tip [TIP] Sengled smart bulb support

[cr08 6]

Thought I'd add this as a tip here as I found a supporting github repo recently and was able to get some nice python scripts going.

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So I use mainly Sengled brand smart bulbs in my house including their own Zigbee based hub as they have historically been cheap and easy to acquire from a number of retailers including Amazon as well as local brick-and-mortars like Microcenter and Home Depot in my neck of the woods. However using their own hub means there's no stock 'integration' or API options outside of their own app or Alexa/Google Home.

Found a GitHub repo that provides a very clean 'API' of sorts for Sengled products that goes through their web servers and doesn't require migrating to a third party hub.

https://github.com/vroy/python-sengled-client

Here's a quick and dirty sample python script I wrote using this. It is largely using the examples right on the github page. REALLY easy to read and understand.

import sengled

api = sengled.api(
    # The username/password that you used to create your mobile account in
    # the Sengled Home app.
    username="***",
    password="***",

    # Optional path to persist the session across multiple process
    # starts and reduce the number of logins.
    #session_path="~/sengled.pickle",

    # Prints details of the api request/responses when True, defaults to false.
    debug=True
)

api.find_by_id("ABCDEF1234567890") \
.on() \
.set_brightness(100) \
.set_brightness(95) \
.set_brightness(90) \
.set_brightness(85) \
.set_brightness(80) \
.set_brightness(75) \
.set_brightness(70) \
.set_brightness(65) \
.set_brightness(60) \
.set_brightness(55) \
.set_brightness(50) \
.set_brightness(45) \
.set_brightness(40) \
.set_brightness(35) \
.set_brightness(30) \
.set_brightness(25) \
.set_brightness(20) \
.set_brightness(15) \
.set_brightness(10) \
.set_brightness(5) \
.set_brightness(4) \
.set_brightness(3) \
.set_brightness(1)

Which basically just makes sure the selected bulbs/groups are brought up to 100% and slowly dims down to 1%. It also supports their smart plugs and color changing bulbs in addition to the barebones single color/temp dimmable bulbs.