Async UPnP Client
Asyncio UPnP Client library for Python/asyncio.
Written initially for use in Home Assistant to drive DLNA DMR-capable devices, but useful for other projects as well.
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General set up
The UPnP Device Architecture document contains several sections describing different parts of the UPnP standard. These chapters/sections can mostly be mapped to the following modules:
- Chapter 1 Discovery
Section 1.1 SSDP: async_upnp_client.ssdp
Section 1.2 Advertisement: async_upnp_client.advertisement provides basic functionality to receive advertisements.
Section 1.3 Search: async_upnp_client.search provides basic functionality to do search requests and gather the responses.
async_upnp_client.ssdp_client contains the SsdpListener which combines advertisements and search to get the known devices and provides callbacks on changes. It is meant as something which runs continuously to provide useful information about the SSDP-active devices.
- Chapter 2 Description / Chapter 3 Control
async_upnp_client.client_factory/async_upnp_client.client provide a series of classes to get information about the device/services using the ‘description’, and interact with these devices.
async_upnp_client.server provides a series of classes to set up a UPnP server, including SSDP discovery/advertisements.
- Chapter 4 Eventing
async_upnp_client.event_handler provides functionality to handle events received from the device.
There are several ‘profiles’ which a device can implement to provide a standard interface to talk to. Some of these profiles are added to this library. The following profiles are currently available:
- Internet Gateway Device (IGD)
async_upnp_client.profiles.igd
- Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA)
async_upnp_client.profiles.dlna
- Printers
async_upnp_client.profiles.printer
For examples on how to use async_upnp_client, see examples/ .
Note that this library is most likely does not fully implement all functionality from the UPnP Device Architecture document and/or contains errors/bugs/mis-interpretations.
Contributing
See CONTRIBUTING.rst.
Development
Development is done on the development branch.
pre-commit is used to run several checks before committing. You can install pre-commit and the git-hook by doing:
$ pip install pre-commit $ pre-commit --install
The Open Connectivity Foundation provides a bundle with all UPnP Specifications.
Changes
Changes are recorded using Towncier. Once a new release is created, towncrier is used to create the file CHANGES.rst.
To create a new change run:
$ towncrier create <pr-number>.<change type>
A change type can be one of:
feature: Signifying a new feature.
bugfix: Signifying a bug fix.
doc: Signifying a documentation improvement.
removal: Signifying a deprecation or removal of public API.
misc: A ticket has been closed, but it is not of interest to users.
A new file is then created in the changes directory. Add a short description of the change to that file.
Releasing
Steps for releasing:
Switch to development: git checkout development
Do a pull: git pull
Run towncrier: towncrier build --version <version>
Commit towncrier results: git commit -m "Towncrier"
Run bump2version (note that this creates a new commit + tag): bump2version --tag major/minor/patch
Push to github: git push && git push --tags
Profiling
To do profiling it is recommended to install pytest-profiling. Then run a test with profiling enabled, and write the results to a graph:
# Run tests with profiling and svg-output enabled. This will generate prof/*.prof files, and a svg file. $ pytest --profile-svg -k test_case_insensitive_dict_profile ... # Open generated SVG file. $ xdg-open prof/combined.svg
Alternatively, you can generate a profiling data file, use pyprof2calltree to convert the data and open kcachegrind. For example:
# Run tests with profiling enabled, this will generate prof/*.prof files. $ pytest --profile -k test_case_insensitive_dict_profile ... $ pyprof2calltree -i prof/combined.prof -k launching kcachegrind
upnp-client
A command line interface is provided via the upnp-client script. This script can be used to:
call an action
subscribe to services and listen for events
show UPnP traffic (–debug-traffic) from and to the device
show pretty printed JSON (–pprint) for human readability
search for devices
listen for advertisements
The output of the script is a single line of JSON for each action-call or subscription-event. See the programs help for more information.
