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OVH API notes

Create App: https://eu.api.ovh.com/createApp/

Python wrapper project: https://github.com/ovh/python-ovh

Web API control panel: https://eu.api.ovh.com/console/#/

# Where to find the ID of your application created from the portal

/me/api/application


# If you use the python script to get the customer_key
# You can find the ID here, filtering by application ID

/me/api/credential


# Here you can find your serviceName (project ID)
# - I got mad to understand what it was before!

/cloud/project

# Where to find the ID of your application created from the portal

/me/api/application

# If you use the python script to get the customer_key

# You can find the ID here, filtering by application ID

/me/api/credential

# Here you can find your serviceName (project ID)

# - I got mad to understand what it was before!

/cloud/project

Example of ovh.conf file

[default]
endpoint=ovh-eu

[ovh-eu]
application_key=my_app_key
application_secret=my_application_secret
;consumer_key=my_consumer_key

;consumer_key needs to be uncommented once you have got it

[default]

endpoint=ovh-eu

[ovh-eu]

application_key=my_app_key

application_secret=my_application_secret

;consumer_key=my_consumer_key

;consumer_key needs to be uncommented once you have got it

Custom python script to allow access only to a specific project under my Cloud OVH account

# -*- encoding: utf-8 -*-

import ovh

# create a client using configuration
client = ovh.Client()

# Request full access to /cloud/project/<PROJECT_ID>/
ck = client.new_consumer_key_request()
ck.add_recursive_rules(ovh.API_READ_WRITE, '/cloud/project/<PROJECT_ID>/')

## Request full access to ALL
#ck = client.new_consumer_key_request()
# ck.add_recursive_rules(ovh.API_READ_WRITE, '/')

# Request token
validation = ck.request()

print "Please visit %s to authenticate" % validation['validationUrl']
raw_input("and press Enter to continue...")

# Print customerKey
print "Btw, your 'consumerKey' is '%s'" % validation['consumerKey']

# -*- encoding: utf-8 -*-

import ovh

# create a client using configuration

client = ovh.Client()

# Request full access to /cloud/project/<PROJECT_ID>/

ck = client.new_consumer_key_request()

ck.add_recursive_rules(ovh.API_READ_WRITE, '/cloud/project/<PROJECT_ID>/')

## Request full access to ALL

#ck = client.new_consumer_key_request()

# ck.add_recursive_rules(ovh.API_READ_WRITE, '/')

# Request token

validation = ck.request()

print "Please visit %s to authenticate" % validation['validationUrl']

raw_input("and press Enter to continue...")

# Print customerKey

print "Btw, your 'consumerKey' is '%s'" % validation['consumerKey']

How to create a script

Create the app from the link above
Get the keys and store them safely
Install the OVH python wrapper
Create ovh.conf file and use the keys from your app
Use the python example (or mine) to get the customerKey
Update ovh.conf with the customKey
Create your script and have fun! 🙂

Script example to get a list of snapshots:

# -*- encoding: utf-8 -*-
import json
import ovh

serviceName="<PROJECT_ID>"
region="GRA3"


# Auth
client = ovh.Client()


result = client.get("/cloud/project/%s/snapshot" % serviceName,
    flavorType=None,
    region="%s" % region,
)


# Pretty print
print json.dumps(result, indent=4)

# -*- encoding: utf-8 -*-

import json

import ovh

serviceName="<PROJECT_ID>"

region="GRA3"

# Auth

client = ovh.Client()

result = client.get("/cloud/project/%s/snapshot" % serviceName,

flavorType=None,

region="%s" % region,

)

# Pretty print

print json.dumps(result, indent=4)

Whatsapp to command your Raspberry Pi and Nagios monitoring

Do you want to command your Raspberry Pi via Whatsapp and have this system monitored and brought up by Nagios in case it dies?

Follow this guide! 🙂

Requirements:

Spare SIM card (number will be used by your Raspberry Pi)
A phone to keep the SIM card on during the registration process only
A Raspberry Pi (Debian 8 recommended)
Nagios

Let’s do it!

