass

    def unregister(self,bulb):
        idx=0
        for x in list([ y.bulb_id for y in self.bulbs]):
            if x == bulb.bulb_id:
                del(self.bulbs[idx])
                break
            idx+=1

    def new_bulb(self, sender, **kwargs):
        newbulb = aiox.XiaomiBulb(aio.get_event_loop(),kwargs['headers'],self)
        found = False
        for x in self.bulbs:
            if x.bulb_id == newbulb.bulb_id:
                found = True
                break
        if not found:
            for x in self.pending_bulbs:
                if x.bulb_id == newbulb.bulb_id:
                    found = True
                    break
        if not found:
            newbulb.activate()
        else:
            del(newbulb)


def readin():
"""Reading from stdin and displaying menu"""

    selection = sys.stdin.readline().strip("\n")
    DoSomething()

MyBulbs= bulbs()
loop = aio.get_event_loop()
coro = aiox.start_xiaomi_discovery(MyBulbs.new_bulb)
transp, server = loop.run_until_complete(coro)
try:
    loop.add_reader(sys.stdin,readin)
    server.broadcast(2)
    loop.run_forever()
except:
    pass
finally:
    server.cancel()
    loop.remove_reader(sys.stdin)
    loop.close()

Other things worth noting:

- Whilst XiaomiDiscover uses UDP broadcast, the bulbs are
  connected with Unicast TCP

- Xiaomi allows only about 1 command per second per connection. To counter that,
  one can start more than one connection to a bulb. There is a limit of
  4 connections per bulb, but given that there can only be 144 command per minute
  per bulb, only 2 connections can be handled without starting to overload the bulb.
  Use .set_connection(x) before activate to set the number of connections

- aioxiaomi ensure that there is at most 1 command per second per connection. To do so
  it keeps a buffer of messages and pace the sending (using round-robin if there is more
  then one connection). The buffer can thus become quite big. To control this, one can
  specify a maximum buffer length and what to do with messages that comes when the buffer
  is full. Use set_queue_limit(length,policy) to control.
            length is the maximum number of commands waiting to be sent
            policy defines what to do with the extra packets:
                drop: just drop them
                head: queue them but discard the head of the queue
                random: queue the message then discard a random element of the queue
                adapt: switch to the so-called "music mode" and dump all the messages.
                       After 5 secs inactivity, the "music mode" is cancelled

- The socket connecting to a bulb is not closed unless the bulb is deemed to have
  gone the way of the Dodo.

- I only have "Color" model, so I could not test with other types
  of bulbs