MiCasaVerde_Vera

This is a simple code example with a console to enter python code into. You will need to change the IP_ADDRESS to match the IP of your Vera. if you set the IP_ADDRESS variable to "" it will attempt a discovery of the Vera (provided you have upnp turned on). This process does take a bit to complete the Vera is not exactly in the road runner department.

IP_ADDRESS = '192.168.1.2'
DEVICE_NUMBER = None
SHOW_ALL_EVENTS = True

import micasaverde_vera


def test_callback(event):
    if SHOW_ALL_EVENTS:
        print event.event

    split_event = event.event.split('.')

    def check_event():
        if split_event[-1] == 'changed':
            print
            print '--------------------------------------------'
            print event.event
            attr_name = split_event[-2:][0]
            try:
                print event.name
            except AttributeError:
                print 'NO NAME'
            print attr_name, '=', getattr(event, attr_name)
            print'--------------------------------------------'
            print

    if split_event[0] == 'devices':
        if split_event[1] == str(DEVICE_NUMBER):
            check_event()

    elif split_event[0] == 'rooms':
        check_event()

vera = micasaverde_vera.connect(IP_ADDRESS)
event_handler = vera.bind('*', test_callback)
vera.start_polling(0.2)

while True:
    command = [
        raw_input('key in commands here. the last line must be RUN\n\n')
    ]
    while command[-1] != 'RUN' and not command[-1].endswith('RUN'):
        command += [raw_input('')]
    command = '\n'.join(command)[:-3]

    try:
        exec command
    except:
        import traceback
        traceback.print_exc()

in the console if you want to get a printout of all of the device names for example

for device in vera.devices:
    print device.name

or say you want a prinout of what devices are in what rooms.

 for room in vera.rooms:
     print room.name
     for device in room:
         print '   ', device.name

how about get a list of devices a plugin has installed

  for plugin in vera.installed_plugins:
      print plugin.name
      for device in plugin:
          print '   ', device.name

The best way to go about identifying any vera objects is by it's ID, these id's never get reissued and are unique to an object. You are able to access a device/room/plugin by it's id just as you would a list index. It does not matter if the numbers are not in sequence. You are also able to access using the device name like you would a dictionary.

There is a single convience method that allows for attrubite access to a room/device from the vera object. No unicode and the attribute representation of the room and device are all lowercase with any spaces replaces with an underscore. no numbers or special characters.

if i want to access room Living Room and the device Overhead Light

vera.living_room.overhead_light