An example of calling an action:
$ upnp-client --pprint call-action http://192.168.178.10:49152/description.xml RC/GetVolume InstanceID=0 Channel=Master
{
"timestamp": 1531482271.5603056,
"service_id": "urn:upnp-org:serviceId:RenderingControl",
"service_type": "urn:schemas-upnp-org:service:RenderingControl:1",
"action": "GetVolume",
"in_parameters": {
"InstanceID": 0,
"Channel": "Master"
},
"out_parameters": {
"CurrentVolume": 70
}
}
An example of subscribing to all services, note that the program stays running until you stop it (ctrl-c):
$ upnp-client --pprint subscribe http://192.168.178.10:49152/description.xml \*
{
"timestamp": 1531482518.3663802,
"service_id": "urn:upnp-org:serviceId:RenderingControl",
"service_type": "urn:schemas-upnp-org:service:RenderingControl:1",
"state_variables": {
"LastChange": "<Event xmlns=\"urn:schemas-upnp-org:metadata-1-0/AVT_RCS\">\n<InstanceID val=\"0\">\n<Mute channel=\"Master\" val=\"0\"/>\n<Volume channel=\"Master\" val=\"70\"/>\n</InstanceID>\n</Event>\n"
}
}
{
"timestamp": 1531482518.366804,
"service_id": "urn:upnp-org:serviceId:RenderingControl",
"service_type": "urn:schemas-upnp-org:service:RenderingControl:1",
"state_variables": {
"Mute": false,
"Volume": 70
}
}
...
You can subscribe to list of services by providing these names or abbreviated names, such as:
$ upnp-client --pprint subscribe http://192.168.178.10:49152/description.xml RC AVTransport
An example of searching for devices:
$ upnp-client --pprint search
{
"Cache-Control": "max-age=3600",
"Date": "Sat, 27 Oct 2018 10:43:42 GMT",
"EXT": "",
"Location": "http://192.168.178.1:49152/description.xml",
"OPT": "\"http://schemas.upnp.org/upnp/1/0/\"; ns=01",
"01-NLS": "906ad736-cfc4-11e8-9c22-8bb67c653324",
"Server": "Linux/4.14.26+, UPnP/1.0, Portable SDK for UPnP devices/1.6.20.jfd5",
"X-User-Agent": "redsonic",
"ST": "upnp:rootdevice",
"USN": "uuid:e3a17dd5-9d85-3131-3c34-b827eb498d72::upnp:rootdevice",
"_timestamp": "2018-10-27 12:43:09.125408",
"_host": "192.168.178.1",
"_port": 49152
"_udn": "uuid:e3a17dd5-9d85-3131-3c34-b827eb498d72",
"_source": "search"
}
An example of listening for advertisements, note that the program stays running until you stop it (ctrl-c):
$ upnp-client --pprint advertisements
{
"Host": "239.255.255.250:1900",
"Cache-Control": "max-age=30",
"Location": "http://192.168.178.1:1900/WFADevice.xml",
"NTS": "ssdp:alive",
"Server": "POSIX, UPnP/1.0 UPnP Stack/2013.4.3.0",
"NT": "urn:schemas-wifialliance-org:device:WFADevice:1",
"USN": "uuid:99cb221c-1f15-c620-dc29-395f415623c6::urn:schemas-wifialliance-org:device:WFADevice:1",
"_timestamp": "2018-12-23 11:22:47.154293",
"_host": "192.168.178.1",
"_port": 1900
"_udn": "uuid:99cb221c-1f15-c620-dc29-395f415623c6",
"_source": "advertisement"
}
IPv6 support
IPv6 is supported for the UPnP client functionality as well as the SSDP functionality. Please do note that multicast over IPv6 does require a scope_id/interface ID. The scope_id is used to specify which interface should be used.
There are several ways to get the scope_id. Via Python this can be done via the ifaddr library. From the (Linux) command line the scope_id can be found via the ip command:
$ ip address
...
6: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:15:5d:38:97:cf brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.1.2/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global eth0
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 fe80::215:5dff:fe38:97cf/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
In this case, the interface index is 6 (start of the line) and thus the scope_id is 6.
Or on Windows using the ipconfig command:
C:\> ipconfig /all
...
Ethernet adapter Ethernet:
...
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::e530:c739:24d7:c8c7%8(Preferred)
...
The scope_id is 8 in this example, as shown after the % character at the end of the IPv6 address.
Or on macOS using the ifconfig command:
% ifconfig
...
en0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
options=50b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_HWTAGGING,AV,CHANNEL_IO>
ether 38:c9:86:30:fe:be
inet6 fe80::215:5dff:fe38:97cf%en0 prefixlen 64 secured scopeid 0x4
...
The scope_id is 4 in this example, as shown by scopeid 0x4. Note that this is a hexadecimal value.
All functionality regarding SSDP uses AddressTupleVXType to specify addresses.
For consistency, the AiohttpNotifyServer also uses AddressTupleVXType to specify the source (the address and port the notify server listens on.)
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