libpebble2 documentation

libpebble2 is a python library for interacting with Pebble devices. It:

  • Supports connections to Pebble QEMU instances and to watches via the Pebble mobile app
  • Supports connection to watches running both 2.x and 3.x firmware on aplite or basalt hardware
  • Provides automatic serialisation and deserialisation of pebble protocol messages
  • Asynchronous information is provided by a usable event system
  • Features a simple DSL for defining new message types
  • Provides ready-made implementations several Pebble Protocol services, including BlobDB and app installation
  • Works on Python 2.7 and 3.4

Getting Started

Installation

pip install libpebble2, or grab the source from https://github.com/pebble/libpebble2

Usage

Connecting:

>>> from libpebble2.communication import PebbleConnection
>>> from libpebble2.communication.transports.websocket import WebsocketTransport
>>> pebble = PebbleConnection(WebsocketTransport("ws://192.168.0.204:9000/"))
>>> pebble.connect()
>>> pebble.run_async()
>>> pebble.watch_info.serial
u'Q306175E006V'

Sending and receiving messages:

>>> from libpebble2.protocol import *
>>> pebble.send_packet(PingPong(message=Ping(), cookie=53))
>>> pebble.read_from_endpoint(PingPong)
PingPong(command=1, cookie=53, message=Pong())

Installing an app:

>>> from libpebble2.services.install import AppInstaller
>>> AppInstaller(pebble, "some_app.pbw").install()

Components

libpebble2 is split into a number of components.

Communication and transports

libpebble2 provides a PebbleConnection to connect to a Pebble. This class manages all Pebble Protocol communication, but does not itself know how to establish a connection to one. Connecting to a Pebble is handled by the transports, QemuTransport and WebsocketTransport. It is possible to define new transports if necessary.

Protocol

The protocol layer provides serialisation and deserialisation of Pebble Protocol messages (and, in fact, any arbitrary packed structure). It provides a simple DSL for defining messages:

class WatchFirmwareVersion(PebblePacket):
    timestamp = Uint32()
    version_tag = FixedString(32)
    git_hash = FixedString(8)
    is_recovery = Boolean()
    hardware_platform = Uint8()
    metadata_version = Uint8()

Most messages are defined by the library in the protocol package, but defining more is easy.

Services

Some watch services are more complex than one or two messages. For these, services are provided to reduce effort.

>>> import png  # from pypng
>>> image = Screenshot(pebble).grab_image()
>>> png.from_array(image, mode="RGB;8").save("screenshot.png")

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