pyalarmdotcomajax

Asynchronous Python Library for Accessing Alarm.com Services

This is an unofficial project that is not affiliated with Alarm.com.

Forked from Daren Lord's pyalarmdotcom.

Installation / Usage

To install use pip:

pip install pyalarmdotcomajax

Or clone the repo:

git clone https://github.com/uvjustin/pyalarmdotcomajax.git
python setup.py install

Usage

See examples/basic_sensor_data.py for a basic usage example.

Device Support (Core Functions)

Pyalarmdotcomajax supports core features (monitoring and using actions) of the device types listed below.

As of v0.2, multiples of all devices are supported.
All devices include the attributes: name, id_, state, battery_low, battery_critical, malfunctioning, parent_ids, and a few others.

Device Type	Notable Attributes	Actions	Notes
Garage Door	(none)	open, close
Gate	`supports_remote_close`	open, close
Image Sensor	`images`	peek_in
Light	`brightness`	turn_on (with brightness), turn_off	No support for RGB/W, effects, temperature, etc.
Locks		lock, unlock
Partition	`uncleared_issues`	arm away, arm stay, arm night, disarm
Sensor	`device_subtype`	(none)
System	`unit_id`	(none)
Thermostat	`temp_average`, `temp_at_tstat`, `step_value`, `supports_fan_mode`, `supports_fan_indefinite`, `supports_fan_circulate_when_off`, `supported_fan_durations`, `fan_mode`, `supports_heat`, `supports_heat_aux`, `supports_cool`, `supports_auto`, `min_heat_setpoint`, `min_cool_setpoint`, `max_heat_setpoint`, `max_cool_setpoint`, `heat_setpoint`, `cool_setpoint`, `supports_humidity`, `humidity`, `supports_schedules`, `supports_schedules_smart`, `schedule_mode`	set_attribute
Water Sensor		(none)

Known Sensor deviceTypes

This list identifies deviceTypes used in the alarm.com API and is incomplete. Please help by submitting missing values.

deviceType	Description
1	Contact Sensor
2	Motion Sensor
5	Smoke Detector
6	CO Detector
8	Freeze Sensor
9	Panic Button
10	Fixed Panic Button
14	Siren
19	Glass Break Detector
52	Vibration Contact Sensor
68	Panel Image Sensor
69	Mobile Phone (for Bluetooth Disarming)
83	Panel Glass Break Sensor
89	Panel Motion Sensor

Device Support (Configuration)

Pyalarmdotcomajax supports changing configuration options for the devices listed below.

Skybell HD

Doorbell Camera

Configuration Option	Slug	Supported Values	Notes
Indoor Chime	`indoor-chime`	`on`, `off`
Outdoor Chime	`outdoor-chime`	`off`, `low`, `medium`, `high`
LED Brightness	`led-brightness`	`0` - `100`
LED Color	`led-color`	`#000000` - `#FFFFFF`	Must include `#` at start.
Motion Sensor Sensitivity	`motion-sensitivity`	`low`, `medium`, `high`, `very_high`

Command Line Interface

The CLI is available by running adc from anywhere in your terminal. Use adc --help, adc get --help, and adc set --help for more information.

usage: adc [-h] [-d] [-ver] [-v] -u USERNAME -p PASSWORD [-n DEVICE_NAME] [-c COOKIE | -o ONE_TIME_PASSWORD] {get,set} ...

basic command line debug interface for alarm.com via pyalarmdotcomajax. shows device states in various formats.

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -d, --debug           show pyalarmdotcomajax's debug output.
  -ver, --version       show program's version number and exit
  -v, --verbose         show verbose output. -vv returns base64 image data for image sensor images.
  -u USERNAME, --username USERNAME
                        alarm.com username
  -p PASSWORD, --password PASSWORD
                        alarm.com password
  -n DEVICE_NAME, --device-name DEVICE_NAME
                        registers a device with this name on alarm.com and requests the two-factor authentication cookie for the device.
  -c COOKIE, --cookie COOKIE
                        two-factor authentication cookie. cannot be used with --one-time-password!
  -o ONE_TIME_PASSWORD, --one-time-password ONE_TIME_PASSWORD
                        provide otp code for accounts that have two-factor authentication enabled. if not provided here, adc will prompt user for otp. cannot be used with --cookie!

actions:
  {get,set}
    get                 get data from alarm.com. use 'adc get --help' for parameters.
    set                 set device configuration option. use 'adc set --help' for parameters

get options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -x, --include-unsupported
                        return basic data for all known unsupported devices. always outputs in verbose format.

set options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -i DEVICE_ID, --device-id DEVICE_ID
                        Numeric Alarm.com device identifier.
  -s SETTING_SLUG, --setting-slug SETTING_SLUG
                        Identifier for setting. Appears in parenthesis after setting name in adc set human readable output.
  -k NEW_VALUE, --new-value NEW_VALUE
                        New value for setting.

Examples

Get human-readable status (and device IDs) for all devices: adc -u "your_username" -p "your_password" get
Get raw JSON output from Alarm.com for all devices: adc -v -u "your_username" -p "your_password" get
Turn off Skybell HD indoor chime (assume Skybell device ID is 283431032-1520): adc -u "your_username" -p "your_password" set -i "283431032-1520" -s "indoor-chime" -k "off"

Development

VS Code Support Structures

This repository includes a full development environment for VS Code:

VS Code dev container. Automatically installs extensions and Python dependencies and registers Git pre-commit scripts.
Configuration files for type checking (mypy), linting (ruff and black), etc.
Pre-commit checks run all of the above when committing to Git and on demand via VS Code tasks.

References

Some API definitions are available in the node-alarm-dot-com repository.

Open Items

Features

Support additional components (lights, irrigation, etc.).
Support more sensor types (see list above in this README).
Add debug_info property to ADCController that returns aggregate of raw JSON from all endpoints. This will allow users to export the entity model of unsupported devices to help maintainers implement support in this library.
Similar to above, proactively populate unsupported_device_types property for ADCBaseElement to show users device id, device name, and device type for available but unsupported devices.
More granular exception handling when logging in. Should report discrete error types for authentication failures due to wrong credentials, connection issues, or other.