Arlo Q Plus support #23

imopen · 2017-10-25T08:41:51Z

Hi Jeffrey,
I'm looking for an api for my Arlo Q Plus, I've tried a little your library but, if I don't missing something, I'm able to list my camera but not to arm it (Arlo Q Plus works without a base).
Am I doing something wrong or Arlo Q Plus will be supported in future?
Thanks in advance and keep up the good work,
imopen

jeffreydwalter · 2017-10-25T14:48:05Z

Hi @imopen,

I'm open to support Arlo Q Plus. I don't own one, so I will need your help...

If you want to help, I need the log of the http request traffic created when you arm/disarm your camera.

To do this:

Use Chrome.
Right-click anywhere on the page and choose "Inspect" from the context menu. This will open the developer console.
Click on the Network tab.
Check the "Preserve log" checkbox.
Click the "Clear" icon (it looks like a circle with a slash through it).
Arm your camera from the browser.
Copy the http requests which show up in the developer console and paste them to me here. Please include the "Request Payload" from the "Headers" tab for each http request.
It will look something like this:

{"from":"336-XXXXXXX_web","to":"XXXXXXXXXXXXX","action":"set","resource":"modes","transId":"web!baf3e5e8.a1353!XXXXXXXXXXXXXX","publishResponse":true,"properties":{"active":"mode1"}}

Also, if Arlo is treating your Arlo Q Plus camera as a basestation, you might be able to call:

arlo.Arm(camera)

instead of:

arlo.Arm(basestation)

imopen · 2017-10-25T15:53:59Z

Hi Jeffrey,
thanks for the prompt reply.

I've collected the request headers and request payload, I've censured it for privacy reasons, I hope it is still clear, let me know if I should be more explicit

"CAMERA_SN" is the replacement for camera serial number, a string of the form: 0N1234SY5C67D for example

POST /hmsweb/users/devices/notify/CAMERA_SN HTTP/1.1
Host: arlo.netgear.com
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 189
Authorization: xxxxxxxxxxx
Origin: https://arlo.netgear.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.96 Safari/537.36
Content-Type: application/json;charset=UTF-8
Accept: application/json, text/plain, /
xcloudId: xxxxxxxxxxx
Referer: https://arlo.netgear.com/
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
Accept-Language: it,en-US;q=0.8,en;q=0.6
Cookie: xxxxxxxxxxx

{"from":"xxxxxxxxxxx_web","to":"CAMERA_SN","action":"set","resource":"modes","transId":"web!xxxxxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxxx!xxxxxxxxxxx","publishResponse":true,"properties":{"active":"mode1"}}

I've tried to arm the camera with arlo.Arm(camera) but I got an exception.

Thanks again,
imopen

imopen · 2017-10-25T17:07:07Z

My code:

arlo = Arlo(USERNAME, PASSWORD)
basestation = [device for device in arlo.GetDevices() if device['deviceType'] == 'arloqs']
arlo.Arm(basestation[0])

Here the exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./arlo-imopen.py", line 32, in
arlo.Arm(basestation[0])
File "/root/arlo/Arlo.py", line 383, in Arm
return self.NotifyAndGetResponse(basestation, {"action":"set","resource":"modes","publishResponse":True,"properties":{"active":"mode1"}})
File "/root/arlo/Arlo.py", line 327, in NotifyAndGetResponse
self.Subscribe(basestation)
File "/root/arlo/Arlo.py", line 257, in Subscribe
event_stream = sseclient.SSEClient('https://arlo.netgear.com/hmsweb/client/subscribe?token='+self.headers['Authorization'], cookies=self.cookies)
TypeError: init() got an unexpected keyword argument 'cookies'

Thank you very much,
imopen

jeffreydwalter · 2017-10-25T20:22:33Z

okay, just pushed some changes that should fix the exception you had. Please let me know how it goes.

Try this code:

arlo = Arlo(USERNAME, PASSWORD)
basestation = arlo.GetDevices('arloqs')
arlo.Arm(basestation[0])

imopen · 2017-10-25T20:41:57Z

Hi @jeffreydwalter
here we go:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./examples/arlo-imopen.py", line 9, in
arlo.Arm(basestation[0])
File "/root/arlo/Arlo.py", line 385, in Arm
return self.NotifyAndGetResponse(basestation, {"action":"set","resource":"modes","publishResponse":True,"properties":{"active":"mode1"}})
File "/root/arlo/Arlo.py", line 323, in NotifyAndGetResponse
self.Subscribe(basestation)
File "/root/arlo/Arlo.py", line 253, in Subscribe
event_stream = sseclient.SSEClient('https://arlo.netgear.com/hmsweb/client/subscribe?token='+self.request.session.headers.get('Authorization'), session=self.request.session)
TypeError: init() got an unexpected keyword argument 'session'

thanks for the support,
imopen

jeffreydwalter · 2017-10-25T20:57:11Z

Seems like you might have an older version of the sections library. How did you install it? Can you please verify what version you have installed?

