aiolifxc 1.0.0

Description:

aiolifxc 1.0.0

AioLifxC




AioLifxC is a Python 3/asyncio library to control Lifx LED lightbulbs over your LAN.
Most of it was originally taken from the
Meghan Clarkk lifxlan package
and adapted to Python 3 (and asyncio obviously)
This is a fork from
François Wautier’s package.
It uses coroutines as opposed to callbacks. If you prefer callbacks,
please see his implementation instead. This was forked from version 0.5.0.

Installation
We are on PyPi so:
pip3 install aiolifxc
or:
python3 -m pip install aiolifxc


How to use
In essence, the test program is this:
def readin():
"""Reading from stdin and displaying menu"""

selection = sys.stdin.readline().strip("\n")
DoSomething()

loop = aio.get_event_loop()
devices = Devices(loop=loop)

loop.add_reader(sys.stdin, readin)

devices.start_discover()

try:
loop.run_forever()
except Exception as e:
print("Got exception %s" % e)
finally:
loop.remove_reader(sys.stdin)
loop.close()
Other things worth noting:


Whilst LifxDiscover uses UDP broadcast, the bulbs are
connected with Unicast UDP
The socket connecting to a bulb is not closed unless the bulb is deemed to have
gone the way of the Dodo. I’ve been using that for days with no problem
You can select to used IPv6 connection to the bulbs by passing an
IPv6 prefix to LifxDiscover. It’s only been tried with /64 prefix.
If you want to use a /48 prefix, add “:” (colon) at the end of the
prefix and pray. (This means 2 colons at the end!)
I only have Original 1000, so I could not test with other types
of bulbs
Unlike in lifxlan, set_waveform takes a dictionary with the right
keys instead of all those parameters





History

1.0.0 (UNRELEASED)
Changed

Add more log messages.
Fix display of selected devices in sample app.
Simplify API. Merge device classes into light classes.



0.5.6 (2017-09-22)

Changed

Update pip dependancies.
Simplify start_discovery function.
Update to Beta status.
Fix API docs on readthedocs.



Fixed

Update MANIFEST.in file.




0.5.5 (2017-07-11)

Changed

Update mypy from 0.511 to 0.520



Fixed

Ensure we act on selected device in sample client.
Fix mypy errors.
Fix message size calculation.
Add configurable grace period for unregister.




0.5.4 (2017-07-07)
Fixed

Fix failure to re-register a light that went off-line.



0.5.3 (2017-07-03)
Fixed

Fixed FD resource leak in discovery of existing lights.



0.5.2 (2017-07-02)
Changed

Significant changes. Improvements to the API. Type hints, doc strings, etc.



0.5.1 (2017-06-26)

Initial version after fork from https://github.com/frawau/aiolifx