Step 1: Put your SIM in the phone and make sure the SIM can receive text messages (no data is required)

Step 2: Install/configure your Raspberry Pi

Installation

Yuwsup

To make all this magic happening, we’re going to use Yowsup

Here some easy steps to install on Raspian: (you can use also pip install yowsup2):

$ sudo apt-get install git python-dev libncurses5-dev
$ git clone git://github.com/tgalal/yowsup.git
$ cd yowsup
$ sudo python setup.py install

$ sudo apt-get install git python-dev libncurses5-dev

$ git clone git://github.com/tgalal/yowsup.git

$ cd yowsup

$ sudo python setup.py install

Once installed, you need to register your phone number, extract the password and use it to configure the following scripts.

To register, create a file called mydetails and add the following (replace country code and phone number accordingly):

cc=44
phone=447711111123

1 2	cc=44 phone=447711111123

After that, run this:

python yowsup-cli registration --config mydetails --requestcode sms

1	python yowsup-cli registration --config mydetails --requestcode sms

You should receive a text on your phone with a 6 digits code (xxx-xxx format). Use the following command to get the password:

python yowsup-cli registration --config mydetails --register xxx-xxx

1	python yowsup-cli registration --config mydetails --register xxx-xxx

After a little while, you should see some output like this:

status: ok

kind: free

pw: 9BkIpOaLpCk1LxuQIK8Vrt6XwNkj=

price: 0.79

price_expiration: 1434674994

currency: GBP

cost: 0.79

expiration: 1463544490

login: 4425784541474

type: new

status: ok

kind: free

pw: 9BkIpOaLpCk1LxuQIK8Vrt6XwNkj=

price: 0.79

price_expiration: 1434674994

currency: GBP

cost: 0.79

expiration: 1463544490

type: new

Grab the pw bit and add append to your mydetails file:

cc=44
phone=447711111123
password=9BkIpOaLpCk1LxuQIK8Vrt6XwNkj=

cc=44

phone=447711111123

password=9BkIpOaLpCk1LxuQIK8Vrt6XwNkj=

Now you can test using the below bash script (demo.sh):

#!/bin/bash
echo -e "\e[31m"
echo 'Once you get the prompt just use /L to go online'
echo 'After that you can send a message in this way:'
echo '/message send 449988776655 "Hello from the Raspberry Pi!"'
echo -e "\e[0m\n"

yowsup-cli demos --yowsup --config mydetails

#!/bin/bash

echo -e "\e[31m"

echo 'Once you get the prompt just use /L to go online'

echo 'After that you can send a message in this way:'

echo '/message send 449988776655 "Hello from the Raspberry Pi!"'

echo -e "\e[0m\n"

yowsup-cli demos --yowsup --config mydetails

All should (hopefully) work! 🙂

Python scripts for yowsup

The following scripts and configurations are based on the following:

the user “piuser” is the one who will run the main scripts
scripts are stored into /home/piuser/WhatsappOnPi/scripts
the user “nagios” will need some extra privileges to run some scripts

In /home/piuser/WhatsappOnPi/scripts create the following scripts:

1) whatsapp.py

This script is the one that keeps layer.py script up and running.

from yowsup.stacks                             import YowStackBuilder
from yowsup.common                             import YowConstants
from yowsup.layers                             import YowLayerEvent
from layer                                     import EchoLayer
from yowsup.layers.auth                        import YowAuthenticationProtocolLayer
from yowsup.layers.coder                       import YowCoderLayer
from yowsup.layers.network                     import YowNetworkLayer
from yowsup.env                                import YowsupEnv
from mysettings import *

#Uncomment to log
#import logging
#logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)

CREDENTIALS = (phone, password)

if __name__==  "__main__":
    stackBuilder = YowStackBuilder()

    stack = stackBuilder\
        .pushDefaultLayers(True)\
        .push(EchoLayer)\
        .build()

    stack.setProp(YowAuthenticationProtocolLayer.PROP_CREDENTIALS, CREDENTIALS)       #setting credentials
    stack.broadcastEvent(YowLayerEvent(YowNetworkLayer.EVENT_STATE_CONNECT))          #sending the connect signal
    stack.setProp(YowNetworkLayer.PROP_ENDPOINT, YowConstants.ENDPOINTS[0])           #whatsapp server address
    stack.setProp(YowCoderLayer.PROP_DOMAIN, YowConstants.DOMAIN)
    stack.setProp(YowCoderLayer.PROP_RESOURCE, YowsupEnv.getCurrent().getResource())  #info about us as WhatsApp client

    stack.loop( timeout = 0.5, discrete = 0.5 )

from yowsup.stacks import YowStackBuilder

from yowsup.common import YowConstants

from yowsup.layers import YowLayerEvent

from layer import EchoLayer

from yowsup.layers.auth import YowAuthenticationProtocolLayer

from yowsup.layers.coder import YowCoderLayer

from yowsup.layers.network import YowNetworkLayer

from yowsup.env import YowsupEnv

from mysettings import *

#Uncomment to log

#import logging

#logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)

