A python 3.8+ library for accessing actuator and sensor data on the the EZcontrol® XS1 Gateway using its HTTP API.
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The initial goal of this library was to be able to integrate the EZcontrol® XS1 Gateway with Home Assistant. You can find the related integration documentation here: XS1 Home Assistant component documentation
Note: xs1-api-client was designed to have reusable device objects, meaning device objects can be updated. When a user changes the order of devices within the XS1 gateway, their ids don't change but their numbers (orders) do. This causes the "device object" <-> device id association to get messed up. Since there is no way for us to know about this change, it's impossible for us to tell that the device number we use for an already created device object does not correspond to the correct device anymore without fetching all devices again, which requires the recreation of all device objects.
TL;DR: Do not change the order of the devices in the XS1 Gateway if you can avoid it, and if you do, restart the service that relies on xs1-api-client to force a re-fetch of all devices.
pip install xs1-api-client
For a basic example have a look at the [example.py] file. If you need more info have a look at the [documentation] which should help.
The basic way of creating an API object is by providing connection info directly when creating it:
from xs1_api_client import api as xs1api
from xs1_api_client import api_constants
# Create an api object with private configuration
api = xs1api.XS1(host='192.168.2.20', user="Username", password="Password")
This will automatically try to connect to the gateway with the given credentials and retrieve basic gateway information which you can output like this:
print("Gateway Hostname: " + api.get_gateway_name())
print("Gateway MAC: " + api.get_gateway_mac())
print("Gateway Hardware Version: " + api.get_gateway_hardware_version())
print("Gateway Bootloader Version: " + api.get_gateway_bootloader_version())
print("Gateway Firmware Version: " + api.get_gateway_firmware_version())
print("Gateway uptime: " + str(api.get_gateway_uptime()) + " seconds")
You can also specify a custom port and enable SSL:
api = xs1api.XS1(host='192.168.2.20', port=1234, ssl=True, user="Username", password="Password")
Now that you have a connection to your gateway we can retrieve its configuration and set or retrieve values of configured actuators and sensors or even modify their configuration.
All devices that you have configured in your XS1 are implemented using
the XS1Device
base class which can be found at /device/__init__.py
.
This class provides basic functionality for every device like getting
the id, name, type and other values.
To retrieve a list of all 64 actuators use the following call:
actuators = api.get_all_actuators()
This will return a list of XS1Actuator
objects which is another base
class for all actuators. You can use something like this to print all
your actuators:
for actuator in actuators:
print("Actuator " + str(actuator.id()) + ": " + actuator.name() + " (" + str(actuator.type()) + ")")
There is also an integrated __str__
method to print out most of the useful properties just like this:
for actuator in actuators:
print(actuator)
You can also filter the elements by enabled
and disabled
state using:
enabled_actuators = api.get_all_actuators(True)
Retrieve a single actuator simply by using:
actuator_1 = api.get_actuator(1)
To retrieve the current value of an actuator just call:
current_value = actuator.value()
To set a new value to this actuator use:
actuator.set_value(100)
This will send the required request to the XS1 and set the new_value
property to your value. Most of the time this value is set
instantaneously is in sync with the value
property. However if this
value is different from the standard value
the XS1 gateway is still
trying to update the value on the remote device. For some devices this
can take up to a couple of minutes (f.ex. FHT 80B heating).
Currently there is no callback when the value is finally updated so you have to update the device information manually if you want to get an update on its current state:
actuator.update()
After that the usual methods like actuator.value()
will respond with
the updated state.
If you have defined function presets for a device you can get a list of all functions using:
functions = actuator.get_functions()
and print them like this:
for function in functions:
print(function)
to execute one of the functions type:
function.execute()
This will (like set_value) update the device state immediately with the gateways response. Remember though that there can be a delay for sending this value to the actual remote device like mentioned above.
To retrieve a list of all 64 sensors use the following call:
sensors = api.get_all_sensors()
Just like with actuators you can filter the elements by enabled
and disabled
state using:
enabled_sensors = api.get_all_sensors(True)
XS1Sensor
objects which is the base
class for all sensors.for sensor in sensors:
print("Sensor " + str(sensor.id()) + ": " + sensor.name() + " (" + str(sensor.value()) + ")")
Just like mentioned above you can also use:
for sensor in sensors:
print(sensor)
or:
sensor_1 = api.get_sensor(1)
to retrieve a specific sensor.
Just like with actuators there is no automatic updates for sensors either. To get a state update from the XS1 gateway for your sensor object call:
sensor.update()
After that the complete state of this sensor is updated.
The XS1 allows up to 64 actuator and 64 sensor configurations. These 128 device configurations are accessible via the HTTP API at any time - even when there is nothing configured for a specific device id/number.
To check if a device has been configured (and enabled) in the XS1 web interface call:
device.enabled()
for both actuators and sensors alike.
Since version 2.0 it is possible to get and set device configurations on the XS1 using this library.
Please have a look at the example_config.py
file to get an idea of how to retrieve a device configuration.
Before you proceed
Every configuration change will write to the internal flash memory of the XS1. Please keep in mind that that the use flash memory can and will probably degrade when written too often.
There is a very detailed example in this project called example_config_copy_actuator.py
that will show you
how to copy a device configuration and also explains most of the important configuration parameters you will have
to use to set a custom configuration. Keep in mind though that the configuration parameters can vary between device
types and systems.
Github is for social coding: if you want to write code, I encourage contributions through pull requests from forks of this repository. Create Github tickets for bugs and new features and comment on the ones that you are interested in.
xs1-api-client by Markus Ressel Copyright (C) 2017 Markus Ressel This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.