Documentation
This section covers general parts of pyatv, like how to install it, concepts and terminology to
understand how it works. More or less everything that is not how you develop with it.
Before diving into code, make sure you read and understand the Concepts first.
Installing pyatv
It is recommended to install pyatv in a virtual environment rather than
system-wide. To create a new virtual environment:
python3 -m venv pyatv_venv
source pyatv_venv/bin/activate
This creates a virtual environment in a directory called pyatv_venv. The
second command activates the virtual environment and must be done every
time a new shell is started.
You might need some additional packages to compile the dependencies. On a debian based system (e.g. Debian itself or Ubuntu), you can just run:
sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev libffi-dev python-dev
Now you can continue by installing the version of pyatv you want.
Latest Stable Version
Install pyatv using pip3:
pip3 install pyatv
Development Version
To try out the latest development version (a.k.a. master on GitHub), you can install with:
pip3 install --upgrade git+https://github.com/postlund/pyatv.git
Specific Branch or a Pull Request
To install from a branch, you can install like this:
pip3 install --upgrade git+https://github.com/postlund/pyatv.git@refs/heads/<branch>
Replace <branch> with the name of the branch.
It is also possible to install directly from a pull request:
pip3 install git+https://github.com/postlund/pyatv.git@refs/pull/<id>/head
Replace <id> with the pull request number.
Dependencies
To get the work done, pyatv requires some other pieces of software, more specifically:
- python >= 3.6.0
- aiohttp >= 3.1.0, <5
- aiozeroconf >= 0.1.8
- cryptography >= 2.6
- netifaces >= 0.10.0
- protobuf >= 3.6.0
- srptools >= 0.2.0
You also need to have OpenSSL compiled with support for ed25519 in order to connect to MRP devices.
Milestones
Current milestones are available on GitHub: