Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: mitsubishi-echonet
Version: 0.5
Summary: A library for interfacing with Mitsubishi HVAC via the Echonet lite protocol.
Home-page: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/mitsubishi_echonet/
Author: Scott Phillips
License: LICENSE.txt
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# Mitsubishi Echonet

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A library for interfacing with Mitsubishi HVAC with the ECHONET-lite protocol
over WiFi adaptors such as the MAC-568IF-E.

It is specifically designed for use with Home Assistant, and its functionality
is limited to HVAC systems, but it could be potentially extended for other
ECHONET-lite applications and become a more general purpose library.

Similar implementations seem to be Node JS middleware running on Docker
containers to interface into the MQTT API however this is designed to be used
as a straight up library, no middleware, Node JS or Docker containers needed!

It is designed to work with Python 3.7 out of the box as
that was the environment I was working on.

## Instructions

Simplest way to install is to use pip:

```
pip install mitsubishi_echonet
```

## Basic usage
### Discover a list of HVAC using:
```python
aircons = mit.discover('Home air conditioner')
aircon = aircons[0]
```

### Turn HVAC on or off:
```python
aircon.on()
aircon.off()
aircon.getOperationalStatus()
{'status': 'off'}
```

### Set or Get a HVACs target temperature
```python
aircon.setOperationalTemperature(25)
aircon.getOperationalTemperature()
{'set_temperature': 25}
```

### Set or Get a HVACs mode of operation:
```python
supported modes =  'auto', 'cool', 'heat', 'dry', 'fan_only', 'other'

aircon.setMode('cool')
aircon.getMode()
{'mode': 'cool'}
```
### Set or Get a HVACs fan speed:

Note - your HVAC may not support all fan speeds.
```python
supported modes = 'auto', 'minimum', 'low', 'medium-Low', 'medium', 'medium-high', 'high', 'very high', 'max'

aircon.setFanSpeed('medium-high')
aircon.getFanSpeed()
{'fan_speed': 'medium-high'}
```

### Set or Get a HVACs swing mode:
Useful for split systems
Note - your HVAC may not support all swing modes.
```python
supported modes = 'not-used', 'vert', 'horiz', 'vert-horiz'

aircon.setSwingMode('vert')
aircon.getSwingMode()
{'swing_mode': 'vert'}
```

### Set or Get a HVACs automatic direction mode:
Useful for split systems
Note - your HVAC may not support all modes.
```python
supported modes = 'auto', 'non-auto', 'auto-horiz', 'auto-vert'

aircon.setAutoDirection('auto')
aircon.getAutoDirection()
{'auto_direction': 'auto'}
```

### Set or Get a HVACs vertical airflow direction:
Useful for split systems
Note - your HVAC may not support all modes.
```python
supported modes = 'upper', 'upper-central', 'central', 'lower-central', 'lower'

aircon.setAirflowVert('central')
aircon.getAirflowVert()
{'airflow_vert': 'central'}

### Get HVAC attributes at once:
```python
aircon.update()
{'status': 'On', 'set_temperature': 25, 'fan_speed': 'medium-high', 'room_temperature': 25, 'mode': 'cooling'}
```
## Using this library with Home Assistant

NOTE: For Home Assistant users there is now a dedicated repo for the related Home Assistant 'Mitsubishi' custom component that makes use of this Python library:
(https://github.com/scottyphillips/mitsubishi_hass)

'example.py' gives you an idea how to drive the HVAC directly from Python using this library.

## Thanks

Thanks to Karl Chaffey for contributing code updates for v0.4

Thanks to Jeffro Carr who inspired me to write my own native Python ECHONET
library for Home Assistant. I could not get his Node JS Docker container
to work properly on Hass.io :-)
Some ideas in his own repo got implemented in my own code.
(https://github.com/jethrocarr/echonetlite-hvac-mqtt-service.git)

Also big thanks to Futomi Hatano for open sourcing a high quality and
extremely well documented ECHONET Lite library in Node JS that formed
the basis of my reverse engineering efforts.
(https://github.com/futomi/node-echonet-lite)

## License

This application is licensed under an MIT license, refer to LICENSE for details.

***
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