Easy automation with MQTT and/or openHAB
HABApp is a asyncio/multithread application that connects to an openHAB instance and/or a MQTT broker. It is possible to create rules that listen to events from these instances and then react accordingly.
The goal of this application is to provide a simple way to create home automation rules in python. With full syntax highlighting and descriptive names it should almost never be required to look something up in the documentation
The documentation can be found at here
HABApp was created for my own use, but I wanted others to profit from it, too. Creating, maintaining and developing it takes a lot of time. If you think this is a great tool and want to support it you can donate, so I can buy some more coffee to keep development going. ๐
All donations are greatly appreciated!
import datetime
import random
import HABApp
from HABApp.mqtt.items import MqttItem
from HABApp.core.events import ValueChangeEvent, ValueChangeEventFilter, ValueUpdateEvent, ValueUpdateEventFilter
class ExampleMqttTestRule(HABApp.Rule):
def __init__(self):
super().__init__()
self.run.every(
start_time=datetime.timedelta(seconds=60),
interval=datetime.timedelta(seconds=30),
callback=self.publish_rand_value
)
# this will trigger every time a message is received under "test/test"
self.listen_event('test/test', self.topic_updated, ValueUpdateEventFilter())
# This will create an item which will store the payload of the topic so it can be accessed later.
self.item = MqttItem.get_create_item('test/value_stored')
# Since the payload is now stored we can trigger only if the value has changed
self.item.listen_event(self.item_topic_updated, ValueChangeEventFilter())
def publish_rand_value(self):
print('test mqtt_publish')
self.mqtt.publish('test/test', str(random.randint(0, 1000)))
def topic_updated(self, event: ValueUpdateEvent):
assert isinstance(event, ValueUpdateEvent), type(event)
print( f'mqtt topic "test/test" updated to {event.value}')
def item_topic_updated(self, event: ValueChangeEvent):
print(self.item.value) # will output the current item value
print( f'mqtt topic "test/value_stored" changed from {event.old_value} to {event.value}')
ExampleMqttTestRule()
import HABApp
from HABApp.core.events import ValueUpdateEvent, ValueChangeEvent, ValueChangeEventFilter, ValueUpdateEventFilter
from HABApp.openhab.events import ItemCommandEvent, ItemStateUpdatedEventFilter, ItemCommandEventFilter, \
ItemStateChangedEventFilter
class MyOpenhabRule(HABApp.Rule):
def __init__(self):
super().__init__()
# Trigger on item updates
self.listen_event('TestContact', self.item_state_update, ItemStateUpdatedEventFilter())
self.listen_event('TestDateTime', self.item_state_update, ValueUpdateEventFilter())
# Trigger on item changes
self.listen_event('TestDateTime', self.item_state_change, ItemStateChangedEventFilter())
self.listen_event('TestSwitch', self.item_state_change, ValueChangeEventFilter())
# Trigger on item commands
self.listen_event('TestSwitch', self.item_command, ItemCommandEventFilter())
def item_state_update(self, event: ValueUpdateEvent):
assert isinstance(event, ValueUpdateEvent)
print(f'{event}')
def item_state_change(self, event: ValueChangeEvent):
assert isinstance(event, ValueChangeEvent)
print(f'{event}')
# interaction is available through self.openHAB or self.oh
self.openhab.send_command('TestItemCommand', 'ON')
def item_command(self, event: ItemCommandEvent):
assert isinstance(event, ItemCommandEvent)
print(f'{event}')
# interaction is available through self.openhab or self.oh
self.oh.post_update('TestItemUpdate', 123)
MyOpenhabRule()
- For openHAB >= 4.1 it's possible to wait for a minimum openHAB uptime before connecting (defaults to 60s)
- Renamed config entry mqtt.connection.client_id to identifier (backwards compatible)
ItemTimeSeriesUpdatedEvent
gets ignored- Updated dependencies
- Updated docs
- Added HABApp.util.RateLimiter
- Added CompressedMidnightRotatingFileHandler
- Updated dependencies
- Small improvement for RGB and HSB types
- Small improvements for openHAB items
- Added toggle for SwitchItem
- Fix for very small float values (#425)
- Fix for writing to persistence (#424)
- Updated dependencies
- Made channel type on a
Thing
optional (#416) - Fixed an issue with mqtt publish and reconnect
- Log a warning for broken links between items and things
- Fix CI
- Switched version number scheme to CalVer (Calendar Versioning):
YEAR.MONTH.COUNTER
- Fail fast when a value instead of a callback is passed to the event listener / scheduler
- Completely removed types and type hints from traceback
- Completely reworked connection logic for openHAB and mqtt
- Added support for transformations
- Updated dependencies:
- Improved performance
- Support for docker secrets and environment variables in the config file
- Support sending scheduler datetimes to an item
- Search in the docs finally works again
- Updated dependencies
- Re-added
ItemStateEventFilter
- Improved parsing of
DateTime
values
- Fixed a bug where the rule context was not found
This is a breaking change!
