pynest

I created this python Nest Thermostat api after looking at others that were around, and not really liking them. I learned a lot by reading several other nest APIs for both python and php.

#What is it? This is a simple api to connect to a nest Thermostat. In order to use it, you will need a nest thermostat, and an account at nest.com.

#How do I use it? Once you have the pynest.py file, you can connect to the site like this:

myNest = pynest.Nest("myusername","mypassword")

To list the structures or houses that you have attached to your account (most people probably have only one, but I needed to account for many):

myHouses = myNest.list_structures()
print myHouses

Will gve you: {u'Some GUID Here':u'Name assigned to this structure'}

Then you can get the thermostats that are in that structure:

therms = myNest.list_thermostats('Some GUID Here')

Where the Guid is the ID that is returned as the key in the dictionary returned by list_structures.

Then you can get a temperature for a thermostat by passing an ID that comes in from the list that is now in therms:

print myNest.get_temp('device id')

You can add an optional argument to get_temp called units to specify C or F, by default the temperature is in degrees C.

#What did I read?

• https://github.com/gboudreau/nest-api
• https://github.com/ablyler/nest-php-api
• https://github.com/smbaker/pynest

All I really wanted was an API, so feel free to use it, let me know if you do!