Manage Your Fleet with Viam's Fleet Management API

The fleet management API allows you to manage your machine fleet with code instead of with the graphical interface of the Viam app. With it you can

  • create and manage organizations, locations, and individual machines
  • manage permissions and authorization
  • create and manage fragments

The fleet management API supports the following methods:

Method NameDescription
GetUserIDByEmailGet the ID of a user by email.
CreateOrganizationCreate an organization.
ListOrganizationsList the organizations the user is an authorized user of.
GetOrganizationsWithAccessToLocationGet all organizations that have access to a location.
ListOrganizationsByUserList the organizations a user belongs to.
GetOrganizationRetrieve the organization object for the requested organization containing the organization’s ID, name, public namespace, and more.
GetOrganizationNamespaceAvailabilityCheck the availability of an organization namespace.
UpdateOrganizationUpdates organization details.
DeleteOrganizationDelete an organization.
ListOrganizationMembersList the members and invites of the organization that you are currently authenticated to.
CreateOrganizationInviteCreate an organization invite and send it by email.
UpdateOrganizationInviteAuthorizationsUpdate (add or remove) the authorizations attached to an organization invite that has already been created.
DeleteOrganizationMemberRemove a member from the organization you are currently authenticated to.
DeleteOrganizationInviteDelete a pending organization invite to the organization you are currently authenticated to.
ResendOrganizationInviteResend a pending organization invite email.
CreateLocationCreate and name a location under the organization you are currently authenticated to.
GetLocationGet a location by its location ID.
UpdateLocationChange the name of a parent location and/or assign it a new location.
DeleteLocationDelete a location.
ListLocationsGet a list of all locations under the organization you are currently authenticated to.
ShareLocationShare a location with an organization.
UnshareLocationStop sharing a location with an organization.
LocationAuthGet a location’s LocationAuth (location secret or secrets).
CreateLocationSecretCreate a new location secret.
DeleteLocationSecretDelete a location secret.
GetRobotGet a machine by its ID.
GetRobotAPIKeysGets the API keys for the machine.
GetRobotPartsGet a list of all the parts under a specific machine.
GetRobotPartGet a specific machine part.
GetRobotPartLogsGet the logs associated with a specific machine part.
TailRobotPartLogsGet an asynchronous iterator that receives live machine part logs.
GetRobotPartHistoryGet a list containing the history of a machine part.
UpdateRobotPartChange the name of and assign an optional new configuration to a machine part.
NewRobotPartCreate a new machine part.
DeleteRobotPartDelete the specified machine part.
MarkPartAsMainMark a machine part as the main part of a machine.
MarkPartForRestartMark a specified machine part for restart.
CreateRobotPartSecretCreate a machine part secret.
DeleteRobotPartSecretDelete a machine part secret.
ListRobotsGet a list of all machines in a specified location.
NewRobotCreate a new machine.
UpdateRobotChange the name of an existing machine.
DeleteRobotDelete a specified machine.
ListFragmentsGet a list of fragments in the organization you are currently authenticated to.
GetFragmentGet a fragment by ID.
CreateFragmentCreate a new private fragment.
UpdateFragmentUpdate a fragment name and its config and/or visibility.
DeleteFragmentDelete a fragment.
GetFragmentHistoryGet fragment history.
AddRoleAdd a role under the organization you are currently authenticated to.
RemoveRoleRemove a role under the organization you are currently authenticated to.
ChangeRoleChanges an existing role to a new role.
ListAuthorizationsList all authorizations (owners and operators) of a specific resource (or resources) within the organization you are currently authenticated to.
CheckPermissionsCheck if the organization, location, or robot your ViamClient is authenticated to is permitted to perform some action or set of actions on the resource you pass to the method.
GetRegistryItemGet registry item by ID.
CreateRegistryItemCreate a registry item.
UpdateRegistryItemUpdate a registry item.
ListRegistryItemsList the registry items in an organization.
DeleteRegistryItemDelete a registry item.
CreateModuleCreate a module under the organization you are currently authenticated to.
UpdateModuleUpdate the documentation URL, description, models, entrypoint, and/or the visibility of a module.
UploadModuleFileUpload a module file.
GetModuleGet a module by its ID.
ListModulesList the modules under the organization you are currently authenticated to.
CreateKeyCreate a new API key.
DeleteKeyDelete an API key.
RotateKeyRotate an API key.
ListKeysList all keys for the organization that you are currently authenticated to.
CreateKeyFromExistingKeyAuthorizationsCreate a new API key with an existing key’s authorizations.

