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-# The jsonread plugin
-
-This is a generic JSON to smarthome plugin. Fetch any JSON encoded
-data via http(s) or from a file, extract the interesting data and feed
-the values to smarthome items.
-
-It uses the lightweight and flexible JSON processor jq [https://stedolan.github.io/jq/]
-
-# Dependencies
-
-This plugin requires
-- requests
-- requests-file
-- pyjq
-
-# Configuration
-
-## Enable the plugin in etc/plugin.yaml
-
-You can add as many instances as you have JSON sources to process. Make sure to add a
-unique instance name to each instance if you configure more than on instance. That
-instance name will serve as a key to the item configuration further down.
-
-### Plugin specific attributes
-#### url
-
-The address of the json data. Currently http://, https:// and file:// schemes are supported.
-Note: using absolute file paths for the file:// schema yields in tripple forward slashes. This
-might look funny but it is not an error.
-
-#### cycle
-
-The repetitive polling interval in seconds. Defaults to 30 seconds.
-
-### Example
-
-The following examples uses openweathermap and it's sample API Key. Don't use this key for anything else
-but testing.  Examples were taken from
-[https://openweathermap.org/current].
-
-### http client
-
-    jsonread:
-      class_name: JSONREAD
-      class_path: plugins.jsonread
-      url: https://samples.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q=London,uk&appid=b6907d289e10d714a6e88b30761fae22
-      cycle: 30
-
-### file client
-
-    jsonread:
-      class_name: JSONREAD
-      class_path: plugins.jsonread
-      url: file:///path/to/data.json
-      cycle: 30
-
-### multi instance
-    jsonreadlon:
-      class_name: JSONREAD
-      class_path: plugins.jsonread
-      url: https://samples.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q=London,uk&appid=b6907d289e10d714a6e88b30761fae22
-      instance: london
-
-    jsonreadcair:
-      class_name: JSONREAD
-      class_path: plugins.jsonread
-      url: https://samples.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?id=2172797&appid=b6907d289e10d714a6e88b30761fae22
-      instance: cairns
-
-
-## item configuration in items/myitem.yaml
-This is the fun part. This is a sample item. Notice the special attribute jsonread_filter.
-
-### Single instance
-just use the jsonread_filter attribute
-
-    temperature:
-      type: num
-      jsonread_filter: .main.temp
-
-### Multi instance
-Use the jsonread_filter@instance attribute syntax
-
-    temperature:
-      london:
-        type: num
-        jsonread_filter@london: .main.temp
-      cairns:
-        type: num
-        jsonread_filter@cairns: .main.temp
-
-The value for the jsonread_filter attribute is a jq filter, passed directly to jq itself
-Use any kind of jq filter that suites your needs. Make sure your filter returns a single value.
-Jq filters can be tricky to develop for complex json structures. Getting them straight might be easier
-outside of smarthome by using the commandline version of jq and curl like this
-
-    curl https://json.server.org/data.json | jq '.object'
-
-Look at [https://stedolan.github.io/jq/tutorial/] to get startet with jq filters.
-
-# Example
-## Fetch data from a SolarWatt Energy Manager and MyReserve
-Note: this example uses the mutli-instance feature as it fetches data from two
-sources.
-
-### Sample input data
-#### BMSData.shtml
-This file gets generated by SolarWatt's receiveBLE.py process on their raspi. The interesting
-part looks like this:
-
-    {
-      "FData": {
-        "IPV": 5.17,
-        "VBat": 170.1,
-        "VPV": 418.5,
-        "PGrid": 18,
-        "IBat": -9.91
-      },
-      "SData": {
-        "ACS": {
-          "U_L2": 239,
-          "f": 49.98
-        },
-        "SoC": 10
-      }
-    }
-
-#### energy-manager json data
-The energy manager produces a fairly huge JSON dataset, more than 4500 lines on my system.
-This is an example, stripped down to what we use in this document
-
-    {
-      "result": {
-        "items": [
-          {
-            "guid": "urn:your-inverter-guid",
-            "tagValues": {
-              "PowerACOut": {
-                "value": 2419,
-                "tagName": "PowerACOut"
-              }
-            }
-          }
-        ]
-      }
-    }
-
-### etc/plugin.yaml
-
-    swem:
-      class_name: JSONREAD
-      class_path: plugins.jsonread
-      # Replace with the ip address or hostname of your energy-manager
-      url: http://192.168.x.y/rest/kiwigrid/wizard/devices
-      instance: swem
-      cycle: 30
-
-    myreserve:
-      class_name: JSONREAD
-      class_path: plugins.jsonread
-      # Replace with the path to your BMSData-file
-      url: file:///tmp/BMSData.shtml
-      instance: myreserve
-      cycle: 10
-
-
-### items/myenergy.yaml
-
-Get the batteries voltage, charge current and charge power.
