ShineMonitor API in Python

ShineMonitor is the cloud backend (api.shinemonitor.com) used by several inverter vendor apps — WatchPower, SolarPower, etc. By decompiling the WatchPower Android APK with Jadx, the authentication flow was reverse-engineered, giving direct access to the backend REST API for programmatic inverter queries.

pip install shinemonitor-api

Check the examples/ folder for usage. To run the examples or develop the library, use uv:

uv sync --all-groups

That installs all dependencies, including the optional examples group.

Sync and async

Two thin I/O shells over a shared sansio core (URL building, signing, parsing). Pick whichever fits the calling code — both expose the same methods.

# sync
from shinemonitor_api import ShineMonitorAPI

with ShineMonitorAPI() as api:
    api.login(username, password)
    devices = api.get_devices()
    for device in devices:
        print(api.get_last_data(device).main)

# async
import asyncio
from shinemonitor_api.aio import AsyncShineMonitorAPI

async def main():
    async with AsyncShineMonitorAPI() as api:
        await api.login(username, password)
        devices = await api.get_devices()
        snapshots = await asyncio.gather(
            *(api.get_last_data(d) for d in devices)
        )
        for snapshot in snapshots:
            print(snapshot.main)

asyncio.run(main())

Both clients accept an httpx.Client / httpx.AsyncClient for reuse in apps that already manage one (e.g. Home Assistant).

Targeting a different vendor app

The ShineMonitor backend is shared by many white-label apps (WatchPower, RenoClient / Renovigi, ...). Devices are scoped to the app that registered them, so pass the matching profile — WatchPower is the default.

from shinemonitor_api import ShineMonitorAPI, AppProfile

# a shipped preset
with ShineMonitorAPI(app=AppProfile.RENOCLIENT) as api:
    api.login(username, password)
    devices = api.get_devices()

# an app without a preset — supply its identifiers
custom = AppProfile(app_id="com.example.app", app_version="1.0.0")
api = ShineMonitorAPI(app=custom)

AppProfile.from_name("renoclient") resolves a shipped preset by name (handy when the app is chosen from config). get_devices() automatically falls back from the undocumented webQueryDeviceEs action to the documented queryDevices when the former reports no devices.

Migrating from watchpower-api

watchpower-api is the previous PyPI name. The package was renamed to shinemonitor-api because the upstream API serves more than just the WatchPower app. The WatchPowerAPI class is now ShineMonitorAPI.

# before
from watchpower_api import WatchPowerAPI

# after
from shinemonitor_api import ShineMonitorAPI