Establish a connection

To use the Viam fleet management API, you first need to instantiate a ViamClient and then instantiate an AppClient. See the following example for reference.

You can create an API key on your settings page.

import asyncio

from viam.rpc.dial import DialOptions, Credentials
from viam.app.viam_client import ViamClient


async def connect() -> ViamClient:
    dial_options = DialOptions(
      credentials=Credentials(
        type="api-key",
        # Replace "<API-KEY>" (including brackets) with your API key
        payload='<API-KEY>',
      ),
      # Replace "<API-KEY-ID>" (including brackets) with your API key
      # ID
      auth_entity='<API-KEY-ID>'
    )
    return await ViamClient.create_from_dial_options(dial_options)


async def main():

    # Make a ViamClient
    viam_client = await connect()
    # Instantiate an AppClient called "cloud"
    # to run fleet management API methods on
    cloud = viam_client.app_client

    viam_client.close()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    asyncio.run(main())

Once you have instantiated an AppClient, you can run the following API methods against the AppClient object (named fleet in the examples).

API

GetUserIDByEmail

Get the ID of a user by email.

Parameters:

  • email (str) (required): The email of the user.

Returns:

  • (str): The ID of the user.

Example:

id = await cloud.get_user_id_by_email("youremail@email.com")

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

CreateOrganization

Create an organization.

Parameters:

  • name (str) (required): The name of the organization.

Returns:

Example:

organization = await cloud.create_organization("name")

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

ListOrganizations

List the organizations the user is an authorized user of.

Parameters:

  • None.

Returns:

Example:

org_list = await cloud.list_organizations()

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

GetOrganizationsWithAccessToLocation

Get all organizations that have access to a location.

Parameters:

  • location_id (str) (required): The ID of the location.

Returns:

Example:

org_list = await cloud.get_organizations_with_access_to_location("location-id")

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

ListOrganizationsByUser

List the organizations a user belongs to.

Parameters:

  • user_id (str) (required): The ID of the user. You can retrieve this with the get_user_id_by_email() method.

Returns:

Example:

org_list = await cloud.list_organizations_by_user("<YOUR-USER-ID>")

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

GetOrganization

Retrieve the organization object for the requested organization containing the organization’s ID, name, public namespace, and more.

Parameters:

  • org_id (str) (required): The ID of the organization to query. You can retrieve this from the organization settings page.

Returns:

Raises:

  • (GRPCError): If the provided org_id is invalid, or not currently authed to.

Example:

org = await cloud.get_organization("<YOUR-ORG-ID>")

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

GetOrganizationNamespaceAvailability

Check the availability of an organization namespace.

Parameters:

  • public_namespace (str) (required): Organization namespace to check. Namespaces can only contain lowercase alphanumeric and dash characters.

Returns:

  • (bool): True if the provided namespace is available.

Raises:

  • (GRPCError): If an invalid namespace (for example, “”) is provided.

Example:

available = await cloud.get_organization_namespace_availability(
    public_namespace="my-cool-organization")

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

UpdateOrganization

Updates organization details.

Parameters:

  • org_id (str) (required): The ID of the organization to update.
  • name (str) (optional): If provided, updates the org’s name.
  • public_namespace (str) (optional): If provided, sets the org’s namespace if it hasn’t already been set.
  • region (str) (optional): If provided, updates the org’s region.
  • cid (str) (optional): If provided, update’s the org’s CRM ID.

Returns:

Raises:

  • (GRPCError): If the org’s namespace has already been set, or if the provided namespace is already taken.

Example:

organization = await cloud.update_organization(
    org_id="<YOUR-ORG-ID>",
    name="Artoo's Org",
    public_namespace="artoo"
)

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

DeleteOrganization

Delete an organization.

Parameters:

  • org_id (str) (required): The ID of the organization. You can obtain your organization ID from the Viam app’s organization settings page.

Returns:

  • None.

Example:

await cloud.delete_organization("<YOUR-ORG-ID>")

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

ListOrganizationMembers

List the members and invites of the organization that you are currently authenticated to.

Parameters:

  • org_id (str) (required): The ID of the organization to list members of. You can obtain your organization ID from the Viam app’s organization settings page.