-
-    battery:
-      u:
-        # note: we are fetching from the 'myreserve' plugin instance
-        # easy: get attribute VBat of the FData object
-        type: num
-        jsonread_filter@myreserve: .FData.VBat
-      i:
-        # easy: get attribute IBat of the FData object
-        type: num
-        jsonread_filter@myreserve: .FData.IBat
-      power:
-        # doing simple math is also straightforward
-        type: num
-        jsonread_filter@myreserve: (.FData.VBat * .FData.IBat * -1)
-
-Get the current inverter AC out power
-
-    inverter:
-      type: num
-      # note: we are fetching from the 'swem' plugin instance
-      # from the items array in the result object, fetch the object where the guid matches our given guid
-      # from the resulting object, walk down the tree and fetch the "value" attribute
-      jsonread_filter@swem: (.result.items[] | select(.guid == "urn:your-inverter-guid").tagValues.PowerACOut.value)
-      # all standard attributes work as expected
-      visu_acl: r
-      sqlite: yes
-
-Compute the grid power, use yaml's block style feature (https://yaml-multiline.info/) to wrap long lines
-
-    grid:
-      type: num
-      jsonread_filter@swem: >
-        (.result.items[] |
-          select(.deviceModel[].deviceClass == "com.kiwigrid.devices.solarwatt.MyReservePowermeter").tagValues.PowerOut.value) -
-        (.result.items[] |
-          select(.deviceModel[].deviceClass == "com.kiwigrid.devices.solarwatt.MyReservePowermeter").tagValues.PowerIn.value)
-
-# Disclaimer and License
-This document and the jsonread plugin for smarthome.py is free software:
-you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the
-GNU General Public License as published by
-the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
-(at your option) any later version.
-
-smjq is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-GNU General Public License for more details.
-
-You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-along with jsonread. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
diff --git a/jsonread/__init__.py b/jsonread/__init__.py
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-#!/usr/bin/env python3
-#
-#########################################################################
-#  Copyright 2019 Torsten Dreyer torsten (at) t3r (dot) de
-#  Version 1.0.0
-#########################################################################
-#
-#  This file is part of SmartHomeNG.
-#
-#  SmartHomeNG is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-#  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-#  the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
-#  (at your option) any later version.
-#
-#  SmartHomeNG is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-#  GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-#  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-#  along with SmartHomeNG. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-#
-#########################################################################
-
-import logging
-import requests
-from requests_file import FileAdapter
-import pyjq
-from lib.model.smartplugin import SmartPlugin
-
-
-class JSONREAD(SmartPlugin):
-    ALLOW_MULTIINSTANCE = True
-    PLUGIN_VERSION = "1.0.0"
-
-    def __init__(self, sh, *args, **kwargs):
-        """
-        Initializes the plugin
-        @param url: URL of the json data to fetch
-        @param cycle: the polling interval in seconds
-        """
-        self.logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
-        self._url = self.get_parameter_value('url')
-        self._cycle = self.get_parameter_value('cycle')
-        self._session = requests.Session()
-        self._session.mount('file://', FileAdapter())
-        self._items = {}
-
-    def run(self):
-        self.alive = True
-        self.scheduler_add(__name__, self.poll_device, cycle=self._cycle)
-
-    def stop(self):
-        self.scheduler_remove(__name__ )
-        self.alive = False
-
-    def parse_item(self, item):
-        if self.has_iattr(item.conf, 'jsonread_filter'):
-            self._items[item] = self.get_iattr_value(item.conf, 'jsonread_filter')
-
-    def poll_device(self):
-        try:
-            response = self._session.get(self._url)
-
-        except Exception as ex:
-            self.logger.error("Exception when sending GET request for {}: {}".format(self._url,str(ex)))
-            return
-
-        if response.status_code != 200:
-            self.logger.error("Bad response code from GET '{}': {}".format(self._url, response.status_code))
-            return
-
-        try:
-            json_obj = response.json()
-        except Exception as ex:
-            self.logger.error("Response from '{}' doesn't look like json '{}'".format(self._url, str(response.content)[:30]))
-            return
-
-        for k in self._items.keys():
-            try:
-                jqres = pyjq.first(self._items[k], json_obj)
-
-            except Exception as ex:
-                self.logger.error("jq filter failed: {}'".format(str(ex)))
-                continue
-
-            k(jqres)
-
diff --git a/jsonread/plugin.yaml b/jsonread/plugin.yaml
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-# Metadata for the Smart-Plugin
-plugin:
-    # Global plugin attributes
-    type: interface               # plugin type (gateway, interface, protocol, system, web)
-    description:
-        de: 'json parser plugin basierend auf jq'
-        en: 'json parser plugin based on jq'
-    maintainer: Torsten Dreyer
-    tester: none (yet)
-    keywords: json
-    documentation: http://smarthomeng.de/user/plugins_doc/config/not-yet.html
-    support: https://knx-user-forum.de/forum/supportforen/smarthome-py/not-yet
-
-    version: 1.0.0                 # Plugin version
-    sh_minversion: 1.4             # minimum shNG version to use this plugin
-#    sh_maxversion:                 # maximum shNG version to use this plugin (leave empty if latest)
-    multi_instance: True          # plugin supports multi instance
-    classname: JSONREAD             # class containing the plugin
-
-parameters:
-    # Definition of parameters to be configured in etc/plugin.yaml
-    url:
-        type: str
-        mandatory: True
-        description:
-            de: 'URL der json Eingabe-Daten (z.B. http://foo.bar/input.json oder file:///pfad/zu/data.json)'
-            en: 'URL of the json input (e.g. http://foo.bar/input.json or file:///path/to/data.json)'
-    cycle:
-        type: int
-        mandatory: False
-        default: 30
-        valid_min: 0
-        description:
-            de: 'Das Abfrage-Intervall für die gegebene URL in Sekunden'
-            en: 'The polling interval for the given url in seconds'
-
-
-item_attributes:
-    # Definition of item attributes defined by this plugin
-    jsonread_filter:
-        type: str
-    
diff --git a/jsonread/requirements.txt b/jsonread/requirements.txt
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-requests-file
-pyjq