Alarm Decoder

Interface for the Alarm Decoder (AD2) device family

This Python library aims to provide a consistent interface for the entire Alarm Decoder product line, including the AD2USB, AD2SERIAL and AD2PI devices. 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 Alarm Decoder 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()