Returns:

Example:

member_list, invite_list = await cloud.list_organization_members("<YOUR-ORG-ID>")

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

CreateOrganizationInvite

Create an organization invite and send it by email.

Parameters:

  • org_id (str) (required): The ID of the organization to create an invite for. You can obtain your organization ID from the Viam app’s organization settings page.
  • email (str) (required): The email address to send the invite to.
  • authorizations (List[viam.proto.app.Authorization]) (optional): Specifications of the authorizations to include in the invite. If not provided, full owner permissions will be granted.
  • send_email_invite (bool) (required): Whether or not an email should be sent to the recipient of an invite. The user must accept the email to be added to the associated authorizations. When set to false, the user automatically receives the associated authorization on the next login of the user with the associated email address.

Returns:

Raises:

  • (GRPCError): if an invalid email is provided, or if the user is already a member of the org.

Example:

await cloud.create_organization_invite("<YOUR-ORG-ID>", "youremail@email.com")

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

UpdateOrganizationInviteAuthorizations

Update (add or remove) the authorizations attached to an organization invite that has already been created. If an invitation has only one authorization and you want to remove it, delete the invitation instead of using this method.

Parameters:

  • org_id (str) (required): The ID of the organization that the invite is for. You can obtain your organization ID from the Viam app’s organization settings page.
  • email (str) (required): Email of the user the invite was sent to.
  • add_authorizations (List[viam.proto.app.Authorization]) (optional): Optional list of authorizations to add to the invite.
  • remove_authorizations (List[viam.proto.app.Authorization]) (optional): Optional list of authorizations to remove from the invite.

Returns:

Raises:

  • (GRPCError): If no authorizations are passed or if an invalid combination of authorizations is passed (for example an authorization to remove when the invite only contains one authorization).

Example:

from viam.proto.app import Authorization

auth = Authorization(
    authorization_type="role",
    authorization_id="location_owner",
    resource_type="location", # "robot", "location", or "organization"
    resource_id="012456lni0", # machine id, location id or org id
    identity_id="",
    organization_id="<YOUR-ORG-ID>",
    identity_type=""
)

update_invite = await cloud.update_organization_invite_authorizations(
    org_id="<YOUR-ORG-ID>",
    email="notarealemail@viam.com",
    add_authorizations=[auth]
)

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

DeleteOrganizationMember

Remove a member from the organization you are currently authenticated to.

Parameters:

  • org_id (str) (required): The ID of the org to remove the user from. You can obtain your organization ID from the Viam app’s organization settings page.
  • user_id (str) (required): The ID of the user to remove.

Returns:

  • None.

Example:

member_list, invite_list = await cloud.list_organization_members(org_id="<YOUR-ORG-ID>")
first_user_id = member_list[0].user_id

await cloud.delete_organization_member(org_id="org_id", user_id=first_user_id)

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

DeleteOrganizationInvite

Delete a pending organization invite to the organization you are currently authenticated to.

Parameters:

  • org_id (str) (required): The ID of the organization that the invite to delete was for. You can obtain your organization ID from the Viam app’s organization settings page.
  • email (str) (required): The email address the pending invite was sent to.

Returns:

  • None.

Raises:

  • (GRPCError): If no pending invite is associated with the provided email address.

Example:

await cloud.delete_organization_invite("<YOUR-ORG-ID>", "youremail@email.com")

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

ResendOrganizationInvite

Resend a pending organization invite email.

Parameters:

  • org_id (str) (required): The ID of the organization that the invite to resend was for. You can obtain your organization ID from the Viam app’s organization settings page.
  • email (str) (required): The email address associated with the invite.

Returns:

Raises:

  • (GRPCError): If no pending invite is associated with the provided email address.

Example:

org_invite = await cloud.resend_organization_invite("<YOUR-ORG-ID>", "youremail@email.com")

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

CreateLocation

Create and name a location under the organization you are currently authenticated to. Optionally, put the new location under a specified parent location.

Parameters:

  • org_id (str) (required): The ID of the organization to create the location under. You can obtain your organization ID from the Viam app’s organization settings page.
  • name (str) (required): Name of the location.
  • parent_location_id (str) (optional): Optional parent location to put the location under. Defaults to a root-level location if no location ID is provided.

Returns:

Raises:

  • (GRPCError): If either an invalid name (for example, “”), or parent location ID (for example, a nonexistent ID) is passed.