- Renamed
GroupItemStateChangedEvent
toGroupStateChangedEvent
- Groups issue a
GroupStateUpdateEvent
when the state updates on OH3 (consistent with OH4 behavior) - Groups work now with
ValueUpdateEvent
andValueChangedEvent
as expected RenamedItemStateEvent
toItemStateUpdatedEvent
- Ignored ItemStateEvent on OH4
- Fewer warnings for long-running functions (execution of <FUNC_NAME> took too long)
Thing
status and status_detail are now an Enum- Added
status_detail
toThing
LocationItem
now provides the location as a tuple- Added support for
Point
events - Improved item sync from openHAB (no more false item state
None
after startup) - Improved startup behavior when openHAB and HABApp get started together (e.g. after reboot)
- Fixed an issue with short tracebacks for HABApp internal files
- Doc improvements
- Fixed an issue when using token based authentication with openHAB
- Fixed an issue with the asyncio event loop under Python < 3.10
ContactItem
hasopen()
/closed()
methods- Setting persistence values now works for some persistence services
- Don't connect when user/password is missing for openHAB
- Added log message if item for ping does not exist
- Added
execute_python
and reworkedexecute_subprocess
: HABApp will now by default pass only the captured output as a str into the callback. - Reworked
Thing
handling
- Added new item function
post_value_if
andoh_post_update_if
to conditionally update an item - Added support for new alive event with openHAB 3.4
- Reworked file writer for textual thing config
- Added support for ThingConfigStatusInfoEvent
- MultiModeValue returns True/False if item value was changed
- Updated dependencies
- New RGB & HSB datatype for simpler color handling
- Fixed Docker build
- Bugfixes
- OpenHAB Thing can now be enabled/disabled with
thing.set_enabled()
- ClientID for MQTT should now be unique for every HABApp installation
- Reworked MultiModeItem, now a default value is possible when no mode is active
- Added some type hints and updated documentation
- Fixed setup issues
- Fixed unnecessary long tracebacks
- Dockerfile is Python 3.10 and non slim
- OpenHAB >= 3.3 and Python >= 3.8 only!
- Major internal refactoring
- Startup issues are gone with a new and improved connection mechanism.
- New configuration library: More settings can be configured in the configuration file. Config values are also described in the docs. Also better error messages (hopefully)
- Improved event log performance (
BufferEventFile
no longer needed and should be removed) - Improved openhab performance (added some buffers)
- Improved mqtt performance
- Better tracebacks in case of error
- EventFilters can be logically combined ("and", "or") so rules trigger only once
- Label, Groups and Metadata is part of the OpenhabItem and can easily be accessed
- Added possibility to run arbitrary user code before the HABApp configuration is loaded
- Fixed setup issues
- Fixed some known bugs and introduced new ones ;-)
- Docker file changed to a multi stage build. Mount points changed to
/habapp/config
.
