Installation¶
pmatic can either be installed and used on any Linux system of your choice having Python installed or directly on the Homematic CCU. Later might be useful if you want to run your scripts when all your other devices aren’t running.
Installation on the CCU2¶
You have two options to download pmatic. To have a stable version, you should
download a released version from the GitHub releases page of pmatic.
To get the CCU addon you need to download the file named like pmatic-*_ccu.tar.gz.
If you feel adventurous and like to test the newest changes, you can download a snapshot CCU addon package from here. It is a snapshot package which is automatically built from the latest git version available. So please note that this is not as stable as a released version would be. But feel free to try and test it. Let me know if you experience any issues with it. Once there is a better version ready I’ll change these lines.
Once you downloaded the version of your choice, open up the Web Interface of the CCU in your browser and upload this file to your CCU using the regular addon upload form (In German: “Einstellungen / Systemsteuerung / Zusatzsoftware”) to install pmatic on it.
After the CCU has been restarted, pmatic should have been installed. You can now use the pmatic Manager, which can be opened from the addon menu you used before to install pmatic. Open this dialog again. You should see an entry for the pmatic addon and a link to the pmatic manager in the right column. If you click on it, the pmatic manager will be opened. Here you can see a list of example scripts which you can try to execute now.
If you like to stick to the command line instead, you can connect to your CCU via SSH and run this command to confirm pmatic has been installed correctly:
python -c 'import pmatic'
When the command completes silently (without ImportError exception) the
installation was successful.
The installation has been finished. You can now execute your own
python and pmatic scripts on your CCU. For some examples you can change
to /etc/config/addons/pmatic/scripts/examples and have a look at the source or
just try them.
Your own scripts should be placed in the directory /etc/config/addons/pmatic/scripts
or any directory below. This makes the scripts accessible through command line and
through the pmatic manager.
As I only have a CCU2, not a CCU, I don’t know whether or not pmatic is working on the CCU too. But I hope so. Please let me know if it is working or not.
Installation on your workstation¶
The easiest way is to use pip for installation. Simply execute
pip install --upgrade pmatic
If this does not work for you for some reason, you can install pmatic manually. This should
also be straight forward. First download pmatic by either downloading a released version from
the PyPI pmatic page or the
GitHub releases page of pmatic, the
current git snapshot or
by cloning the Git repository.
Then unpack it and change to the extracted directory pmatic-*. Then execute:
python setup.py install
After installation you can confirm pmatic has been installed by executing
python -c 'import pmatic'
When the command completes silently (without ImportError exception) the
installation was successful.
I developed and tested pmatic on a Debian 8 system with Python 2.7.9, but pmatic should work on other platforms meeting the pmatic requirements. It is also tested with all current Python 3 versions.
Please let me know or send me a pull request on GitHub if there are compatibility issues on a platform you would expect pmatic to work.