DeviMote

Unofficial remote control for Devialet Expert (non-Pro) amplifiers written in Python.

The amplifier is controlled over UDP on the local network. There is no official API — the protocol was reverse-engineered with Wireshark. "Non-Pro" means hardware from before the Core Infinity board.

This repository provides two things:

• pydevialet_expert_nonpro — a small, dependency-free Python library implementing the UDP protocol. This is the publishable artifact, installable from PyPI and reusable by any application (CLIs, GUIs, Home Assistant, …).
• A Kivy GUI (gui/devimote.py) — the original graphical remote, now a thin consumer of the library. It is a standalone script and is not part of the published package.

Library

pip install pydevialet-expert-nonpro

from pydevialet_expert_nonpro import DeviMoteBackEnd

amp = DeviMoteBackEnd()             # or DeviMoteBackEnd(host="mydevialet.local")
status = amp.update()              # receive and decode one status broadcast
print(status["dev_name"], status["volume"])

amp.set_volume(-20.0)              # volume in dB (clamped at -10 dB)
amp.toggle_mute()
amp.toggle_power()
amp.set_output(2)                  # select input by channel index

update() returns the status dictionary (dev_name, ip, ch_list, power, muted, channel, volume, connected, crc_ok). DevialetExpertNonPro is available as an alias of DeviMoteBackEnd.

All calls are blocking; run them on a worker thread if you need async behaviour.

GUI

The Kivy GUI is a standalone script. Install the project with the gui extra and run it:

pip install -e ".[gui]"
python gui/devimote.py

Note

the Kivy 2.3.1 dependency does not install with Python 3.14. If you want to test/use the GUI, you must use Python 3.13 or earlier.

Development

pip install -e ".[dev,gui]"
pytest                                         # unit tests (no amplifier needed)
pylint src/pydevialet_expert_nonpro tests gui  # must stay at 10.00/10
reuse lint                                     # licensing compliance