Using python scripts

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Dear fellow HA users!

Recently i bought an Denon X2400H. I managed to setup an easy script to control the AVR with all the commands i received from Denon.

I wanted to use some automations which simply calls my python scripts/places input in the script. However to control the AVR i need to import some modules (socket for example).
Unfortunatly home-assistant is blocking me from doing this…

Are there work arounds? Other ways to use full python scripts?

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Appdaemon allows you to use the full power of Python.
https://home-assistant.io/docs/ecosystem/appdaemon/

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Yeah i noticed but seemed it implied a learning curve. Made a workaround where i use shell commands to call functions in my script or parse arguments. Not the cleanest but works well atm.

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Yes, but definitely worth it if you want to use Python for your automations.

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You can use command line component to call python like a shell script

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@bbrendon Yeah thats what i ended up using. Still cant comprehend the reasoning behind not allowing the import function. When shell commands are avaliable the reason of security simply isnt availabe anymore.

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I am in the prosess of doing the same for my Rotel.

Could you please post a sample code for the Shell command, where you call a function with argument in your Socket Python script.

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This my shell command that calls a python script with an input.

shell_command:
  youtube: python3 /Users/ttt/.homeassistant/youtube.py --q="{{ search }}"

and I call it like this

intent_script:
  youtube:
    action:
      service: shell_command.youtube
      data_template:
        search: '{{ search }}'
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I think the preferred way to do this would be to make it a custom component and implement them as service calls. Custom components can specify REQUIREMENTS that will get installed during startup and can import whatever they need to use.

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Thanks for responding!

I am a total N00b, but quite good at copy and paste, so if my function name with argument is RotelRemote(‘PowerOn’). And the file name is Rotel.py. How will the code be?

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This is a simple python script that takes one input (an entity id) and turns it off. It might help.

import argparse
import requests
import simplejson as json


parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument("e")
args = parser.parse_args()


url = "http://192.168.2.186:8124/api/services/switch/turn_off"
data = {"entity_id": args.e}
headers = {'x-ha-access': 'password','Content-type': 'application/json'}
r = requests.post(url, data=json.dumps(data), headers=headers)

https://docs.python.org/3/library/argparse.html

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So got my test script working when I use a function argument without space
But with space it throws an error. And I think it is the command line syntax.
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How do I format the function argument with a space?
I want to use a space because I want to pick the argument in my script and make it an attribute in a HA-sensor.

My python script:

import socket
import sys

IPADDR = '192.168.1.251'
SERIALPORT = 4999
CONTROLPORT = 4998

def sendHex(code):
#    s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET,socket.SOCK_STREAM)
#    try:
#      s.connect((IPADDR, SERIALPORT))
#    except socket.error as e:
#      print(e)     

#    s.send(bytes.fromhex(code))
#    s.close()
     print(code)


def Rotel_RSP1570_com(action):
    switcher = {
        'power Off' : 'FE 03 A3 10 4A 00',
        'powerOn'   : 'FE 03 A3 10 4B 01',
        'mute'      : 'FE 03 A3 10 1E D4',
        'volumUp'   : 'FE 03 A3 10 0B C1',
        'volumDown' : 'FE 03 A3 10 0C C2'
    }
    if switcher.get(action, 'Error') == "Error":
      print("Warning: Rotel RSP-1570 remote control - Invalid code: ", action)
    else:
      print(switcher.get(action, 'Invalid command'))    
      sendHex('YES!')

eval(sys.argv[1])
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Can you use Power_Off or something and then replace the _ with a space in HA or in the python script?

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After a lot off copy-and-paste research, all it took was double quotes for the function and argument.:smiley:

python C:\Users\Tom\Desktop\Python\x.py "Rotel_RSP1570_com('power Off')"

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May I ask you what you do with that? Hehe I’m trying to autoplay the 1st video in youtube search depending on the media artist - title on my media player.

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I used it for this.

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Nice, exactly what I was looking for!

I do get that error tho :

Command executed: python3 /config/MP/pyton_scripts/youtube.py --q="{{ states.media_player.bose_soundtouch_petit.attributes.media_title  }}": 1
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/config/MP/pyton_scripts/youtube.py", line 1, in <module>
    from apiclient.discovery import build
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'apiclient'

How do I load the missing module(s) on Hass.io running on RaspberryPi3 ?!
I think python3 is the good way to call python ion Hass.io ?

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The process probably won’t work for you. I don’t use it mainly because for the media extractor to play youtube songs, it has to play youtube video. I use the VLC player on the pi, so I need to run HA from ssh console so that it can play the video. It plays it with text, kinda cool.

I don’t use Hass.io but I don’t think you can install programs. It appears you need to install apiclient. I would try this on a Pi with HA installed in a venv.

pip3 install apiclient

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Okay thanks! I’ll scratch my head a little maybe I’ll think of something brilliant! haha