fritzconnection

fritzconnection

Python-Interface to communicate with the AVM Fritz!Box. Supports the TR-064 protocol, the (AHA-)HTTP-Interface and also allows call-monitoring.

Installation

For installation use pip:

    $ pip install fritzconnection
      or
    $ pip install fritzconnection[qr]

The latter will install the segno package to enable QR-code creation for wifi login.

Quickstart

Using fritzconnection is as easy as:

    from fritzconnection import FritzConnection

    fc = FritzConnection(address="192.168.178.1", user="user", password="pw")
    print(fc)  # print router model information

    # tr-064 interface: reconnect for a new ip
    fc.call_action("WANIPConn1", "ForceTermination")

    # http interface: gets history data from a device with given 'ain'
    fc.call_http("getbasicdevicestats", "12345 7891011")

FritzConnection provides two basic commands to communicate with the router APIs: call_action() for the TR-064-Interface and call_http() for the (AHA)-HTTP-Interface. Both APIs can be used on the same FritzConnection instance side by side.

call_action

call_action() expects a TR-064 service- and an action-name (and optional arguments). In general FritzConnection can execute every service and action provided by the (model-specific) API as documented by AVM. For i.e. this can be network settings, status informations, access to home automation devices and much more. The call_action() method returns the response from the router as a dictionary with the values already converted to the matching Python datatypes.

call_http

call_http() expects a command for the http-interface like "getbasicdevicestats" and, depending on the command, additional arguments like a device "ain" (identifier). A call to the method returns a dictionary with the content-type, the encoding and the response data of the http-response. The content-type of the response-data is typical "text/plain" or "text/xml" and may need further processing.

Username and password

To avoid hardcoding the arguments user and password in applications FritzConnection can read both from the environment variables FRITZ_USERNAME and FRITZ_PASSWORD.

Caching

On instantiation FritzConnection has to inspect the model-specific router-API. This causes a lot of network requests and can take some seconds. To avoid this FritzConnection provides a cache that can get activated by the use_cache parameter:

    fc = FritzConnection(..., use_cache=True)

This argument defaults to False. After creating the cache FritzConnection will start up much more faster.

Library

The package comes with library-modules to make some API calls easier and also demonstrates how to implement applications on top of FritzConnection.

Documentation

The full documentation and release notes are at https://fritzconnection.readthedocs.org