KNXDclient

A pure Python async client for KNXD's (EIBD's) native Layer 4 KNX protocol.

EIBD is a *NIX daemon for routing EIB/KNX telegrams through various interfaces and programmatically accessing the EIB/KNX bus. It's part of the no-longer maintained BCUSDK. However, there's a fork called KNXD, which is still actively maintained.

This package reimplements small parts of the EIBD client (see BCUSDK documentation, section 7.7) in pure Python 3, based on asynchronous coroutines (asyncio). Currently, it allows to open a Group Socket for sending and receiving KNX telegrams to/for any group address via KNXD. Additionally, this package includes helper methods encode_value() and decode_value() to convert the send/received data from/to native Python types according to a known KNX Datapoint Type (DPT).

Usage example

import asyncio
from knxdclient import encoding, client


def handler(packet: client.ReceivedGroupAPDU) -> None:
    print("Received group telegram: {}".format(packet))

async def main() -> None:
    connection = client.KNXDConnection()
    connection.set_group_apdu_handler(handler)
    await connection.connect()
    # Connection was successful. Start receive loop:
    run_task = asyncio.create_task(connection.run())
    # Now that the receive loop is running, we can open the KNXd Group Socket:
    await connection.open_group_socket()

    # Startup completed. Now our `handler()` will receive incoming telegrams and we can send some:
    await connection.group_write(client.GroupAddress(1,3,2),
                                 client.KNXDAPDUType.WRITE,
                                 encoding.encode_value(True, encoding.KNXDPT.BOOLEAN))
    
    await asyncio.sleep(5)
    # Let's stop the connection and wait for graceful termination of the receive loop:
    await connection.stop()
    await run_task


asyncio.run(main())

License

This package is published under the terms of the Apache License 2.0.