intellifire4py 0.7.3

An API to read the status of an intellifire wifi module

Intellifire (New and Improved)

This is a 100% unofficial python module for working with the IntelliFire API for Intellifire WIFI Modules.

Intellifire is a wifi module for a variety of fireplaces. It has both ios/android apps - but they dont like to publish the api.

From my research I've identified 4 endpoints:

/poll /get_serial /get_challenge /post

This module will parse data from botht he /get_serial and /poll endpoints and parse the resultatn JSON into something readable.

If anybody knows more about OAuth and wants to help me reverse engineer the control endpoints I'd love the help!

Hit me up on github: https://github.com/jeeftor

Local Polling

Both Intellifire and IntellifireAsync classes will poll an intellifire interface on the local network for a read-only view of the device. All that is required is the ip address. If you need to discover that see further on in this document.

Sync

# Define an intellifre instance
fire = Intellifire("192.168.1.80")

# Poll to update the internal data source
fire.poll()

# Print out all values
print(fire.data)    

Async

async def main():
    fire = IntellifireAsync("127.0.0.1")
    await fire.poll()

    # Poll the fire
    print(f"{fire.data.temperature_c} c")
    print(f"{fire.data.temperature_f} f")
    print(f"{fire.data.thermostat_setpoint_c} c")
    print(f"{fire.data.thermostat_setpoint_f} f")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
    loop.run_until_complete(main())

Local Control

The Intellifire unit has the ability to accept local control commands on the /post endpoint. However there is some cloud access as an ApiKey needs to be extracted from iftapi.net.

Local control is currently not yet implemented

Cloud Control

Taking advantage of the iftapi.net REST API - the module can send commands to the cloud in order to control a specific fireplace. Conceptually the API is divided into Users who have control of Locations which contain Fireplaces.

┌───────────┐
│   Users   │ 
└─────┬─────┘
      │      
      │      
┌─────▼─────┐
│ Location  │ 
└─────┬─────┘
      │      
      │      
┌─────▼─────┐
│ Fireplace │
└───────────┘

The IFT-API requires cookie based authentication for sending control commands via its REST API endpoint. These cookies are generated by the login method:

username = os.environ['IFT_USER']
password = os.environ['IFT_PASS']

# Init and login
control_interface = IntellifireControl(fireplace_ip='192.168.1.65')
control_interface.login(username=username, password=password)

Once the login is complete all further control requests will use the cookies to authenticate and control things.

Power (Flame on/off)

The following calls will toggle the flame on or off:

control_interface.flame_on(fireplace=fireplace)
control_interface.flame_off(fireplace=fireplace)

Flame Height

You can control the flame height with set_flame_height method. Height ranges from 0 to 4:

control_interface.set_flame_height(fireplace=fireplace, height=3)

Fan Speed

Fan speed is controled via the set_fan_speed method. Valid ranges for speed 0 to 4.

control_interface.set_fan_speed(fireplace=fireplace, speed=1)

Lights

You can control lights with set_lights method. Valid ranges for level are 0 to 3.

control_interface.set_lights(fireplace=fireplace, speed=1)

Beep

Apparently, if the fireplace is on (flame on) you can send a beep.

control_interface.beep(fireplace=fireplace)

Control Exceptions

• LoginException - problem with the login process (username/password).
• InputRangeException - control value is out of valid range.
• ApiCallException - Some sort of api exception occured.

Where have all the firepalces gone!

The fireplace moduels are configured to respond to a specific UDP packet and return information. As such we can discover fireplaces on the network. Currently this will only return the ip address of the first fireplace to respond... (oh well).

# Creates a Fireplace Finder
finder = UDPFireplaceFinder()
# Prints IP of first fireplace to respond
print(finder.search_fireplace())

TODO: Listen for a set time and return a list of all fireplaces that respond.