Example:

my_new_location = await cloud.create_location(org_id="<YOUR-ORG-ID>", name="Robotville", parent_location_id="111ab12345")

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

GetLocation

Get a location by its location ID.

Parameters:

  • location_id (str) (optional): ID of the location to get. Defaults to the location ID provided at AppClient instantiation.

Returns:

Raises:

  • (GRPCError): If an invalid location ID is passed or if one isn’t passed and there was no location ID provided at AppClient instantiation.

Example:

location = await cloud.get_location(location_id="123ab12345")

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

UpdateLocation

Change the name of a parent location and/or assign it a new location.

Parameters:

  • location_id (str) (required): ID of the location to update. Must be specified.
  • name (str) (optional): Optional new name to be updated on the location. Defaults to the empty string “” (that is, the name doesn’t change).
  • parent_location_id (str) (optional): Optional ID of new parent location to move the location under. Defaults to the empty string “” (that is, no new parent location is assigned).

Returns:

Raises:

  • (GRPCError): If either an invalid location ID, name, or parent location ID is passed.

Example:

# The following line takes the location with ID "abc12abcde" and moves it to be a
# sub-location of the location with ID "xyz34xxxxx"
my_updated_location = await cloud.update_location(
    location_id="abc12abcde",
    name="",
    parent_location_id="xyz34xxxxx",
)

# The following line changes the name of the location without changing its parent location
my_updated_location = await cloud.update_location(
    location_id="abc12abcde",
    name="Land Before Robots"
)

# The following line moves the location back up to be a top level location without changing its name
my_updated_location = await cloud.update_location(
    location_id="abc12abcde",
    name="",
    parent_location_id=""
)

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

DeleteLocation

Delete a location.

Parameters:

  • location_id (str) (required): ID of the location to delete. Must be specified.

Returns:

  • None.

Raises:

  • (GRPCError): If an invalid location ID is passed.

Example:

await cloud.delete_location(location_id="abc12abcde")

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

ListLocations

Get a list of all locations under the organization you are currently authenticated to.

Parameters:

  • org_id (str) (required): The ID of the org to list locations for. You can obtain your organization ID from the Viam app’s organization settings page.

Returns:

Example:

locations = await cloud.list_locations("<YOUR-ORG-ID>")

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

ShareLocation

Share a location with an organization.

Parameters:

  • organization_id (str) (required): The ID of the organization.
  • location_id (str) (required): The ID of the location.

Returns:

  • None.

Example:

await cloud.share_location("<YOUR-ORG-ID>", "<YOUR-LOCATION-ID>")

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

UnshareLocation

Stop sharing a location with an organization.

Parameters:

  • organization_id (str) (required): The ID of the organization.
  • location_id (str) (required): The ID of the location.

Returns:

  • None.

Example:

await cloud.unshare_location("<YOUR-ORG-ID>", "<YOUR-LOCATION-ID>")

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

LocationAuth

Get a location’s LocationAuth (location secret or secrets).

Parameters:

  • location_id (str) (optional): ID of the location to retrieve LocationAuth from. Defaults to the location ID provided at AppClient instantiation.

Returns:

Raises:

  • (GRPCError): If an invalid location ID is passed or if one isn’t passed and there was no location ID provided at AppClient instantiation.

Example:

loc_auth = await cloud.location_auth(location_id="123xy12345")

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

CreateLocationSecret

Create a new location secret.

Parameters:

  • location_id (str) (optional): ID of the location to generate a new secret for. Defaults to the location ID provided at AppClient instantiation.

Returns:

Raises:

  • (GRPCError): If an invalid location ID is passed or one isn’t passed and there was no location ID provided at AppClient instantiation.

Example:

new_loc_auth = await cloud.create_location_secret(location_id="123xy12345")

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

DeleteLocationSecret

Delete a location secret.

Parameters:

  • secret_id (str) (required): ID of the secret to delete.
  • location_id (str) (optional): ID of the location to delete secret from. Defaults to the location ID provided at AppClient instantiation.

Returns:

  • None.

Raises:

  • (GRPCError): If either an invalid location ID or secret ID is passed or a location ID isn’t passed and there was no location ID provided at AppClient instantiation.

Example:

await cloud.delete_location_secret(
    secret_id="abcd123-456-7890ab-cxyz98-989898xyzxyz",
    location_id="123xy12345"
)

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

GetRobot

Get a machine by its ID.

