oma-helen-cli 1.0.1

Oma Helen API library and CLI

Oma Helen CLI

An interactive CLI that logs into Oma Helen and offers functions to get contract data or electricity measurement data in JSON format.

You can also retrieve your API access-token with the get_access_token function of the CLI in case you wish to make some other API calls that are not provided by the CLI tool (see the Making a request example below). Note that the token is valid for only one hour from the login.

What is Oma Helen?

Oma Helen is the user portal for a Finnish electricity company, Helen Oy.

How to use and develop

Use virtual env to keep the project isolated. Developed using Python 3.9.9

1. In the project root folder run python -m venv .venv
2. Activate the venv with source .venv/bin/activate
3. Install requirements pip install -r requirements.txt
4. Launch the CLI as a python module python -m helenservice.cli
5. Enter your username and password as they are prompted
6. Type ? into the CLI prompt to see all available functions

Deactivate venv when not needed: deactivate

Available functions

Function name	What it does
get_api_access_token	Get the access token to the Oma Helen API. With the token, you can make queries to your own contracts and data in Oma Helen
get_contract_base_price	Get the monthly base price of your current electricity contract
get_contract_data_json	Returns the whole contract data as JSON. Will return all active contracts you have with Helen
get_contract_delivery_site_id	Get the delivery site id from the contract data
get_daily_measurements_json	Returns your daily energy consumption for the on-going month of the on-going year as JSON
get_market_prices_json	Returns the prices for the Market Price Electricity contract as JSON. The JSON includes the price for last month, the current month and next month if available
get_monthly_measurements_json	Returns your monthly energy consumption for the on-going year as JSON
calculate_the_impact_of_usage_between_dates	Calculates your impact of usage between given dates for the Helen Smart Electricity Guarantee
calculate_spot_cost_between_dates	Calculates the total costs between given dates of a spot price contract in an hourly precision
get_exchange_margin_price_json	Get the margin price of the Exchange Electricity contract
get_smart_guarantee_price_json	Get the c/kwh price of the Smart Guarantee Electricity contract

Oma Helen API example

In this example, in addition to the access-token, you are going to need your delivery site id (Consumption or Käyttöpaikka) from Oma Helen. You can get it with the CLI tool's get_contract_delivery_site_id function.

Making a request

A curl example for making a request to get the energy consumption for the on-going year. Note that the functionality of this example is already provided by the CLI tool itself

curl -iv 'https://api.omahelen.fi/v7/measurements/electricity?begin=2021-12-31T22:00:00.000Z&end=2022-12-31T21:59:59.999Z&resolution=month&delivery_site_id=<YOUR-DELIVERY-SITE-ID>&allow_transfer=true' -H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0' -H 'Accept: application/json' -H 'Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5' -H 'Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br' -H 'Authorization: Bearer <YOUR-ACCESS-TOKEN>' -H 'Origin: https://web.omahelen.fi' -H 'Connection: keep-alive' -H 'Sec-Fetch-Dest: empty' -H 'Sec-Fetch-Mode: cors' -H 'Sec-Fetch-Site: same-site' -H 'TE: trailers'

The response will look something like this

{
    "intervals":
    {
        "electricity":
        [
            {
                "start": "2021-12-31T22:00:00+00:00",
                "stop": "2022-12-31T21:59:59+00:00",
                "resolution_s": null,
                "resolution": "month",
                "unit": "kWh",
                "measurements":
                [
                    {
                        "value": 954.11,
                        "status": "valid"
                    },
                    {
                        "value": 896.8380000000009,
                        "status": "valid"
                    },
                    {
                        "value": 842.1109999999994,
                        "status": "valid"
                    },
                    {
                        "value": 739.8199999999983,
                        "status": "valid"
                    },
                    {
                        "value": 710.8099999999996,
                        "status": "valid"
                    },
                    {
                        "value": 398.8100000000003,
                        "status": "valid"
                    },
                    {
                        "value": 231.7999999999997,
                        "status": "valid"
                    },
                    {
                        "value": 287.5999999999998,
                        "status": "valid"
                    },
                    {
                        "value": 290.88,
                        "status": "valid"
                    },
                    {
                        "value": 0.0,
                        "status": "invalid"
                    },
                    {
                        "value": 0.0,
                        "status": "invalid"
                    },
                    {
                        "value": 0.0,
                        "status": "invalid"
                    }
                ]
            }
        ]
    }
}