aiolifxc 0.5.2

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)

server = devices.start_discover()

try:
    loop.run_forever()
except Exception as e:
    print("Got exception %s" % e)
finally:
    server.cancel()
    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

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