Xbox-Smartglass-Core

This library provides the core foundation for the smartglass protocol that is used with the Xbox One Gaming console

For in-depth information, check out the documentation: https://openxbox.org/smartglass-documentation

NOTE: Since 29.02.2020 the following modules are integrated into core: stump, auxiliary, rest-server NOTE: Nano module is still offered seperately

Features

• Power on / off the console
• Get system info (running App/Game/Title, dashboard version)
• Media player control (seeing content id, content app, playback actions etc.)
• Stump protocol (Live-TV Streaming / IR control)
• Title / Auxiliary stream protocol (f.e. Fallout 4 companion app)
• Trigger GameDVR remotely
• REST Server

Major frameworks used

• Xbox WebAPI https://github.com/OpenXbox/xbox-webapi-python
• construct - Binary parsing https://construct.readthedocs.io/
• cryptography - cryptography magic https://cryptography.io/en/stable/
• dpkt - pcap parsing https://dpkt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
• FastAPI - REST API https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi
• urwid - TUI app https://github.com/urwid/urwid
• pydantic - JSON models https://github.com/samuelcolvin/pydantic

Install

Via pip

pip install xbox-smartglass-core

See the end of this README for development-targeted instructions.

How to use

There are several command line utilities to check out::

xbox-cli

Some functionality, such as GameDVR record, requires authentication with your Microsoft Account to validate you have the right to trigger such action.

To authenticate / get authentication tokens use::

xbox-authenticate

REST server

Start the server daemon

Usage information

Example localhost:

# Serve on '127.0.0.1:5557'
$ xbox-rest-server
INFO:     Started server process [927195]
INFO:     Waiting for application startup.
INFO:     Application startup complete.
INFO:     Uvicorn running on http://127.0.0.1:5557 (Press CTRL+C to quit)

Example local network:

192.168.0.100 is the IP address of your computer running the server:

xbox-rest-server --host 192.168.0.100 -p 1234
INFO:     Started server process [927195]
INFO:     Waiting for application startup.
INFO:     Application startup complete.
INFO:     Uvicorn running on http://192.168.0.100:1234 (Press CTRL+C to quit)

REST API

Since the migration from Flask framework to FastAPI, there is a nice OpenAPI documentation available:

http://{IPAddress}:{port}/docs

Authentication

If your server runs on something else than 127.0.0.1:5557 or 127.0.0.1:8080 you need to register your own OAUTH application on Azure AD and supply appropriate parameters to the login-endpoint of the REST server.

Check out: https://github.com/OpenXbox/xbox-webapi-python/blob/master/README.md

Fallout 4 relay service

To forward the title communication from the Xbox to your local host to use third-party Fallout 4 Pip boy applications or extensions

xbox-fo4-relay

Screenshots

Here you can see the SmartGlass TUI (Text user interface):

Development workflow

Ready to contribute? Here's how to set up xbox-smartglass-core-python for local development.

1. Fork the xbox-smartglass-core-python repo on GitHub.
2. Clone your fork locally

git clone git@github.com:your_name_here/xbox-smartglass-core-python.git

3. Install your local copy into a virtual environment. This is how you set up your fork for local development

python -m venv ~/pyvenv/xbox-smartglass
source ~/pyvenv/xbox-smartglass/bin/activate
cd xbox-smartglass-core-python
pip install -e .[dev]

5. Create a branch for local development::

git checkout -b name-of-your-bugfix-or-feature

6. Make your changes.

7. Before pushing the changes to git, please verify they actually work

pytest

8. Commit your changes and push your branch to GitHub::

git commit -m "Your detailed description of your changes."
git push origin name-of-your-bugfix-or-feature

9. Submit a pull request through the GitHub website.

Pull Request Guidelines

Before you submit a pull request, check that it meets these guidelines:

1. Code includes unit-tests.
2. Added code is properly named and documented.
3. On major changes the README is updated.
4. Run tests / linting locally before pushing to remote.

Credits

Kudos to joelday for figuring out the AuxiliaryStream / TitleChannel communication first! You can find the original implementation here: SmartGlass.CSharp

This package uses parts of Cookiecutter and the audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage project template