Ryan Malloy
7b4052624c
docs/JOURNEY.md — replaced the placeholder 'What's next' section with
seven new chronological entries covering everything that happened after
the panel-search comedy:
- HA rebuild Phase A: poll-vs-push decision, pure-function helpers
extraction, 61 unit tests with no HA imports
- HA Phase B: the six new entity platforms, the Omni state-byte
overload, security-mode-to-alarm-state mapping, the scene-platform
skip decision
- HA Phase C: services + diagnostics + repairs flow
- 'wait, did we mock enough?' — catching the missing Thermostat
(6) and Button (3) RequestProperties handlers BEFORE the HA
harness ever touched the mock
- HA test harness rough patches: requires-python conflict, pytest_socket
fight, the CONF_ENTRY_ID-doesn't-exist-in-HA find, teardown hang
fixed by converting configured_panel into a generator
- Docker dev stack: mounting only src/ to dodge the read-only-venv
problem with uv
- Automated onboarding + screenshots: the auth_code OAuth dance, the
template-endpoint device-id trick, playwright auto-injection of
hassTokens, the discovery-during-onboarding nice surprise
Plus appended five new entries to 'Things worth remembering':
- Pure functions are the cheapest thing in test suites
- Mocking the entire protocol counterpart catches whole categories
- pytest_socket + real network can coexist
- The 'build without a real device' loop is unreasonably effective
- (existing entries kept verbatim)
Final length: ~6800 words, 27 dated sections plus the lessons list.
CHANGELOG.md — new file. Single 2026.5.10 entry under Keep-a-Changelog-
ish format, broken into seven sections matching the project layers:
Protocol layer (RE findings), Library, Home Assistant integration,
Tests, Developer tooling, Documentation, Known gaps. Cites the source
line numbers for the two non-public protocol quirks. Lists every
public module + every entity platform. Linked to git tag template at
the bottom (release not pushed yet).
Tests still 351 + 1 skip. No code changed.
omni-pca
Async Python client for HAI/Leviton Omni-Link II home automation panels — Omni Pro II, Omni IIe, Omni LTe, Lumina.
Includes a Home Assistant custom component (custom_components/omni_pca/).
Status
Alpha. Built from a full reverse-engineering of HAI's PC Access 3.17 (the Windows installer/programmer app). The protocol layer captures two non-public quirks that public Omni-Link clients miss:
- Session key is not the ControllerKey. Last 5 bytes are XORed with a controller-supplied SessionID nonce.
- Per-block XOR pre-whitening before AES. First two bytes of every 16-byte block are XORed with the packet's sequence number.
See docs/PROTOCOL.md for the full byte-level spec.
Quick start (library)
uv add omni-pca
import asyncio
from omni_pca import OmniClient
async def main():
async with OmniClient(
host="192.168.1.9",
port=4369,
controller_key=bytes.fromhex("6ba7b4e9b4656de3cd7edd4c650cdb09"),
) as panel:
info = await panel.get_system_info()
print(info.model_name, info.firmware_version)
asyncio.run(main())
Quick start (Home Assistant)
Copy custom_components/omni_pca/ into your HA config/custom_components/, restart HA, then add the integration via Settings → Devices & Services. You'll need:
- Panel IP / hostname
- TCP port (default 4369)
- ControllerKey as 32 hex chars
Get the ControllerKey from your .pca file using the included parser:
uvx --from omni-pca omni-pca decode-pca path/to/Your.pca --field controller_key
The integration creates one HA device per panel plus typed entities for every named object on the controller: alarm_control_panel for areas, light for units, binary_sensor/switch for zones (state + bypass), climate for thermostats, sensor for analog zones and panel telemetry, button for panel macros, and event for the typed push-notification stream. See custom_components/omni_pca/README.md for the entity table and service list.
Without a panel — mock controller
For testing, the library ships a minimal Omni controller emulator:
from omni_pca.mock_panel import MockPanel
async with MockPanel(controller_key=...).serve(port=14369):
# connect a real OmniClient to localhost:14369 — works end-to-end
...
Versioning
Date-based (CalVer): YYYY.M.D. Bumped on backwards-incompatible changes.
Acknowledgments
This client is independent and not affiliated with Leviton or HAI. Protocol details derived from clean-room analysis of the publicly-distributed PC Access installer.