I’m a newbie around here so I apologise if this post is in the wrong place. I posted in uncategorised but alas in spite of many views no responses were forthcoming 
I am trying to install and get working the script below but have been unable to get past the first line error. I am assuming the script is syntactically correct and that I am installing it incorrectly.
Can someone tell me if this script should run in a normal python environment or does it need home assistant appdaemon?
Any pointers will be much appreciated.
import homeassistant.remote as remote
import socket
api = remote.API('https://ADDRESS.duckdns.org', 'PASSWORD', 443) # ('HA Address', 'HA Password', HA Port)
print(remote.validate_api(api))
HOST = ""
PORT = 4999 # Listening Port
# Retrieve input from RTI
# RTI 2-Way driver comand srting syntax examples:
# ,media_player*select_source*entity_id*media_player.living_room_tv*source*Netflix^
# ,vacuum*turn_on*entity_id*vacuum.roomba**^
def msg_to_hass(strCommand):
domain = strCommand.split("*")[0] # HA Domain
service = strCommand.split("*")[1] # HA Service
field = strCommand.split("*")[2] # HA Field1
device = strCommand.split("*")[3] # HA Field1 Value
field2 = strCommand.split("*")[4] # HA Field2
device2 = strCommand.split("*")[5] # HA Field2 Value
data = {} # initialize dictionary
data[field] = device # insert field 1 and value into dictionary
data[field2] = device2 # insert field 2 and value into dictionary
new_data={k:data[k] for k in data if data[k]} # Remove blank entries from data dictionary and save as new_data
print(domain, service, new_data) # print domain, service, and data to send to HA
remote.call_service(api, domain, service, new_data) # send command to HA
state = remote.get_state(api, device) # request device state from HA
print(state) # Print state of HA Device
def create_listen_socket(host, port):
""" Setup the sockets our server will receive connection
requests on """
sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
sock.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_REUSEADDR, 1)
sock.bind((host, port))
sock.listen(100)
return sock
def recv_msg(sock):
""" Wait for data to arrive on the socket, then parse into
messages using b'\0' as message delimiter """
data = bytearray()
msg = ''
# Repeatedly read 4096 bytes off the socket, storing the bytes
# in data until we see a delimiter
while not msg:
recvd = sock.recv(4096)
if not recvd:
# Socket has been closed prematurely
raise ConnectionError()
data = data + recvd
#if b'\0' in recvd:
if b'^' in recvd: # ^ is the last character in the message. Strip the starting comma.
#msg = data.rstrip(b'\0')
msg = data
msg = msg.decode('utf-8')
msg = msg.split(",")[-1]
return msg.rstrip("^")
def prep_msg(msg):
""" Prepare a string to be sent as a message """
msg += '\0'
return msg.encode('utf-8')
def send_msg(sock, msg):
""" Send a string over a socket, preparing it first """
data = prep_msg(msg)
sock.sendall(data)
def handle_client(sock, addr):
""" Receive data from the client via sock and echo it back """
try:
msg = recv_msg(sock) # Blocks until received complete message
print('{}: {}'.format(addr, msg))
#send_msg(sock, msg) # Blocks until sent
msg_to_hass(msg)
except (ConnectionError, BrokenPipeError):
print('Socket error')
finally:
handle_client(client_sock, addr) # loop back to recv_msg
# print('Closed connection to {}'.format(addr))
# sock.close()
if __name__ == '__main__':
listen_sock = create_listen_socket(HOST, PORT)
addr = listen_sock.getsockname()
print('Listening on {}'.format(addr))
while True:
client_sock, addr = listen_sock.accept()
print('Connection from {}'.format(addr))
handle_client(client_sock, addr)