PYAARLO(1)

💖 PYAARLO(1) — the pyaarlo era 💖

General Commands Manual ✨ okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, we're learning pyaarlo 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

pyaarlo — list devices, do little actions, and anonymize/encrypt logs for debugging 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

pyaarlo [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

pyaarlo is a Python module for managing Aarlo cameras. The pyaarlo executable is the lil' hands-on part that does simple actions for you. 💖

Heads up: this manual page is for the pyaarlo executable specifically. If you want more docs, go peek at the "SEE ALSO" section down at the bottom, bestie. 🌈

🎀 COMMANDS 🎀

You can get help that's specific to any single command by running pyaarlo COMMAND --help. The way that's so convenient fr fr 😌

• anonymize — anonymize and encrypt logs for debugging purposes. For example:

cat output-file | pyaarlo -u username -p password anonymize

• camera — start or stop the camera, or take thumbnails. Needs an argument from {start-stream|stop-stream|last-thumbnail}. For example:

pyaarlo -u username -p password camera last-thumbnail

• decrypt — decrypt from stdin. For example:

cat encrypted | pyaarlo decrypt

• dump — print out everything that came back from Arlo about the devices in your system. For example:

pyaarlo dump all

• encrypt — encrypt from stdin. For example:

cat output-file | pyaarlo encrypt

• list — needs an argument from {all|cameras|bases|lights|doorbells}. For example:

pyaarlo -u username -p password list all

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -u, --username TEXT — your Aarlo username. 🌸
• -p, --password TEXT — your Aarlo password. 🤫
• -a, --anonymize / --no-anonymize — anonymize ids. 🕵️
• -c, --compact / --no-compact — minimize lists. ✨
• -e, --encrypt / --no-encrypt — where possible, encrypt output. 🔐
• -k, --public-key TEXT — public key for encryption. 🗝️
• -K, --private-key TEXT — private key for decryption. 🔑
• -P, --pass-phrase TEXT — pass phrase for the private key. 💬
• -s, --storage-dir TEXT. — where to store Aarlo state and the packet dump [default: (current dir)] 📁
• -w, --wait / --no-wait. — wait for all information to arrive on start-up. ⏳
• -v, --verbose. — more vebose with multiple -v. 🗣️
• --help. — show help message and exit. 🫶

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

This manual page was written by Carles Pina i Estany <carles@pina.cat> for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. 📜✨

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Go read the Pyaarlo documentation at <https://pyaarlo.readthedocs.io/en/latest/> — or if you're offline, it's available locally in:

• /usr/share/doc/python3-pyaarlo/README.md.gz
• /usr/share/doc/python3-pyaarlo/html/
• /usr/share/doc/python3-pyaarlo/examples/

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and that's the whole page bestie, no cap 💅 this was page PYAARLO(1) from the General Commands Manual — go forth, list your devices, take those thumbnails, and stay iconic 👑✨