Migration to new version
self.listen_event
now requires an instance of EventFilter.
Old:
from HABApp.core.events import ValueUpdateEvent
...
self.my_sensor = Item.get_item('my_sensor')
self.my_sensor.listen_event(self.movement, ValueUpdateEvent)
New:
from HABApp.core.events import ValueUpdateEventFilter
...
self.my_sensor = Item.get_item('my_sensor')
self.my_sensor.listen_event(self.movement, ValueUpdateEventFilter()) # <-- Instance of EventFilter
HABApp:
ValueUpdateEvent -> ValueUpdateEventFilter()
ValueChangeEvent -> ValueChangeEventFilter()
Openhab:
ItemStateEvent -> ItemStateEventFilter()
ItemStateChangedEvent -> ItemStateChangedEventFilter()
ItemCommandEvent -> ItemCommandEventFilter()
MQTT:
MqttValueUpdateEvent -> MqttValueUpdateEventFilter()
MqttValueChangeEvent -> MqttValueChangeEventFilter()
Migration to new docker image
- change the mount point of the config from
/config
to/habapp/config
- The new image doesn't run as root. You can set
USER_ID
andGROUP_ID
to the user you want habapp to run with. It's necessary to modify the permissions of the mounted folder accordingly.
- Added command line switch to display debug information
- Display debug information on missing dependencies
- Added a small splash screen when HABApp is started
- May doc updates
- Reworked EventListenerGroup
- Added support for item metadata
- Added possibility to search for items by metadata
- Added EventListenerGroup to subscribe/cancel multiple listeners at once
- added self.get_items to easily search for items in a rule
- added full support for tags and groups on OpenhabItem
- Application should now properly shut down when there is a PermissionError
- Added DatetimeItem to docs
- Label in commandOption is optional
- Added message when file is removed
- Examples in the docs get checked with a newly created sphinx extension
- Reworked the openHAB tests
- add support for custom ca cert for MQTT
- Scheduler runs only when the rule file has been loaded properly
- Sync openHAB calls raise an error when called from an async context
- Replaced thread check for asyncio with a contextvar (internal)
- Scheduler runs only when the rule file has been loaded properly
- Replaced thread check for asyncio with a contextvar
- Sync openHAB calls raise an error when called from an async context
- Item and Thing loading from openHAB is more robust and disconnects now properly if openHAB is only partly ready
- Renamed command line argument "-s" to "-wos" or "--wait_os_uptime"
- Updated dependencies
- latitude is now set correctly for sunrise/sunset calculation (closes #217)
- Added missing " for tags in textual thing configuration
- Updated scheduler which fixes an overflow error(#216)
- States of openHAB groups are now unpacked correctly
Attention:
- No more support for python 3.6!
- Migration of rules is needed!
Changelog
- Switched to Apache2.0 License
- Fix DateTime string parsing for OH 3.1 (#214)
- State of Groupitem gets set correctly
- About ~50% performance increase for async calls in rules
- Significantly less CPU usage when no functions are running
- Completely reworked the file handling (loading and dependency resolution)
- Completely reworked the Scheduler!
- Has now subsecond accuracy (finally!)
- Has a new .countdown() job which can simplify many rules. It is made for functions that do something after a certain period of time (e.g. switch a light off after movement)
- Added hsb_to_rgb, rgb_to_hsb functions which can be used in rules
- Better error message if configured foldes overlap with HABApp folders
- Renamed HABAppError to HABAppException
- Some Doc improvements
Migration of rules:
- Search for
self.run_
and replace withself.run.
- Search for
self.run.in
and replace withself.run.at
- Search for
.get_next_call()
and replace with.get_next_run()
(But make sure it's a scheduled job) - Search for
HABAppError
and replace withHABAppException
- Added HABApp.util.functions with min/max
- Reworked small parts of the file watcher
- Doc improvements
- Dependency updates