Manual installation instructions

If you can’t build python-openzwave using other instruction you can try to install it using this method.

Install the needed tools

You must install mercurial and subversion to get sources of python-openzwave and openzwave. Look at the documentation of your Linux distribution to do that.

On a debian like distribution :

sudo apt-get install mercurial subversion python-pip python-dev

You need cython (0.14) to compile the python library (libopenzwave.pyx). Some users have reported errors when using 0.16 or 0.17. Some 64 bits users reports segfault when using examples. Seems that using cython 0.15 was the problem. Gentoo users : don’t use cython that is shipped with your distribution.

Install it using pip.

sudo pip install cython==0.14

You also need some python modules, on a debian like distribution :

sudo apt-get install python-dev python-setuptools python-louie

You need sphinx and make to generate the documentation.

On a debian like distribution :

sudo apt-get install python-sphinx make

You also need to install some sphinx contributions :

sudo pip install sphinxcontrib-blockdiag sphinxcontrib-actdiag
sudo pip install sphinxcontrib-nwdiag sphinxcontrib-seqdiag

To compile the openzwave library, you need the common builds tools and the libudev developments headers.

On a debian like distribution :

sudo apt-get install build-essential libudev-dev g++

Get sources of python-openzwave and open-zwave

You are now ready to download sources of python-openzwave :

hg clone https://code.google.com/p/python-openzwave/

Go to the python-openzwave directory and grab the sources of openzwave

svn checkout http://open-zwave.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ openzwave

Build openzwave and python-openzwave

Go to the openzwave directory and build it :

cd openzwave/cpp/build/linux
make
cd ../../../..

Build python-openzwave

python setup-lib.py build
python setup-api.py build

And install them

sudo python setup-lib.py install
sudo python setup-api.py install