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On Oct 25, 2017 2:41 PM, "imopen" ***@***.***> wrote: Hi @jeffreydwalter <https://github.com/jeffreydwalter> here we go: Traceback (most recent call last): File "./examples/arlo-imopen.py", line 9, in arlo.Arm(basestation[0]) File "/root/arlo/Arlo.py", line 385, in Arm return self.NotifyAndGetResponse(basestation, {"action":"set","resource":" modes","publishResponse":True,"properties":{"active":"mode1"}}) File "/root/arlo/Arlo.py", line 323, in NotifyAndGetResponse self.Subscribe(basestation) File "/root/arlo/Arlo.py", line 253, in Subscribe event_stream = sseclient.SSEClient('https://arlo.netgear.com/hmsweb/ client/subscribe?token='+self.request.session.headers.get('Authorization'), session=self.request.session) TypeError: *init*() got an unexpected keyword argument 'session' thanks for the support, imopen — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#23 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAinB8g-O1R88WPxeu3Ld4Iprn9O-Wb5ks5sv50VgaJpZM4QFomn> .

jeffreydwalter · 2017-10-25T20:59:31Z

*sseclient library... Stupid autocorrect got me. 😀

imopen · 2017-10-25T21:05:33Z

I check immediately, I'm running python on a raspberry, I'll upgrade and return to you ;-)

imopen · 2017-10-25T21:27:02Z

Python 2.7.9

certifi (2017.7.27.1)
chardet (3.0.4)
colorama (0.3.2)
dnspython (1.12.0)
html5lib (0.999)
idna (2.6)
monotonic (1.3)
pip (9.0.1)
pyarlo (0.0.8)
pycrypto (2.6.1)
requests (2.18.4)
setuptools (33.1.1)
six (1.11.0)
sseclient (0.0.18)
sseclient-py (1.7)
urllib3 (1.22)

should I upgrade?

jeffreydwalter · 2017-10-25T21:54:39Z

You might uninstall sseclient-py

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imopen · 2017-10-25T22:04:07Z

it works like a charm, I'll donate you a beer to thank you :)

jeffreydwalter · 2017-10-25T22:05:32Z

Awesome!!! Thanks for your help as well. Beer is always appreciated! Cheers! Jeff On Oct 25, 2017 4:04 PM, "imopen" <notifications@github.com> wrote: it works like a charm, I'll donate you a beer to thank you :) — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#23 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAinB15EACbIFt78ml2rqKtRc0nIyfJ8ks5sv7BXgaJpZM4QFomn> .

imopen · 2017-10-26T15:05:23Z

Hi @jeffreydwalter
please apologize my dummy question: what's the fastest way to get current status (armed. disarmed)?
I'm at first approach with Python and I think I'm complicating too much my code.
Thanks,
imopen

jeffreydwalter · 2017-10-26T18:41:35Z

Hey @imopen, thanks again for the beer! I enjoyed it last night.

You can get the current mode by getting all of the modes, like this:

arlo = Arlo(USERNAME, PASSWORD)

basestations = arlo.GetDevices('basestation')
current_mode = arlo.GetModes(basestations[0]).get("properties").get("active")

GetModes() returns an object that contains all of the modes and their associated rules. It also includes which one is selected, like this:

