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  • garmcqui
    Automated Home Guru
    • Jan 2015
    • 119

    Evohome - use windows PC?

    Hi,

    I've been reading the "Decoded Evohome API..." thread with great interest. However almost all of it went over my head very quickly. Sign of getting old I think!

    I know there's no official way, but I don't have Linux etc, only ordinary Windows PC's and was wondering if there is any way to control Evohome or (more importantly) access/produce logs from Evohome to, say, monitor the room temperature over a 2504h period.

    Cheers!!
  • ukhauk
    Automated Home Jr Member
    • Apr 2006
    • 22

    #2
    The API has been written in Python. You can download and install Python for windows. Loads of material on YouTube about Python

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    • garmcqui
      Automated Home Guru
      • Jan 2015
      • 119

      #3
      ok have downloaded and installed python, but I can't run any of the scripts. I have tried to install "Requests" but to no avail.

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      • ukhauk
        Automated Home Jr Member
        • Apr 2006
        • 22

        #4
        I use Geany to write edit and test looks like it's available for windows http://www.geany.org/Support/RunningOnWindows

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        • ukhauk
          Automated Home Jr Member
          • Apr 2006
          • 22

          #5
          Start by writing something simple printing "hello world" search for Python in YouTube and get something working that's how I started.

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          • Mavis
            Automated Home Ninja
            • Oct 2014
            • 322

            #6
            I have bought myself a book called Computer Coding For Kids from the Book People that come to work. It covers Scratch and Python in detail. I am hoping that it is written at a level that I can following without having to think about it too deeply.

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            • garmcqui
              Automated Home Guru
              • Jan 2015
              • 119

              #7
              Ok, thank you for the replies.

              I have watched several videos online, read several guides etc and *think* I have installed requests, json and the evohome client form github.

              However, I've just tried running the script below (the first one shown on the Evohome API thread)...

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              but I'm getting a message returned that the email or password are incorrect.

              I just wanted to check that I'm using the correct web addresses - is it different in the UK? The username and password I'm using are the ones I have to input to the iPhone app when first installed - yes?

              Thanks

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              • emmeesse68
                Automated Home Guru
                • Dec 2014
                • 103

                #8
                ...on a remotely related subject, since I noticed you are using Python 3.4.3, I fought with a lot of errors with 3.x. Then I realized most of the code around is written for Python 2.x... Installed Python 2.7 and everything went fine since then.

                It seems developers are sticking to legacy more than I suspected...

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