Python client interface to the ADT Pulse security system.
This is an unsupported interface provided only as a basis for others to explore integrating their ADT system wtih their own tools.
While two or three Python clients to ADT Pulse existed, they generally only provided arm/disarm support and none provided support for ADT Pulse when multiple sites existed under a single account. This attempts to provide APIs to both all the zones (motion sensors, door sensors, etc) as well as arming and disarming individual sites.
NOTE: Since this interacts with the unofficial ADT Pulse AJAX web service, the behavior is subject to change by ADT without notice.
Do not reauthenticate to the ADT service frequently as ADT's service is not designed for high volume requests. E.g. every 5 minutes, not seconds. Keep your authenticated session to avoid logging in repeatedly.
pip3 install pyadtpulse
Since ADT Pulse automatically logs out other sessions accessing the same account, a best practice is to create a new username/password combination for each client accessing ADT Pulse.
Additionally, since pyadtpulse currently does not support multiple sites (premises/locations), a simple approach is to create a separate username/password for each site and configured such that the username only has access to ONE site. This ensures that clients are always interacting with that one site (and not accidentally with another site location).
- any changes to the name/count of sites are not automatically updated for existing site objects
adt = PyADTPulse(username, password)
for site in adt.sites:
site.status
site.zones
site.disarm()
site.arm_away()See example-client.py for a working example.
- ADT Pulse Portal
- Home Assistant ADT Pulse integration
- adt-pulse-mqtt – MQTT integration with ADT Pulse alarm panels
Feature ideas, but no plans to implement:
- support OFFLINE status checking
- support multiple sites (premises/locations) under a single ADT account
- implement lightweight status pings to check if cache needs to be invalidated (every 5 seconds) (https://portal.adtpulse.com/myhome/16.0.0-131/Ajax/SyncCheckServ?t=1568950496392)
- alarm history (/ajax/alarmHistory.jsp)