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Open source control for Belkin WeMo devices
- Free software: BSD license
- Documentation: https://ouimeaux.rtfd.org.
- Supports WeMo Switch, Light Switch, Insight Switch and Motion
- Command-line tool to discover and control devices in your environment
- REST API to obtain information and perform actions on devices
- Simple responsive Web app provides device control on mobile
- Python API to interact with device at a low level
$ sudo pip install virtualenv
$ mkdir ouimeaux-env
$ virtualenv ouimeaux-env
$ source ouimeaux-env/bin/activate
$ cd ouimeaux-env
$ pip install git+https://github.com/iancmcc/ouimeaux.git
At this point you should be able to use wemo
and wemo server
so long as
you've activated your environment with source ouimeaux-env/bin/activate
.
Note: Ensure that the pip
and virtualenv
command you use belongs to a
Python 2 installation. On some systems, there are multiple versions of Python
installed. See below for an example from my Fedora system.
$ /bin/ls -1 "$(dirname $(which python))/virtualenv"{,-2} "$(dirname $(which python))/p"{ython,ip}[23]
/usr/bin/pip2
/usr/bin/pip3
/usr/bin/python2
/usr/bin/python3
/usr/bin/virtualenv
/usr/bin/virtualenv-2
$ pip --version
pip 9.0.1 from /usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages (python 3.5)
$ pip2 --version
pip 9.0.1 from /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages (python 2.7)
The client.py
script provided by BlackLight
allows the user to send simple commands to a device without the cumbersome
(and currently broken) Discoverer
object.
Requirements: install requests:
pip install requests
You can run client.py in two modes:
Will scan for available WeMo Switch devices on the network. Example:
python client.py --scan --subnet 192.168.1.0/24
Will run an action on a specified device. Example:
python client.py --device 192.168.1.19 --on
With no --on|--off|--toggle
action specified the script will return a JSON
with the device info:
{
"device": "192.168.1.19",
"name": "Lightbulbs",
"state": false
}
Run python client.py --help
for more info about the available options.
The wemo
command won't be able to communicate with your devices if you're connected to a VPN. It may be redirecting UDP traffic somewhere else. Disconnect from the VPN and the tool should work.
Open an issue and I'll try to help.