CREDENTIALS = (phone, password)

if __name__== "__main__":

stackBuilder = YowStackBuilder()

stack = stackBuilder\

.pushDefaultLayers(True)\

.push(EchoLayer)\

.build()

stack.setProp(YowAuthenticationProtocolLayer.PROP_CREDENTIALS, CREDENTIALS) #setting credentials

stack.broadcastEvent(YowLayerEvent(YowNetworkLayer.EVENT_STATE_CONNECT)) #sending the connect signal

stack.setProp(YowNetworkLayer.PROP_ENDPOINT, YowConstants.ENDPOINTS[0]) #whatsapp server address

stack.setProp(YowCoderLayer.PROP_DOMAIN, YowConstants.DOMAIN)

stack.setProp(YowCoderLayer.PROP_RESOURCE, YowsupEnv.getCurrent().getResource()) #info about us as WhatsApp client

stack.loop( timeout = 0.5, discrete = 0.5 )

2) layer.py

This script is the main one that you need to customise as you’d like:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import os, subprocess, time, re
from yowsup.layers                                     import YowLayer
from yowsup.layers.interface                           import YowInterfaceLayer, ProtocolEntityCallback
from yowsup.layers.protocol_messages.protocolentities  import TextMessageProtocolEntity
from yowsup.layers.protocol_receipts.protocolentities  import OutgoingReceiptProtocolEntity
from yowsup.layers.protocol_acks.protocolentities      import OutgoingAckProtocolEntity
from mysettings	import *

ap = set(allowedPersons)

# Message on Start Up
startcommand='yowsup-cli demos -l %s:%s -s %s "*[INFO] System Started*: `uptime`" 2>&1 > /dev/null ' % (phone, password, destphone)
subprocess.call(startcommand , shell=True)



def sendMessage(self, messageProtocolEntity, msg):
   outgoingMessageProtocolEntity = TextMessageProtocolEntity(
      ''+msg+'',
      to = messageProtocolEntity.getFrom())
   self.toLower(outgoingMessageProtocolEntity)

class EchoLayer(YowInterfaceLayer):
    @ProtocolEntityCallback("message")
    def onMessage(self, messageProtocolEntity):
        #send receipt otherwise we keep receiving the same message over and over

        if True:
            receipt = OutgoingReceiptProtocolEntity(messageProtocolEntity.getId(), messageProtocolEntity.getFrom(), 'read', messageProtocolEntity.getParticipant())
            self.toLower(receipt)

        if messageProtocolEntity.getFrom(False) in ap:
             message_body = messageProtocolEntity.getBody().lower().strip(' \t\r\n\0')
             #print (message_body)

             # Local System Control
             if 'help' in (message_body):
		msg='Commands available:\nrestart <device>\nuptime\ndf\nlast\nrouter'
                sendMessage(self, messageProtocolEntity, msg)
	     #elif 'reboot' in (message_body):
             #   result=subprocess.check_output(["sudo", "reboot"])
             #   msg='reboot: '+result+''
             #   sendMessage(self, messageProtocolEntity, msg)
             elif 'uptime' in (message_body):
                result=subprocess.check_output(["uptime"])
                msg=''+result+''
                sendMessage(self, messageProtocolEntity, msg)
             elif 'df' in (message_body):
                result=subprocess.check_output(["df", "-h"])
                msg=''+result+''
                sendMessage(self, messageProtocolEntity, msg)
             elif 'last' in (message_body):
                result=subprocess.check_output(["last"])
                msg=''+result+''
                sendMessage(self, messageProtocolEntity, msg)
             elif 'router' in (message_body):
                result=subprocess.check_output(["/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_router_speed"])
                msg=''+result+''
                sendMessage(self, messageProtocolEntity, msg)


