Using API

[chrisoutwright]

Could you explain how the API could be used, after creating an HttpCam instance?

The methods implement asyncio, how should one proceed? I tried this guide, but to no avail.

Either I get cannot 'yield from' a coroutine object in a non-coroutine generator or <_GatheringFuture pending>. When calling the method itself, I get a <coroutine object Wansview.async_get_night_mode at ...> but I fail to be able to close it and display the message I should get from the called method.

Would this work?

loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
tasks = [asyncio.ensure_future(cam.async_set_night_mode("auto"))]
loop.run_until_complete(asyncio.wait(tasks))

How does one call these methods correctly, I've never used asyncio before and can't figure it out how to use it in this case. Thank you.

[HelpfulScripts]

I wrote the library to connect some cameras I have to home-assistant. There, the library integrates quite nicely. E.g. I can override the async_camera_image method of the core Camera class and hand the call through to the libhttpcam as follows (self._cam holds a reference to the HttpCam instance):

    async def async_camera_image(self):
        """Return bytes of camera image."""
        (code, result) = await self._cam.async_snap_picture()
        return result

Of course, home-assistant handles the async part here, so that doesn't quite address your question on how to deal with the async errors.
I use the async/await patterns quite regularly in ECMAScript; unfortunately I don't have a deep familiarity with the equivalent Python mechanisms. Judging from the error you get, could it be that you expect a message back, where the async method is in fact returning a Future (or Promise in ECMAScript)?