How build this PROXY component ?

[ondrej1024]

How build this PROXY component ?

[ondrej1024]

All you need is Python3 installed on the machine you want to run carelink_client_proxy.py on. The machine can be in your local network (I use a RPi) or anywhere in the Cloud.

Make sure carelink_client.py and carelink_client_proxy.py are in the same directory and launch the proxy from command line with the -h option, which gives you a detailed description of the parameters:

python3 carelink_client_proxy.py -h

You get this output:

usage: carelink_client_proxy.py [-h] --username USERNAME --password PASSWORD
                                --country COUNTRY [--wait WAIT] [--verbose]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --username USERNAME, -u USERNAME
                        CareLink username
  --password PASSWORD, -p PASSWORD
                        CareLink password
  --country COUNTRY, -c COUNTRY
                        CareLink two letter country code
  --wait WAIT, -w WAIT  Wait seconds between repeated calls (default 300)
  --verbose, -v         Verbose mode

So basically you have to provide your Carelink username, password and your two letter country code as command line parameters.

I will also provide a systemd init script which can be installed on Debian based systems to run carelink_client_proxy as systemd service. And I guess I need to update the README with some installation instructions 🤔

[ondrej1024]

Actually I wouldn't recommend running carelink_client_proxy on a public Cloud service because it provides your personal Carelink data in plain text and without any authorization via its API. So it needs to run only in your local network.

[sebastiangrugel]

Thanks for suggestion. For now i wanted test this and RUN those 2 files on my laptop with Windows 10 (on WSL2 Windows Sybsystem for Linux that same issue) where i have installed Python. Im trying install module "syslog" - looks like i have some issue...

and when i trying install module:

[ondrej1024]

I'm afraid I cannot help you with Windows issues. But maybe Google can 😉
Alternatively you can just remove all syslog calls from the source code. You will loose logging functionality but the program should still work fine.

[sebastiangrugel]

On which linux distribution this is working for you ? What linux is using Raspberry PI ?

[ondrej1024]

I tried on a PC with Ubuntu and RaspberryPi with Raspbian (now Raspberry Pi OS). But it should just run on any distro with Python support.

[ondrej1024]

Anyway, here is a modified version of carelink_client_proxy.py with syslog commented out.

[ondrej1024]

@sebastiangrugel : Did you have any luck building and running the proxy on Windows?