AlarmDecoder

Interface for the AlarmDecoder (AD2) device family

This Python library aims to provide a consistent interface for the Alarm Decoder product line. (AD2USB, AD2SERIAL and AD2PI) This also includes devices that have been exposed via ser2sock, which supports encryption via SSL/TLS.

Installation

AlarmDecoder can be installed through pip: pip install alarmdecoder

or from source: python setup.py install

• Note: python-setuptools is required for installation.

Requirements

• An AlarmDecoder device
• Python 2.7
• pyftdi >= 0.9.0
• pyusb >= 1.0.0b1
• pyserial >= 2.7
• pyopenssl

Documentation

API documentation can be found here.

Examples

A basic example is included below. Please see the examples directory for more.

import time
from alarmdecoder import AlarmDecoder
from alarmdecoder.devices import USBDevice

def main():
    """
    Example application that prints messages from the panel to the terminal.
    """
    try:
        # Retrieve the first USB device
        device = AlarmDecoder(USBDevice.find())

        # Set up an event handler and open the device
        device.on_message += handle_message
        with device.open():
            while True:
                time.sleep(1)

    except Exception, ex:
        print 'Exception:', ex

def handle_message(sender, message):
    """
    Handles message events from the AlarmDecoder.
    """
    print sender, message.raw

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()