Nest

Nest Home Simulator Chrome Extension

If you don't have a Nest, but still want to try stuff out, Nest provides a cool chrome extension to make "fake" Nest devices under a developer account.

https://developers.nest.com/documentation/cloud/home-simulator/
Must have developer account.
Can create all the fake devices you want.
Can see status on https://home.nest.com like a normal Nest.

python-nest library

https://github.com/jkoelker/python-nest/

Great library with solid API coverage for thermostats, but currently missing Camera support. * pip install python-nest * Can control all devices on your account. * There may be a better library out there, but I haven't found it yet.

import nest

username = 'joe@user.com'
password = 'swordfish'

napi = nest.Nest(username, password)

for structure in napi.structures:
    print 'Structure %s' % structure.name
    print '    Away: %s' % structure.away
    print '    Devices:'

    for device in structure.devices:
        print '        Device: %s' % device.name
        print '            Temp: %0.1f' % device.temperature

Milight / LimitlessLED

LimitlessLED makes really great and cheap remote control LED light bulbs. Much cheaper than Hue. Pretty widely available now and include a developer portal on their website.

http://www.limitlessled.com/
Quite a few libraries out there to use them.
Repackaged under a few different names such as LimitlessLed, Milight, Easybulb, applight, dekolight and iLight.
Restore previous state on power up! (In your face Hue)
Requires bridge product to use over internet or on local network.

python-limitlessled library

https://github.com/happyleavesaoc/python-limitlessled This is probably the best library I've used for these bulbs that has both Python 2 & 3 support.

pip install limitlessled
Supports white, and RGBW bulbs.
Up to 4 white zones per bridge AND 4 color zones per bridge.

from limitlessled.bridge import Bridge
from limitlessled.group.rgbw import RGBW

bridge = Bridge('<your bridge ip address>')
bedroom = bridge.add_group(1, 'bedroom', RGBW)
bedroom.on = True
bedroom.brightness = 0.5 # 0.0 through 1.0
bedroom.temperature = 0.6 # 0.0 through 1.0

Flask

Python webserver microframework. http://flask.pocoo.org/

Built in development server
Jinja template engine
Tons of addons
pip install Flask

Super simple, super minimal.

from flask import Flask
app = Flask(__name__)

@app.route("/")
def hello():
    return "Hello World!"

if __name__ == "__main__":
    app.run()

To add routes, just add another route function and the @app.route(...) decorator before app.run().

@app.route("/meetup")
def meetup():
    return "Orlando Python User Group is the best!"

WeMo

Ouimeaux library has a lot of functionality to it.

http://ouimeaux.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

Comes with webserver and web app to connect and run WeMo's and python API
pip install ouimeaux

orlandopython / opug_iot_meetup