             # Reboots Control
             # ---------------
             # this uses a wrapper called 'restart_device'
             # bash script with 'case' that issues specific commands over ssh
             # to restart different hosts

             elif message_body.startswith('restart'):
                cmd = message_body.split('restart', 1)[1]
                if 'skyhub' in (cmd):
		   result=subprocess.check_output(["sudo", "restart_device", "router1"])
                   msg=''+result+''
                   sendMessage(self, messageProtocolEntity, msg)
                elif 'asus8uk' in (cmd):
		   result=subprocess.check_output(["sudo", "restart_device", "router2"])
                   msg=''+result+''
                   sendMessage(self, messageProtocolEntity, msg)
		elif 'raspberrino' in (cmd):
		   result=subprocess.check_output(["sudo", "restart_device", "raspberrypi"])
                   msg=''+result+''
                   sendMessage(self, messageProtocolEntity, msg)
		elif 'raspbxino' in (cmd):
                   result=subprocess.check_output(["sudo", "restart_device", "pbx"])
                   msg=''+result+''
                   sendMessage(self, messageProtocolEntity, msg)
                else:
                   msg='Usage: restart (router1|router2|raspberrypi|pbx)'
                   sendMessage(self, messageProtocolEntity, msg)

             else:
                msg='Command '+messageProtocolEntity.getBody()+' unknown.\nUse: help'
                sendMessage(self, messageProtocolEntity, msg)

        else:
	     # Report
             msg='** Alert**  \nSender: '+messageProtocolEntity.getFrom()+' '+messageProtocolEntity.getBody()+''
             outgoingMessageProtocolEntity = TextMessageProtocolEntity(
                ''+msg+'',
                to = '%s@s.whatsapp.net' % destphone )
             self.toLower(outgoingMessageProtocolEntity)

             # Reply
             msg='No'
             sendMessage(self, messageProtocolEntity, msg)

    @ProtocolEntityCallback("receipt")
    def onReceipt(self, entity):
        ack = OutgoingAckProtocolEntity(entity.getId(), "receipt", entity.getType(), entity.getFrom())
        self.toLower(ack)

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# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import os, subprocess, time, re

from yowsup.layers import YowLayer

from yowsup.layers.interface import YowInterfaceLayer, ProtocolEntityCallback

from yowsup.layers.protocol_messages.protocolentities import TextMessageProtocolEntity

from yowsup.layers.protocol_receipts.protocolentities import OutgoingReceiptProtocolEntity

from yowsup.layers.protocol_acks.protocolentities import OutgoingAckProtocolEntity

from mysettings import *

ap = set(allowedPersons)

# Message on Start Up

startcommand='yowsup-cli demos -l %s:%s -s %s "*[INFO] System Started*: `uptime`" 2>&1 > /dev/null ' % (phone, password, destphone)

subprocess.call(startcommand , shell=True)

def sendMessage(self, messageProtocolEntity, msg):

outgoingMessageProtocolEntity = TextMessageProtocolEntity(

''+msg+'',

to = messageProtocolEntity.getFrom())

self.toLower(outgoingMessageProtocolEntity)

class EchoLayer(YowInterfaceLayer):

@ProtocolEntityCallback("message")

def onMessage(self, messageProtocolEntity):

#send receipt otherwise we keep receiving the same message over and over

if True:

receipt = OutgoingReceiptProtocolEntity(messageProtocolEntity.getId(), messageProtocolEntity.getFrom(), 'read', messageProtocolEntity.getParticipant())

self.toLower(receipt)

if messageProtocolEntity.getFrom(False) in ap:

message_body = messageProtocolEntity.getBody().lower().strip(' \t\r\n\0')

#print (message_body)

# Local System Control

if 'help' in (message_body):

msg='Commands available:\nrestart <device>\nuptime\ndf\nlast\nrouter'

sendMessage(self, messageProtocolEntity, msg)

#elif 'reboot' in (message_body):

# result=subprocess.check_output(["sudo", "reboot"])

# msg='reboot: '+result+''

# sendMessage(self, messageProtocolEntity, msg)

elif 'uptime' in (message_body):

result=subprocess.check_output(["uptime"])

msg=''+result+''

sendMessage(self, messageProtocolEntity, msg)

elif 'df' in (message_body):

result=subprocess.check_output(["df", "-h"])

msg=''+result+''

sendMessage(self, messageProtocolEntity, msg)

elif 'last' in (message_body):

result=subprocess.check_output(["last"])

msg=''+result+''

sendMessage(self, messageProtocolEntity, msg)

elif 'router' in (message_body):

result=subprocess.check_output(["/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_router_speed"])

msg=''+result+''

sendMessage(self, messageProtocolEntity, msg)