Parameters:

  • robot_id (str) (required): ID of the machine to get. You can copy this value from the URL of the machine’s page.

Returns:

Raises:

  • (GRPCError): If an invalid machine ID is passed.

Example:

machine = await cloud.get_robot(robot_id="1a123456-x1yz-0ab0-a12xyzabc")

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

GetRobotAPIKeys

Gets the API keys for the machine.

Parameters:

  • robot_id (str) (required): The ID of the machine.

Returns:

Example:

api_keys = await cloud.get_robot_api_keys(robot_id="robot-id")

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

GetRobotParts

Get a list of all the parts under a specific machine.

Parameters:

  • robot_id (str) (required): ID of the machine to get parts from.

Returns:

Raises:

  • (GRPCError): If an invalid machine ID is passed.

Example:

list_of_parts = await cloud.get_robot_parts(
    robot_id="1a123456-x1yz-0ab0-a12xyzabc"
)

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

GetRobotPart

Get a specific machine part.

Parameters:

  • robot_part_id (str) (required): ID of the machine part to get. You can retrieve this value by navigating to the machine’s page, clicking on the part status dropdown, and clicking the copy icon next to Part ID.
  • dest (str) (optional): Optional filepath to write the machine part’s config file in JSON format to.
  • indent (int) (required): Size (in number of spaces) of indent when writing config to dest. Defaults to 4.

Returns:

Raises:

  • (GRPCError): If an invalid machine part ID is passed.

Example:

my_robot_part = await cloud.get_robot_part(
    robot_part_id="abc12345-1a23-1234-ab12-a22a22a2aa22"
)

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

GetRobotPartLogs

Get the logs associated with a specific machine part.

Parameters:

  • robot_part_id (str) (required): ID of the machine part to get logs from.
  • filter (str) (optional): Only include logs with messages that contain the string filter. Defaults to empty string “” (that is, no filter).
  • dest (str) (optional): Optional filepath to write the log entries to.
  • log_levels (List[str]) (required): List of log levels for which entries should be returned. Defaults to empty list, which returns all logs.
  • num_log_entries (int) (required): Number of log entries to return. Passing 0 returns all logs. Defaults to 100. All logs or the first num_log_entries logs will be returned, whichever comes first.

Returns:

Raises:

  • (GRPCError): If an invalid robot part ID is passed.

Example:

part_logs = await cloud.get_robot_part_logs(
    robot_part_id="abc12345-1a23-1234-ab12-a22a22a2aa22",
    num_log_entries=20
)

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

TailRobotPartLogs

Get an asynchronous iterator that receives live machine part logs.

Parameters:

  • robot_part_id (str) (required): ID of the machine part to retrieve logs from.
  • errors_only (bool) (required): Boolean specifying whether or not to only include error logs. Defaults to True.
  • filter (str) (optional): Only include logs with messages that contain the string filter. Defaults to empty string “” (that is, no filter).

Returns:

Example:

logs_stream = await cloud.tail_robot_part_logs(
    robot_part_id="abc12345-1a23-1234-ab12-a22a22a2aa22"
)

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

GetRobotPartHistory

Get a list containing the history of a machine part.

Parameters:

  • robot_part_id (str) (required): ID of the machine part to retrieve history from.

Returns:

Raises:

  • (GRPCError): If an invalid machine part ID is provided.

Example:

part_history = await cloud.get_robot_part_history(
    robot_part_id="abc12345-1a23-1234-ab12-a22a22a2aa22"
)

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

UpdateRobotPart

Change the name of and assign an optional new configuration to a machine part.

Parameters:

  • robot_part_id (str) (required): ID of the robot part to update.
  • name (str) (required): New name to be updated on the robot part.
  • robot_config (Mapping[str, Any]) (optional): Optional new config represented as a dictionary to be updated on the machine part. The machine part’s config will remain as is (no change) if one isn’t passed.

Returns:

Raises:

  • (GRPCError): If either an invalid machine part ID, name, or config is passed.

Example:

my_machine_part = await cloud.update_robot_part(
    robot_part_id="abc12345-1a23-1234-ab12-a22a22a2aa22"
)

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

NewRobotPart

Create a new machine part.

Parameters:

  • robot_id (str) (required): ID of the machine to create a new part for. See Find machine ID for instructions on retrieving this value.
  • part_name (str) (required): Name of the new part.

