Bose SoundTouch API Python3 Library

Overview

This API provides Python programmers the ability to control Bose SoundTouch speakers from any program written in Python 3.

It utilizes the Bose SoundTouch Webservices API, which is hosted on each SoundTouch device.

More information about Bose SoundTouch speakers can be found on the Bose SoundTouch Family page.

Features

The following features are supported by this API.

• Media Player controls (play pause, resume, next track, prev track, repeat, shuffle, etc)
• Media Content (streaming radio, play http or https url, Google TTS)
• Media Volume control (set / retrieve, tick up / down, mute, smart mute)
• Select Sources (Aux, Bluetooth, Airplay, Deezer, Spotify, iHeart, SiriusXm, etc)
• Multi-room Zone functions (create zone, add / remove zone members, syncronized play)
• Power functions (smart power on / off, power toggle, power to standby)
• Bass Level (set, retrieve, supported min / max values)
• Presets (store, remove, remove all, select)
• Recent Media History (list recent content that was played, select recent item for play)
• Favorites (add, remove, thumbs up, thumbs down)
• Snapshot device settings (store, restore)
• Change Device Name
• Configuration data (clock time, clock, timezone, capabilities, bass capabilities)
• Notifications (receive real-time status updates from the device)
• ID3 tag support for media content played from a url
• ... and more

Requirements and Dependencies

The following requirements must be met in order to utilize this API:

• Bose SoundTouch Speaker(s) that support the SoundTouch Webservices API.
  • SoundTouch 10
  • SoundTouch 300
  • I have only tested with the above (what can I say; Bose products are expensive, and I can only afford the two! :D )
  • Other SoundTouch devices should be compatible.
  • Note that the newer line of Bose Speakers (Home Speaker 500, 700, etc) are NOT supported as they do not utilize the Bose WebServices API.

The following Python-related requirements must be met in order to utilize this API:

• Python 3.4 or greater (Python 2 not supported).
• smartinspectPython package (>= 3.0.21) - for diagnostics and logging support.
• websocket-client package (>= 2.0).
• urllib3 package (>= 1.2.0).

Documentation

Documentation is located in the package library under the 'docs' folder; use the index.html as your starting point.

Installation

This module can be easily installed via pip:

$ python3 -m pip install bosesoundtouchapi

Quick-Start Sample Code

Almost every method is documented with sample code; just click on the "Sample Code" links under the method, and use the "Copy to Clipboard" functionality to copy / paste.

Check out the following classes to get you started:

• bosesoundtouchapi.soundtouchclient.SoundTouchClient - device controls and data gathering.
• bosesoundtouchapi.websockets.soundtouchwebsocket.SoundTouchWebSocket - web-socket notification support.

Licensing

This project is licensed and distributed under the terms of the MIT End-User License Agreement (EULA) license.

Portions of this code and the overall "flow" were taken from contributions made by MatrixEditor. My original intent was to fork his repository and add some changes, but there were just too many and I wanted to change some things that would have broken backward compatibility so I continued with my own repository.

Logging / Tracing Support

The SmartInspectPython package (installed with this package) can be used to easily debug your applications that utilize this API.

The following topics and code samples will get you started on how to enable logging support.
Note that logging support can be turned on and off without changing code or restarting the application.
Click on the topics below to expand the section and reveal more information.

; smartinspect.cfg

; SmartInspect Logging Configuration General settings.
; - "Enabled" parameter to turn logging on (True) or off (False).
; - "Level" parameter to control the logging level (Debug|Verbose|Message|Warning|Error).
; - "AppName" parameter to control the application name.
Enabled = False 
Level = Verbose
DefaultLevel = Debug
AppName = My Application Name

; SmartInspect Logging Configuration Output settings.
; - Log to SmartInspect Console Viewer running on the specified network address.
Connections = tcp(host=192.168.1.1,port=4228,timeout=5000,reconnect=true,reconnect.interval=10s,async.enabled=true)
; - Log to a file, keeping 14 days worth of logs.
;Connections = "file(filename=\"./tests/logfiles/logfile.log\", rotate=daily, maxparts=14, append=true)"
; - Log to an encrypted file, keeping 14 days worth of logs.
;Connections = "file(filename=\"./tests/logfiles/logfileEncrypted.sil\", encrypt=true, key=""1234567890123456"", rotate=daily, maxparts=14, append=true)"

; set defaults for new sessions
; note that session defaults do not apply to the SiAuto.Main session, since
; this session was already added before a configuration file can be loaded. 
; session defaults only apply to newly added sessions and do not affect existing sessions.
SessionDefaults.Active = True
SessionDefaults.Level = Message
SessionDefaults.ColorBG = 0xFFFFFF

; configure some individual session properties.
; note that this does not add the session to the sessionmanager; it simply
; sets the property values IF the session name already exists.
Session.Main.Active = True
Session.Main.ColorBG = 0xFFFFFF

# load SmartInspect settings from a configuration settings file.
from smartinspectpython.siauto import *
siConfigPath:str = "./tests/smartinspect.cfg"
SIAuto.Si.LoadConfiguration(siConfigPath)

# start monitoring the configuration file for changes, and reload it when it changes.
# this will check the file for changes every 60 seconds.
siConfig:SIConfigurationTimer = SIConfigurationTimer(SIAuto.Si, siConfigPath, 60)

# get smartinspect logger reference.
_logsi:SISession = SIAuto.Main

# log system environment and application startup parameters.
_logsi.LogSeparator(SILevel.Fatal)
_logsi.LogAppDomain(SILevel.Verbose)
_logsi.LogSystem(SILevel.Verbose)

# get smartinspect logger reference.
from smartinspectpython.siauto import *
_logsi:SISession = SIAuto.Main

$ python3 -m pip install smartinspectpython
  

Contributing

Contributions are what make the open source community such an amazing place to learn, inspire, and create. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated.

If you have a suggestion that would make this better, please fork the repo and create a pull request. You can also simply open an issue with the tag "enhancement".

1. Fork the Project
2. Create your Feature Branch git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature
3. Commit your Changes git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature'
4. Push to the Branch git push origin feature/AmazingFeature
5. Open a Pull Request