idasen 0.2.0

ikea IDÅSEN desk API and CLI.

This is a heavily modified fork of rhyst/idasen-controller.

The IDÅSEN is an electric sitting standing desk with a Linak controller sold by ikea.

The position of the desk can controlled by a physical switch on the desk or via bluetooth using an phone app.

This is a command line interface written in python to control the Idasen via bluetooth from a desktop computer.

Set Up

Prerequisites

The desk should be connected and paired to the computer.

Install

python3.8 -m pip install --upgrade idasen

Developers Install

Development is done with poetry, a virtual environment manager. First, install poetry using their guide.

Then install all the packages using poetry install:

poetry install

To install this as a command avaliable from the system build the package then install it with pip:

poetry build
python3.8 -m pip install dist/idasen-0.2.0-py3-none-any.whl

Configuration

Configuration that is not expected to change frequency can be provided via a YAML configuraiton file located at ~/.config/idasen/idasen.yaml.

You can use this command to initialize a new configuartion file:

idasen init

Configuartion options:

• mac_address - The MAC address of the desk. This is required.

• stand_height - The standing height from the floor of the desk in meters.

• sit_height - The standing height from the floor of the desk in meters.

Device MAC addresses can be found using blueoothctl and blueooth adapter names can be found with hcitool dev on linux.

Usage

Command Line

To print the current desk height:

idasen height

To monitor for changes to height :

idasen monitor

Assuming the config file is populated to move the desk to standing position:

idasen stand

Assuming the config file is populated to move the desk to sitting position:

idasen sit