PowerSpyCli

PowerSpyCli is a tool to connect and collect power metrics from a PowerSpy 2 powermeter.

PowerSpyCli is tested on GNU/Linux and works with Python 3.

Installation

• To run PowerSpyCli, you need to install bluez and python-bluez.

On Debian/Ubuntu: apt install bluez python-bluez. On Arch-based distros: install bluez and python-pybluez.

On recent distributions, pybluez is not available in the repositories anymore (the development of pybluez stopped). You can still download and install the latest version with pip directly from their git repository: pip install git+https://github.com/pybluez/pybluez.git#egg=pybluez

• Then clone the repo (or just download the powerspycli.py file), and run it.

With Python >= 3.10

PowerSpyCli depends on PyBluez and is has problems running on Python >= 3.10.

As a workaround, you can run the tool with Python 3.9. For instance, using a different Python distribution such as Anaconda or Miniconda.

Instlal libbluetooth-dev or bluez-libs-devel, then run the following commands (replace with the proper path of miniconda):

/opt/miniconda/bin/conda init
conda create --name python39 python==3.9
conda activate python39
pip install setuptools==57.5.0
pip install pybluez

Then run PowerSpyCli from this distribution of Python.

Installing on SailfishOS

On the Linux-based mobile OS, SailfishOS, you can run PowerSpyCli by installing the following packages:

devel-su zypper install bluez5-libs-devel make gcc glib2-devel
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install wheel
pip install pybluez

Running PowerSpyCli

To run PowerSpyCli and start collecting power metrics, just run the python file: python powerspycli.py or directly ./powerspycli.py.

The tool requires the bluetooth device address of the PowerSpy in order to run: ./powerspycli.py 00:11:22:33:44:55.

Arguments

PowerSpyCli, by default, will display the power consumption of the PowerSpy every second. To show all the collected metrics (i.e., voltage, ampere, etc.), run it with the -a argument.

The -v argument will display all the logs and connection info (verbose mode).

To save the power data along with the timestamp to a CSV file, use the -f argument: ./powerspycli.py 00:11:22:33:44:55 -f file.csv.

License

PowerSpyCli is forked from: https://github.com/patrickmarlier/powerspy.py/ with support for Python 3 and additional updates.

It is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 or later (LGPL-3.0-or-later).

Copyright (c) 2021, Adel Noureddine, Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour. All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 or later (LGPL-3.0-or-later) which accompanies this distribution, and is available at: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-3.0.en.html