pysonofflan 0.1.2

Interface for Sonoff devices running original Itead firmware, in LAN mode.

Control Sonoff devices running original firmware, in LAN mode.

This module provides a way to interface with Sonoff smart home devices, such as smart switches (e.g. Sonoff Basic), plugs (e.g. Sonoff S20), and wall switches (e.g. Sonoff Touch), when these devices are in LAN Mode.

LAN Mode is a feature introduced by manufacturer Itead, to allow operation locally when their servers are unavailable. Further details can be found in the eWeLink LAN Mode guide.

Since mid 2018, the firmware Itead have shipped with most Sonoff devices has provided this feature, allowing devices to be controlled directly on the local network using a WebSocket connection on port 8081.

The feature is designed to only be used when there is no connection to the Itead cloud servers, (e.g. if your internet connection is down, or their servers are down). As such, it is only enabled when the device is connected to your WiFi network, but unable to reach the Itead servers.

Most users will only be able to use this by deliberately blocking internet access to their Sonoff devices.

• Free software: MIT license

• Documentation: https://pysonofflan.readthedocs.io.

Features

• Discover all devices on local network (192.168.0.0/24, 192.168.1.0/24)

• Discover IP address for device with known Device ID (from eWeLink app)

• Read device state

• Switch device ON/OFF

• Listen for state changes announced by the device (e.g. by physical switch)

• Activate inching/momentary device, with variable ON time (e.g. 1s)

Command-Line Usage

Usage: pysonofflan [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

  A cli tool for controlling Sonoff Smart Switches/Plugs in LAN Mode.

Options:
  --host TEXT          IP address or hostname of the device to connect to.
  --device_id TEXT     Device ID of the device to connect to.
  --inching TEXT       Number of seconds of "on" time if this is an
                       Inching/Momentary switch.
  -v, --verbosity LVL  Either CRITICAL, ERROR, WARNING, INFO or DEBUG
  --help               Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  discover  Discover devices in the network (takes ~1...
  listen    Connect to device, print state, then print...
  off       Turn the device off.
  on        Turn the device on.
  state     Connect to device and print current state.

Install / Usage Example

$ pip install pysonofflan

$ pysonofflan discover
2019-01-31 00:45:32,074 - info: Attempting to discover Sonoff LAN Mode devices on the local network, please wait...
2019-01-31 00:46:24,007 - info: Found Sonoff LAN Mode device at IP 192.168.0.77

$ pysonofflan --host 192.168.0.77 state
2019-01-31 00:41:34,931 - info: Initialising SonoffSwitch with host 192.168.0.77
2019-01-31 00:41:35,016 - info: == Device: 10006866e9 (192.168.0.77) ==
2019-01-31 00:41:35,016 - info: State: OFF

$ pysonofflan --host 192.168.0.77 on
2019-01-31 00:49:40,334 - info: Initialising SonoffSwitch with host 192.168.0.77
2019-01-31 00:49:40,508 - info:
2019-01-31 00:49:40,508 - info: Initial state:
2019-01-31 00:49:40,508 - info: == Device: 10006866e9 (192.168.0.77) ==
2019-01-31 00:49:40,508 - info: State: OFF
2019-01-31 00:49:40,508 - info:
2019-01-31 00:49:40,508 - info: New state:
2019-01-31 00:49:40,508 - info: == Device: 10006866e9 (192.168.0.77) ==
2019-01-31 00:49:40,508 - info: State: ON

Library Usage

All common, shared functionality is available through SonoffSwitch class:

x = SonoffSwitch("192.168.1.50")

Upon instantiating the SonoffSwitch class, a connection is initiated and device state is populated, but no further action is taken.

For most use cases, you’ll want to make use of the callback_after_update parameter to do something with the device after a connection has been initialised, for example:

async def print_state_callback(device):
    if device.basic_info is not None:
        print("ON" if device.is_on else "OFF")
        device.shutdown_event_loop()

SonoffSwitch(
    host="192.168.1.50",
    callback_after_update=print_state_callback
)

This example simply connects to the device, prints whether it is currently “ON” or “OFF”, then closes the connection. Note, the callback must be asynchronous.

Module-specific errors are raised as Exceptions, and are expected to be handled by the user of the library.

Credits

This package was created with Cookiecutter and the audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage project template.

History

0.1.2 (2019-01-31)

• Fixed documentation build for ReadTheDocs

• Fixed restructuredtext in history which was breaking PyPi formatting

0.1.1 (2019-01-30)

• Improved discovery logging

• Added documentation

• Fixed tests

0.1.0 (2019-01-27)

• First release on PyPI.

• Basic functional CLI client, to allow basic control (on, off, check state)

• Added comprehensive logging with verbosity option to help debug new devices

• Control of device is via async websocket, so should be usable in async code