intellifire4py 0.9.9

An API to read the status of an intellifire wifi module

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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

This is not fully developed and you shouldn't really use it - if you DO want to use it -

# 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())

Fireplace Control

The Async Control Interface gives you the ability to directly send commands to your IFT unit. To instantiate one you will need

• ip - Fireplace ip on the network - used for initial instantiation
• username - Username (email) used in intellifire app - used for login
• password - Password - used for login

SSL Considerations

Sometimes we live in a tough SSL world and as such you can disable SSL (https) mode for communicating with iftapi.net as well as disable SSL Certificate Verification. In most cases you will not need to deal with this.

# No SSH Inspection and use HTTP mode
ift_control = IntellifireControlAsync(
	fireplace_ip=ip, 
	use_http=True, 
	verify_ssl=False
)

Local Control

Local control can take advantage of the units /post endpoint. However these commands require an ApiKey that must to be retreived from iftapi.net.

This is currently only implemnted in the IntellifireControlAsync control module.

Local control is the default state but if you need to manually set it you can use:

ift_control.send_mode = IntellifireSendMode.LOCAL

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. In order to enable this you need to set the .send_mode to something like:

ift_control.send_mode = IntellifireSendMode.CLOUD

API Overview

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.

All commands will reference a specific IntellifireFireplace, however in the case that you have a single Intellifire Device installed in your user account you can just use the .default_fireplace property

default_fireplace = ift_control.default_fireplace
print("Serial:", default_fireplace.serial)
print("APIKey:", default_fireplace.apikey)

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:

await 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.

await 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.

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

Beep

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

await control_interface.beep(fireplace=fireplace)

Thermostat

# Set to 70 and store the value internally
await ift_control.set_thermostat_f(fireplace=defualt_fireplace, temp_f=70)
# Set to 23 and store value internally
await ift_control.set_thermostat_c(fireplace=defualt_fireplace, temp_c=23)
# Turn off thermostat
await ift_control.turn_off_thermostat(fireplace=defualt_fireplace)
# Turn on thermostat and set temp to 23c as this was the last temp
await ift_control.turn_on_thermostat(fireplace=defualt_fireplace)

Sleep Timer

The sleep timer range is from (1-180 minutes). Interact as follows:

await ift_control.set_sleep_timer(fireplace=default_fp, minutes=120)
await ift_control.turn_off_sleep_timer(fireplace=default_fp, minutes=120)

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.

Sample Code

There is some sample code in example.py