BrewPiUtil.py

# Copyright 2013 BrewPi
# This file is part of BrewPi.

# BrewPi 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.

# BrewPi 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 BrewPi.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

from __future__ import print_function
import time
import sys
import os
import serial
import autoSerial

try:
    import configobj
except ImportError:
    print("BrewPi requires ConfigObj to run, please install it with 'sudo apt-get install python-configobj")
    sys.exit(1)


def addSlash(path):
    """
    Adds a slash to the path, but only when it does not already have a slash at the end
    Params: a string
    Returns: a string
    """
    if not path.endswith('/'):
        path += '/'
    return path


def readCfgWithDefaults(cfg):
    """
    Reads a config file with the default config file as fallback

    Params:
    cfg: string, path to cfg file
    defaultCfg: string, path to defaultConfig file.

    Returns:
    ConfigObj of settings
    """
    if not cfg:
        cfg = addSlash(sys.path[0]) + 'settings/config.cfg'

    defaultCfg = scriptPath() + '/settings/defaults.cfg'
    config = configobj.ConfigObj(defaultCfg)

    if cfg:
        try:
            userConfig = configobj.ConfigObj(cfg)
            config.merge(userConfig)
        except configobj.ParseError:
            logMessage("ERROR: Could not parse user config file %s" % cfg)
        except IOError:
            logMessage("Could not open user config file %s. Using only default config file" % cfg)
    return config


def configSet(configFile, settingName, value):
    if not os.path.isfile(configFile):
        logMessage("User config file %s does not exist yet, creating it..." % configFile)
    try:
        config = configobj.ConfigObj(configFile)
        config[settingName] = value
        config.write()
    except IOError as e:
        logMessage("I/O error(%d) while updating %s: %s " % (e.errno, configFile, e.strerror))
        logMessage("Probably your permissions are not set correctly. " +
                   "To fix this, run 'sudo sh /home/brewpi/fixPermissions.sh'")
    return readCfgWithDefaults(configFile)  # return updated ConfigObj

def printStdErr(*objs):
    print("", *objs, file=sys.stderr)

def logMessage(message):
    """
    Prints a timestamped message to stderr
    """
    printStdErr(time.strftime("%b %d %Y %H:%M:%S   ") + message)


def scriptPath():
    """
    Return the path of BrewPiUtil.py. __file__ only works in modules, not in the main script.
    That is why this function is needed.
    """
    return os.path.dirname(__file__)


def removeDontRunFile(path='/var/www/do_not_run_brewpi'):
    if os.path.isfile(path):
        os.remove(path)
        if not sys.platform.startswith('win'):  # cron not available
            print("BrewPi script will restart automatically.")
    else:
        print("File do_not_run_brewpi does not exist at " + path)


def setupSerial(config, baud_rate=57600, time_out=0.1):
    ser = None

    # open serial port
    tries = 0
    logMessage("Opening serial port")
    while tries < 10:
        error = ""
        for portSetting in [config['port'], config['altport']]:
            if portSetting == None or portSetting == 'None' or portSetting == "none":
                continue  # skip None setting
            port = autoSerial.find_port(portSetting)
            if not port:
                error = "Could not find compatible serial devices \n"
                continue # continue with altport
            try:
                ser = serial.serial_for_url(port['device'], baudrate=baud_rate, timeout=time_out, write_timeout=0)
                if ser:
                    break
            except (IOError, OSError, serial.SerialException) as e:
                # error += '0}.\n({1})'.format(portSetting, str(e))
                error += str(e) + '\n'
        if ser:
            break
        tries += 1
        time.sleep(1)

    if ser:
        # discard everything in serial buffers
        ser.flushInput()
        ser.flushOutput()
    else:
         logMessage("Errors while opening serial port: \n" + error)

    return ser


# remove extended ascii characters from string, because they can raise UnicodeDecodeError later
def asciiToUnicode(s):
    s = s.replace(chr(0xB0), '&deg')
    return unicode(s, 'ascii', 'ignore')