Python library for interfacing with Sony's Songpal devices
Project description
Python 3 implementation of SongPal protocol as used by Sony’s soundbar and potentially other devices.
Supported devices
The library has been tested for now with following devices:
Sony HT-XT3
SRS-X88
Getting started
Installation
The easiest way for installing this project is by using pypi inside a virtualenv.
$ pip install python-songpal
Locating the endpoint
To communicate with the device you need to locate its endpoint URL. The easiest way to do is to execute the discover command:
$ songpal discover
Discovering for 3 seconds
Found HT-XT3 - BAR-2015
* API version: 1.0
* Endpoint: http://192.168.1.1:10000/sony
* Services:
- Service: guide
- Service: system
- Service: audio
- Service: avContent
This will run a UPnP discovery to find out responsive devices implementing the ScalarWebAPI.
The endpoint can be defined with --endpoint option, or alternatively SONGPAL_ENDPOINT environment variable can be set.
General Usage
The accompanied songpal tool can be used to control your device. All available commands can be listed with --help and more help on each command can be obtained by passing it to the sub-command, e.g., songpal power --help. Most interesting commands are most likely power, output, volume, and sound.
Generally speaking invoking a command without any parameters will display some relevant information like settings or active output.
For debugging -d (--debug) can be passed – also multiple times for increased verbosity – for protocol-level information.
Some of the commands can be used to adjust settings related to that functionality, usually by passing the target and its wanted value as parameters to the command.
$ songpal bluetooth mode off
On commands which are not mainly used for settings, such as power, require explicit set sub-command for changing the settings.
Status
$ songpal status
will display some basic information about the device, such as whether it is powered on and what are its volume settings.
Power Control
power command can be used to both turning the device on and off, and change its power settings.
$ songpal power
$ songpal power settings
$ songpal power
$ songpal power set quickStartMode on
Volume Control
$ songpal volume [<value>|mute|unmute]
$ songpal volume 20
$ songpal volume +5
$ songpal volume -10
Sound Settings
Your device may support various sound-related settings, such as night mode or adjusting the subwoofer volume.
$ songpal sound
$ songpal sound nightMode off
$ songpal sound subwooferLevel 4
Output Control
$ songpal output
Outputs:
* TV (uri: extInput:tv)
* HDMI1 (uri: extInput:hdmi?port=1)
* HDMI2 (uri: extInput:hdmi?port=2) (active)
* HDMI3 (uri: extInput:hdmi?port=3)
* Bluetooth Audio (uri: extInput:btAudio)
* Analog (uri: extInput:line)
$ songpal output HDMI1
Device Settings
To list available settings, use settings command.
$ songpal settings
Do note that some settings (e.g. bluetooth settings) are not listed in the global settings tree, but have to be separatedly accessed using the bluetooth command.
Executing custom commands
For experimenting it can be useful to execute arbitrary commands against the endpoint. You can access the available methods by calling songpal list_all.
command can be used for that as follows:
$ songpal command system getSystemInformation
Notification support
The protocol supports subscribing to notifications on subsystem basis. Executing songpal notifications without any parameters will list available notifications.
Every notification can be listened to separately, or alternatively all notifications from a single subsystem can be subscribed to.
$ songpal notifications --listen-all avContent
Contributing
Reporting bugs or supported devices
When reporting bugs or informing about supported device not listed above, please consider attaching the output of songpal dump_devinfo with your report.
API information
Audio Control API describes the API this project (currently partially) implements.
The Camera Remote API is also similar to this, and may also be useful for developers.
Home assistant support
A preliminary Home Assistant can be found under custom_components/media_player/songpal.py.
To install it copy (or link) the file into your custom components directory (~/.homeassistant/custom_components/media_player/), and add the following configuration to your media player configuration file.
media_player:
- platform: songpal
name: my soundbar
endpoint: http://192.168.1.1:10000/sony
Enabling debug for songpal in ~/.homeassistant/configuration.yaml can provide useful information when trying to debug the platform:
logger:
logs:
songpal: debug
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