ouimeaux

Open source control for Belkin WeMo devices

Free software: BSD license
Documentation: http://ouimeaux.rtfd.org.

Features

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

About this fork

The original repository can be found here: https://github.com/iancmcc/ouimeaux

It doesn't appear to be maintained and it doesn't work with modern Python packages.

It has been forked here so that I can include my modifications to requirements.txt as well as document how to use it.

Installation

$ 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)

HTTP client version

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:

Scan mode

Will scan for available WeMo Switch devices on the network. Example:

python client.py --scan --subnet 192.168.1.0/24

Action mode

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.

Troubleshooting

Using a VPN

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.

KnicKnic / ouimeaux