# Reboots Control

# ---------------

# this uses a wrapper called 'restart_device'

# bash script with 'case' that issues specific commands over ssh

# to restart different hosts

elif message_body.startswith('restart'):

cmd = message_body.split('restart', 1)[1]

if 'skyhub' in (cmd):

result=subprocess.check_output(["sudo", "restart_device", "router1"])

msg=''+result+''

sendMessage(self, messageProtocolEntity, msg)

elif 'asus8uk' in (cmd):

result=subprocess.check_output(["sudo", "restart_device", "router2"])

msg=''+result+''

sendMessage(self, messageProtocolEntity, msg)

elif 'raspberrino' in (cmd):

result=subprocess.check_output(["sudo", "restart_device", "raspberrypi"])

msg=''+result+''

sendMessage(self, messageProtocolEntity, msg)

elif 'raspbxino' in (cmd):

result=subprocess.check_output(["sudo", "restart_device", "pbx"])

msg=''+result+''

sendMessage(self, messageProtocolEntity, msg)

else:

msg='Usage: restart (router1|router2|raspberrypi|pbx)'

sendMessage(self, messageProtocolEntity, msg)

else:

msg='Command '+messageProtocolEntity.getBody()+' unknown.\nUse: help'

sendMessage(self, messageProtocolEntity, msg)

else:

# Report

msg='** Alert** \nSender: '+messageProtocolEntity.getFrom()+' '+messageProtocolEntity.getBody()+''

outgoingMessageProtocolEntity = TextMessageProtocolEntity(

''+msg+'',

to = '%[email protected]' % destphone )

self.toLower(outgoingMessageProtocolEntity)

# Reply

msg='No'

sendMessage(self, messageProtocolEntity, msg)

@ProtocolEntityCallback("receipt")

def onReceipt(self, entity):

ack = OutgoingAckProtocolEntity(entity.getId(), "receipt", entity.getType(), entity.getFrom())

self.toLower(ack)

3) mysettings.py

This is included in both scripts and it needs to be updated accordingly:

#################################################################################################
# TO EDIT - add your phone number and password
#
phone="447711111123"
password="9BkIpOaLpCk1LxuQIK8Vrt6XwNkj="
destphone="<your_personal_number>"
#allowedPersons=['<your_personal_number>','<another_number_allowed_to_talk_with_your_pi>']
allowedPersons=['<your_personal_number>']
#
#################################################################################################

#################################################################################################

# TO EDIT - add your phone number and password

phone="447711111123"

password="9BkIpOaLpCk1LxuQIK8Vrt6XwNkj="

destphone="<your_personal_number>"

#allowedPersons=['<your_personal_number>','<another_number_allowed_to_talk_with_your_pi>']

allowedPersons=['<your_personal_number>']

#################################################################################################

Now let’s create a wrapper to start the script: /usr/local/bin/whatsapp_start

#!/bin/bash

# kill process if running
for PID in $(ps aux | grep -i "[p]ython.*whatsapp" | awk '{print $2}') ; do
   kill -9 $PID > /dev/null 2>&1
done

# restart process
python /home/piuser/WhatsappOnPi/scripts/whatsapp.py &

#!/bin/bash

# kill process if running

for PID in $(ps aux | grep -i "[p]ython.*whatsapp" | awk '{print $2}') ; do

kill -9 $PID > /dev/null 2>&1

done

# restart process

python /home/piuser/WhatsappOnPi/scripts/whatsapp.py &

And now let’s append this into /etc/rc.local:

echo "Starting whatsapp service"
su - piuser -c /usr/local/bin/whatsapp_start

1 2	echo "Starting whatsapp service" su - piuser -c /usr/local/bin/whatsapp_start

Done!
Every time we reboot the server, the script will start!

But… what happens if the script dies or something goes wrong?

Answer: Nagios!