    "action": "is", 
    "from": "XXXXXXXXXXXXX", 
    "properties": {
        "active": "mode1", 
        "modes": [
            {
                "id": "mode0", 
                "name": "", 
                "rules": [], 
                "type": "disarmed"
            }, 
            {
                "id": "mode1", 
                "name": "", 
                "rules": [
                    "rule5", 
                    "rule2", 
                    "rule3"
                ], 
                "type": "armed"
            }, 
            {
                "id": "mode2", 
                "name": "*****_DEFAULT_MODE_ARMED_*****", 
                "rules": [
                    "rule0", 
                    "rule1"
                ]
            }, 
            {
                "id": "mode3", 
                "name": "Test Mode", 
                "rules": [
                    "rule6"
                ]
            }
        ]
    }, 
    "resource": "modes", 
    "to": "XXX-XXXXXXXX", 
    "transId": "web!1d94d764.ea8c58!XXXXXXXXXX"
}

imopen · 2017-10-26T18:56:25Z

thank you @jeffreydwalter
I'm on my way, I almost finished a first prototype of autoarm/autodisarm Arlo... instead of buggy geofence, I'll use the lan connection (pinging devices and dhcp sniffing), it seems very very more reliable... and your lib is essential to dialogate with Arlo.
When it'll be finished maybe I'll publish it ;-)

jeffreydwalter · 2017-10-26T19:55:07Z

That sounds like a really cool project! I would definitely be interested in checking it out!

I've been wanting to apply some machine learning to replace Netgear's "Arlo Smart". I was thinking it would be cool to turn off the notifications Arlo generates, and instead have the AI only send alerts when a real human (or whatever) is detected. Maybe even apply facial and voice recognition to make it recognize certain people so it wouldn't alert and also to allow those individuals to control home automation tasks (or trigger other things).

If we wanted to go really crazy, it might be a cool project to build a platform and make all of these features "plugins" so you could pick and choose what features you want.

imopen · 2017-10-27T10:59:31Z

Hi @jeffreydwalter
I got an error from library, basically I did a multithread program, one thread pings devices and other sniffs dhcp request to collect devices' status.
Both of them can arm o disarm Arlo but when a thread tries it obtains:

File "/root/arlo_autoarm//arlo_autoarm.py", line 60, in notification
status=arlo_arm_disarm("arm")
File "/root/arlo_autoarm//arlo_autoarm.py", line 164, in arlo_arm_disarm
arlo = Arlo(USERNAME, PASSWORD)
File "/root/arlo_autoarm/Arlo.py", line 126, in init
signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, self.interrupt_handler)
ValueError: signal only works in main thread

Can you help me somehow?
Thanks again,
imopen

imopen · 2017-10-27T11:07:41Z

For the moment I just commented line 126 and it seems to work
Probably can I have some concurrent problems?

jeffreydwalter · 2017-10-27T16:38:46Z

I can take a look. I added that signal handling code because the Arlo library is threaded itself and it would get stuck in a loop and ctrl-c wouldn't kill it. It shouldn't cause any problems to comment out that line in your case.

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imopen · 2017-10-30T14:31:28Z

Hi Jeffrey,
one more question, when I arm Arlo I begin to receive this GET every 4 seconds:

2017/10/30 13:52:23 | DEBUG | https://arlo.netgear.com:443 "GET /hmsweb/client/subscribe?token=2_[...]H HTTP/1.1" 200 None

Is there a way to arm the camera without subscribe to some event?

Or better, what is the cleanest mode to use your library? Is it ok to use the arlo object globally or is it better to instance an object in every call and then forcing logout on it?

I did a method like this, is it wrong?

def arlo_arm_disarm (mode):
    arlo = Arlo(USERNAME, PASSWORD)
    basestation = arlo.GetDevices(ARLO_BASENAME)
    if mode=="arm":
        arlo.Arm(basestation[0])
    else:
        arlo.Disarm(basestation[0])
    current_mode = arlo.GetModes(basestation[0]).get("properties").get("active")
    return current_mode

Thanks in advance,
imopen

jeffreydwalter · 2017-11-03T18:14:04Z

Hey @imopen,

There is no way to arm/disarm without that subscribe GET. Netgear chose to use a streaming protocol called "Server-side Events".

I would just instantiate the Arlo object once and use it globally.

arlo = Arlo(USERNAME, PASSWORD)
basestation = arlo.GetDevices(ARLO_BASENAME)

def arlo_arm_disarm (mode):
    if mode=="arm":
        arlo.Arm(basestation[0])
    else:
        arlo.Disarm(basestation[0])
    return arlo.GetModes(basestation[0]).get("properties").get("active")

jeffreydwalter · 2017-11-10T21:17:39Z

@imopen Did that work for you?

imopen · 2017-11-14T12:28:59Z

Hello @jeffreydwalter for my needs it's ok to arm/disarm and then logout.
These operations are made once/twice a day and I don't need to keep a connection estabilished.
Your lib works well and my project is almost mature, I automatically arm and disarm my Arlo as soon as I leave or enter at my home. Without using the pretty unstable geofencing.

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