overview

this is a python script to manipulate the power on an aviosys ip power 9258 managed outlet. this uses their lame HTTP interface in order to manipulate the outlet state.

this thing has an exceedingly crappy user interface, i don't recommend it to anyone except on pure basis of price. this script simply wrappers some of the more annoying things associated with their HTTP interface.

requirements

written using python 3.7
see the pipfile for more info re: requirements.

configuration parameters

put your configuration parameters into ~/.config/botpower.cfg. the format is YAML.

# admin is the default username from aviosys
username: admin
# '12345678' is the default password from aviosys. i'm assuming you've
# changed this to somehing a bit more useful.
password: 12345678
# i'm using the requests library so it should behave reasonably here
hostname: "10.0.0.x"
# note that the trailing '?' is important in the following.  this is the
# CGI program they have running on this POS.  don't get clever here,
# they don't actually parse query parameters, so you have to craft the
# query string by hand in the script.
api_url: "/set.Cmdr?"

operation

example(s)

turn outlet #1 on.

botpower.py -a on -o 1
outlet: 1
action: on
current outlet status
---------------------
outlet: 1 power: on

display the current state of the outlets.

botpower.py -a display
outlet: 1
action: display
current outlet status
---------------------
outlet: 1 power: on
outlet: 2 power: off
outlet: 3 power: off
outlet: 4 power: off

mandatory arguments

-a, --action

the action to effect upon an outlet. valid actions are as follows:

- on  - turn the given outlet on
- off - turn the given outlet off
- display - display the current state of the outlets

if the action is 'on' or 'off' you will need to provid the outlet that you wish to address the action at with the -o argument.

-o, --outlet

outlet to manipulate, valid values are as follows:
- single value from 1 - 4. 1 at a time.
- all: execute the associated action on all ports

optional arguments

these will override your config file values.