Create custom plugin script for Nagios and save it in /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_whatsapp

NOTE: Make sure to follow the notes in this script to proper setup visudo

#!/bin/bash

####################################################################################
# user 'nagios' needs to be allowed to run 'netstat' using sudo
# and /usr/local/bin/whatsapp_start to run as 'piuser'
#
# Required lines in visudo:
#
#    Cmnd_Alias WHATSAPP_CMD = /bin/su - piuser -c /usr/local/bin/whatsapp_start
#    nagios ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:/bin/netstat,WHATSAPP_CMD
#
####################################################################################

sudo netstat -pant | grep -q "ESTABLISHED.*python"

if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then
   echo "OK- Whatsapp is up and running"
   exit 0
else
   echo "CRITICAL- Whatsapp service stopped or not connected. Attempting restart."
   sudo su - piuser -c /usr/local/bin/whatsapp_start
   exit 2
fi

#!/bin/bash

####################################################################################

# user 'nagios' needs to be allowed to run 'netstat' using sudo

# and /usr/local/bin/whatsapp_start to run as 'piuser'

# Required lines in visudo:

# Cmnd_Alias WHATSAPP_CMD = /bin/su - piuser -c /usr/local/bin/whatsapp_start

# nagios ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:/bin/netstat,WHATSAPP_CMD

####################################################################################

sudo netstat -pant | grep -q "ESTABLISHED.*python"

if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then

echo "OK- Whatsapp is up and running"

exit 0

else

echo "CRITICAL- Whatsapp service stopped or not connected. Attempting restart."

sudo su - piuser -c /usr/local/bin/whatsapp_start

exit 2

Now let’s enable this script in /etc/nagios/nrpe_local.cfg:

command[check_whatsapp]=/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_whatsapp

1	command[check_whatsapp]=/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_whatsapp

On the Nagios SERVER, let’s add the new service.
Following my current setup mentioned here, I’m going to add the following in /etc/nagios3/conf.d/hostgroups_services.cfg

#######################################################################################
# Check Whatsapp Service
define hostgroup {
        hostgroup_name  whatsapp-servers
                alias           whatsapp servers
        }
define service {
        hostgroup_name                  whatsapp-servers
        service_description             whatsapp service
	normal_check_interval           5
        retry_check_interval            2
        check_command                   check_nrpe_1arg!check_whatsapp
        use                             generic-service
}

#######################################################################################

#######################################################################################

# Check Whatsapp Service

define hostgroup {

hostgroup_name whatsapp-servers

alias whatsapp servers

}

define service {

hostgroup_name whatsapp-servers

service_description whatsapp service

normal_check_interval 5

retry_check_interval 2

check_command check_nrpe_1arg!check_whatsapp

use generic-service

}

#######################################################################################

When the service is configured, we need to append this service on the host where we want the check to be executed and verified (config in /etc/nagios3/conf.d/hosts.cfg – eg:)

        hostgroups      allservers,ssh-servers,http-servers,whatsapp-servers

1	hostgroups allservers,ssh-servers,http-servers,whatsapp-servers

A couple of restarts/reloads (nagios client and nagios server), and the check should be now visible in the web interface! 🙂

NOTE: You might see “Waiting for this message. This may take a while.” on your Whatsapp while trying to talk with your Pi. And you can wait as much as you like, but it won’t get fixed by itself.

So… how make things working again?
What I’ve done to fix it is:

stopping nagios3 (setup to try to restart Whatsapp script if down)
kill the whatsapp python script running
use the above demo.sh script to send/receive some manual messages
if you can chat (send/receive correctly), you can now stop demo.sh script and start again your whatsapp python script

This always fixed this issue for me 🙂

Apologies for the typos and mistakes. This has been published more as a note for me than a proper how-to

Source: http://www.techradar.com/how-to/computing/how-to-control-a-raspberry-pi-using-whatsapp-1315610/2

Many thanks to Paul for the initial python scripts templates 🙂

Physically restart Sky router via Raspberry Pi

I have a Sky Hub router, the SR102 (black). Previously I had the white version as well.
Nice routers, pretty stable, but badly locked. You can change the SID of your wifi, change the password… not either sure if you can do a proper port forwarding. So… perfect for my mum, but a pain for whoever wants a little bit of extra control.

I had already an ASUS RT-N16 with DD-WRT firmware so I used the DMZ function on the Sky router to have some sort of “link” of the public IP of my broadband directly on the WAN interface of the router. In this way it’s like that is my ASUS router that does the connection and I can play as freely as I want, without caring much about the Sky router.

