bosch-shc-camera-client 0.3.0

Async Python client library for Bosch Smart Home Camera cloud + local (RCP) APIs.

bosch-shc-camera-client

Async Python client library for Bosch Smart Home Camera cloud + local (RCP) APIs.

Extracted from the Bosch Smart Home Camera Tool integration family (Home Assistant, ioBroker, Python CLI, MCP, Node-RED, NiceGUI frontend) so every consumer shares one maintained implementation instead of duplicating the client logic per platform.

Status: early extraction in progress. Not yet feature-complete versus the inline modules it's replacing.

Scope

• Local RCP protocol read access over /rcp.xml (Gen2 camera on-device control plane), read-only.
• HTTP Digest authentication (RFC 7616/2617) — auth_utils.async_digest_request, used for local camera LAN endpoints that require Digest auth.
• Bosch cloud API (residential.cbs.boschsecurity.com): auth, video inputs, motion zones, privacy masks, rules, friends/sharing, firmware, lighting — planned, not yet extracted (shc.py/rcp.py in the source integration are coupled to a hass/coordinator-provided aiohttp.ClientSession and coordinator-owned caches; need a session-injection + cache-redesign refactor before they can move here cleanly — see the source repo's knowledge-base/ha-core-submission-plan.md for the concrete spec).

Out of scope (stays integration-specific, not extracted here): FCM push-notification plumbing tied to Home Assistant's recorder/snapshot-store internals, anything HA-entity-shaped, and the SMB/FTP export helpers (smb.py) — those reach into the HA integration's coordinator object directly (coordinator.hass, coordinator.options, private state) rather than being a standalone API client, so they don't belong in a generic library without their own decoupling pass first.

Install

pip install bosch-shc-camera-client

License

MIT, see LICENSE.