Returns:

  • (str): The new machine part’s ID.

Raises:

  • (GRPCError): If either an invalid machine ID or name is passed.

Example:

new_part_id = await cloud.new_robot_part(
    robot_id="1a123456-x1yz-0ab0-a12xyzabc", part_name="myNewSubPart"
)

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

DeleteRobotPart

Delete the specified machine part.

Parameters:

  • robot_part_id (str) (required): ID of the machine part to delete. See Find part ID for instructions on retrieving this value.

Returns:

  • None.

Raises:

  • (GRPCError): If an invalid machine part ID is passed.

Example:

await cloud.delete_robot_part(
    robot_part_id="abc12345-1a23-1234-ab12-a22a22a2aa22"
)

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

MarkPartAsMain

Mark a machine part as the main part of a machine.

Parameters:

  • robot_part_id (str) (required): ID of the machine part to mark as main.

Returns:

  • None.

Raises:

  • (GRPCError): If an invalid machine part ID is passed.

Example:

await cloud.mark_part_as_main(
    robot_part_id="abc12345-1a23-1234-ab12-a22a22a2aa22")

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

MarkPartForRestart

Mark a specified machine part for restart.

Parameters:

  • robot_part_id (str) (required): ID of the machine part to mark for restart.

Returns:

  • None.

Raises:

  • (GRPCError): If an invalid machine part ID is passed.

Example:

await cloud.mark_part_for_restart(
    robot_part_id="abc12345-1a23-1234-ab12-a22a22a2aa22")

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

CreateRobotPartSecret

Create a machine part secret.

Parameters:

  • robot_part_id (str) (required): ID of the machine part to create a secret for.

Returns:

  • (RobotPart): The machine part the new secret was generated for.

Raises:

  • (GRPCError): If an invalid machine part ID is passed.

Example:

part_with_new_secret = await cloud.create_robot_part_secret(
    robot_part_id="abc12345-1a23-1234-ab12-a22a22a2aa22")

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

DeleteRobotPartSecret

Delete a machine part secret.

Parameters:

  • robot_part_id (str) (required): ID of the machine part to delete the secret from.
  • secret_id (str) (required): ID of the secret to delete.

Returns:

  • None.

Raises:

  • (GRPCError): If an invalid machine part ID or secret ID is passed.

Example:

await cloud.delete_robot_part_secret(
    robot_part_id="abc12345-1a23-1234-ab12-a22a22a2aa22",
    secret_id="123xyz12-abcd-4321-12ab-12xy1xyz12xy")

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

ListRobots

Get a list of all machines in a specified location.

Parameters:

  • location_id (str) (optional): ID of the location to retrieve the machines from. Defaults to the location ID provided at AppClient instantiation.

Returns:

Raises:

  • (GRPCError): If an invalid location ID is passed or one isn’t passed and there was no location ID provided at AppClient instantiation.

Example:

list_of_machines = await cloud.list_robots(location_id="123ab12345")

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

NewRobot

Create a new machine.

Parameters:

  • name (str) (required): Name of the new machine.
  • location_id (str) (optional): ID of the location under which to create the machine. Defaults to the current authorized location.

Returns:

  • (str): The new robot’s ID.

Raises:

  • (GRPCError): If an invalid location ID is passed or one isn’t passed and there was no location ID provided at AppClient instantiation.

Example:

new_machine_id = await cloud.new_robot(name="beepboop", location_id="my-location-id")

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

UpdateRobot

Change the name of an existing machine.

Parameters:

  • robot_id (str) (required): ID of the machine to update. See Find machine ID for instructions on retrieving this value.
  • name (str) (required): New name to be updated on the machine.
  • location_id (str) (optional): ID of the location under which the machine exists. Defaults to the location ID provided at AppClient instantiation.

Returns:

Raises:

  • (GRPCError): If either an invalid machine ID, name, or location ID is passed or a location ID isn’t passed and there was no location ID provided at AppClient instantiation.

Example:

updated_robot = await cloud.update_robot(
    robot_id="1a123456-x1yz-0ab0-a12xyzabc",
    name="Orange-Robot",
    location_id="23ab12345"
)

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

DeleteRobot

Delete a specified machine.

Parameters:

  • robot_id (str) (required): ID of the machine to delete. See Find machine ID for instructions on retrieving this value.

Returns:

  • None.