However, it happens that sometimes you need to give a full reboot to the main Sky router. And maybe do this automatically or via command line/script. And here it’s when things are getting more complicated.

The Sky Hub router allows you to reboot it via HTTP. Using the DMZ anyway will bypass the router itself and forward all the requests to the ASUS router. Also, I have never liked the idea to expose my router management page to the Internet, but I rather prefer to connect via SSH on a Raspberry Pi and issue commands from the terminal (telnet/ssh).

So, beside my multiple attempts to find a way to curl the button on the page, I had to find an alternative way to makes this happen. Of course, it didn’t help either to call the Sky Helpline asking if there was a remote possibility to have telnet enabled.

After a bit of talks on Facebook with some friends, here the solution: Remote Controlled Sockets with Pi-mote

Yes. If I can’t reboot from inside, let’s to that from outside!

The process was pretty straight forward.

First of all, I had to turn off my Raspberry Pi, and plug the “little green piece of board” as mentioned in here

After that, I’ve turned the pi on again, and installed the required packages. Happily I found that there is now the python library available for energenie, so I have installed them as well, making my life easier 🙂

apt-get install python-rpi.gpio python-pip
pip install energenie

1 2	apt-get install python-rpi.gpio python-pip pip install energenie

Once done, I have created these two basic script and I have run one a time, to configure the socket plugs.

Make sure to plug the ONE SOCKET PLUG A TIME and run the relative script.

You can find more information in the previous PDF, but these sockets learn who they are based on which commands they are receiving during the learning mode (enabling keeping the green button pressed for about 5 seconds when switched off). So if you run the first script with both plugs connected and in learning mode, they will do exactly the same, and unless you want to control two sockets at the same time, better to follow the instructions 🙂

Script to configure the first socket:

from energenie import switch_on, switch_off
from time import sleep

# turn the first plug socket ON and then OFF
switch_on(1)
sleep(5)
switch_off(1)

from energenie import switch_on, switch_off

from time import sleep

# turn the first plug socket ON and then OFF

switch_on(1)

sleep(5)

switch_off(1)

Script to configure the second socket:

from energenie import switch_on, switch_off
from time import sleep

# turn the second plug socket ON and then OFF
switch_on(2)
sleep(5)
switch_off(2)

from energenie import switch_on, switch_off

from time import sleep

# turn the second plug socket ON and then OFF

switch_on(2)

sleep(5)

switch_off(2)

And now, my simple script to make… “the magic”: plugs.py

from energenie import switch_on, switch_off
from time import sleep
import sys

if len(sys.argv) == 1:
    print "Use:\n# python plug.py <plug_ID> <ON/OFF>\ne.g. # python plug.py 1 ON"
    exit(1)

else:
    plug = sys.argv[1]
    status = sys.argv[2]

if status.lower() == 'on':
   switch_on(int(plug))
else:
   switch_off(int(plug))

from energenie import switch_on, switch_off

from time import sleep

import sys

if len(sys.argv) == 1:

print "Use:\n# python plug.py <plug_ID> <ON/OFF>\ne.g. # python plug.py 1 ON"

exit(1)

else:

plug = sys.argv[1]

status = sys.argv[2]

if status.lower() == 'on':

switch_on(int(plug))

else:

switch_off(int(plug))

You can use this script to control any sockets (up to 4 – hardware limitation).

And here a bash wrapper (I’m not really good in python sorry) that calls plugs.py and restart the router: restart_sky_router

#!/bin/bash

# This script requires plug.py script

if [ "$EUID" -ne 0 ]
  then echo "Please run as root or use 'sudo'"
  exit
fi

echo "Switching OFF and then ON the physical socket"


# Uses ENERGENIE Radio controlled Sockets
python plug.py 1 off
sleep 10
python plug.py 1 on

#!/bin/bash

# This script requires plug.py script

if [ "$EUID" -ne 0 ]

then echo "Please run as root or use 'sudo'"

exit

echo "Switching OFF and then ON the physical socket"

# Uses ENERGENIE Radio controlled Sockets

python plug.py 1 off

sleep 10

python plug.py 1 on

Now, I can have my Nagios system to check for the speed as documented here and eventually issue restart_sky_router script to see if it fixes the issue. Or simply be able to have a command to integrate in your scripts!

My notepad

Chris' IT notes…

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