homie.node — Homie Node

This module provides an interface to the Homie node definition.

class HomieNode()

The HomieNode object defines the Node as in the Homie convention and should be sub-classed to make nodes. A node must be attached to a Homie device object and can has multiple HomieNodeProperty’s. A node object can have multiple property objects.

Usage Model:

from machine import Pin

from homie.node import HomieNode
from homie.constants import FALSE; TRUE, BOOLEAN
from homie.property import HomieProperty

# reversed values for the esp8266 boards onboard led
ONOFF = {FALSE: 1, TRUE: 0, 1: FALSE, 0: TRUE}

class LEDTestNode(HomieNode):
    def __init__(self, id="led", name="LED test node", type="LED")
        super().__init__(id, name, type)

        # create the esp8266 on-board led object
        self.led = Pin(2, Pin.OUT, value=0)

        # add a homie node property
        self.p_power = HomieProperty(
            id="power",
            name="LED power",
            settable=True,
            datatype=BOOLEAN,
            default=TRUE,
        )
        self.add_property(self.power_property, self.on_power_msg)

    def on_power_message(self, topic, payload, retained):
        self.led(ONOFF[payload]

Properties

HomieNode.device

This property will be set to the device object, when a node is registered to the device. With this the methods in the device object can be called from the node object.

HomieNode.properties

Array that contains all the properties associated to the node.

Constructor

class homie.node.HomieNode(id, name, type)

Construct a HomieNode object. The arguments are:

• id is an unique id for the node.
• name is ne human readable node name.
• type is the node type.

Methods

HomieNode.set_topic(self)

Set the node base topic. This method will be called from the HomieDevice class on device setup.

HomieNode.add_property(self, p, cb=None)

This method adds HomieNodeProperty objects to the node object. The arguments are:

• p is a HomieNodeProperty object.
• cb can be an optional message handler that gets called if the property topic receive a message.

HomieNode.publish_properties(self)

This method gets called from the device object on device start and publish all properties registered with the node to MQTT.

This is an async method.