G4-Doorbell-Custom-Chime

Checks for custom chime on UniFi Protect G4 Doorbell and uploads it if it doesn't exist. Written in Python

Requirements

• The Netmiko network automation library
  • pyhthon3 pip install netmiko
  • Utilizes the ConnectHandler class for SSH connections
• .WAV file with the following specifications (Audacity can do all of this):
  • Specs:
    • Mono
    • 44100 Hz
    • 16 bit
  • Good idea to:
    • Normalize the audio
      • Effect > Normalize
        • Default settings
    • Add a limiter to the audio
      • Effect > Limiter
        • Default settings

General Usage

This script can be run without command-line arguments by just running pythonScript.py, but does accept arguments. You can use pythonScript.py -h or pythonScript.py --help to get a list of acceptable command-line options for use in automation tasks.

Current acceptable flags and arguments supported are:

• -a, --Address
  • IP Address of doorbell to connect to
• -u, --Username
  • Username to authenticate with (Default: ubnt)
• -p, --Password
  • Password to authenticate with
• -f, --File
  • WAV file to upload to doorbell, specifications can be found in Requirements
• -r, --Reset
  • Reset doorbell chime settings back to default

The -r or --Reset flag can be given to reset

Tl;dr

Each script uses argparse to accept command-line arguments. If you don't give it arguments, you can just run the script and it will prompt you for the required variables.