Raises:

  • (GRPCError): If an invalid machine ID is passed.

Example:

await cloud.delete_robot(robot_id="1a123456-x1yz-0ab0-a12xyzabc")

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

ListFragments

Get a list of fragments in the organization you are currently authenticated to.

Parameters:

  • org_id (str) (required): The ID of the organization to list fragments for. You can obtain your organization ID from the Viam app’s organization settings page.
  • show_public (bool) (required): Optional boolean specifying whether or not to only show public fragments. If True, only public fragments will return. If False, only private fragments will return. Defaults to True. Deprecated since version 0.25.0: Use visibilities instead.
  • visibilities (List[Fragment]) (optional): List of FragmentVisibilities specifying which types of fragments to include in the results. If empty, by default only public fragments will be returned.

Returns:

Example:

fragments_list = await cloud.list_fragments(org_id="org-id", visibilities=[])

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

GetFragment

Get a fragment by ID.

Parameters:

  • fragment_id (str) (required): ID of the fragment to get.

Returns:

Raises:

  • (GRPCError): If an invalid fragment ID is passed.

Example:

# Get a fragment and print its name and when it was created.
the_fragment = await cloud.get_fragment(
    fragment_id="12a12ab1-1234-5678-abcd-abcd01234567")
print("Name: ", the_fragment.name, "\nCreated on: ", the_fragment.created_on)

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

CreateFragment

Create a new private fragment.

Parameters:

  • org_id (str) (required): The ID of the organization to create the fragment within. You can obtain your organization ID from the Viam app’s organization settings page.
  • name (str) (required): Name of the fragment.
  • config (Mapping[str, Any]) (optional): Optional Dictionary representation of new config to assign to specified fragment. Can be assigned by updating the fragment.

Returns:

Raises:

  • (GRPCError): If an invalid name is passed.

Example:

new_fragment = await cloud.create_fragment(org_id="org-id", name="cool_smart_machine_to_configure_several_of")

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

UpdateFragment

Update a fragment name and its config and/or visibility.

Parameters:

  • fragment_id (str) (required): ID of the fragment to update.
  • name (str) (required): New name to associate with the fragment.
  • config (Mapping[str, Any]) (optional): Optional Dictionary representation of new config to assign to specified fragment. Not passing this parameter will leave the fragment’s config unchanged.
  • public (bool) (optional): Boolean specifying whether the fragment is public. Not passing this parameter will leave the fragment’s visibility unchanged. A fragment is private by default when created. Deprecated since version 0.25.0: Use visibility instead.
  • visibility (Fragment) (optional): Optional FragmentVisibility list specifying who should be allowed to view the fragment. Not passing this parameter will leave the fragment’s visibility unchanged. A fragment is private by default when created.

Returns:

Raises:

  • (GRPCError): if an invalid ID, name, or config is passed.

Example:

updated_fragment = await cloud.update_fragment(
    fragment_id="12a12ab1-1234-5678-abcd-abcd01234567",
    name="better_name")

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

DeleteFragment

Delete a fragment.

Parameters:

  • fragment_id (str) (required): ID of the fragment to delete.

Returns:

  • None.

Raises:

  • (GRPCError): If an invalid fragment ID is passed.

Example:

await cloud.delete_fragment(
    fragment_id="12a12ab1-1234-5678-abcd-abcd01234567")

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

GetFragmentHistory

Get fragment history.

Parameters:

  • id (str) (required): ID of the fragment to fetch history for.
  • page_token (str) (optional): the page token for the fragment history collection.
  • page_limit (int) (optional): the number of fragment history documents to return in the result. The default page limit is 10.

Returns:

Raises:

  • (GRPCError): if an invalid fragment id, page token or page limit is passed.

Example:

fragment_history = await cloud.get_fragment_history(
    id = "12a12ab1-1234-5678-abcd-abcd01234567",
    page_token = "pg-token",
    page_limit = 10
)

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

AddRole

Add a role under the organization you are currently authenticated to.

Parameters:

  • org_id (str) (required): The ID of the organization to create the role in. You can obtain your organization ID from the Viam app’s organization settings page.
  • identity_id (str) (required): ID of the entity the role belongs to (for example, a user ID).
  • role (Literal[‘owner’] | Literal[‘operator’]) (required): The role to add (either "owner" or "operator").
  • resource_type (Literal[‘organization’] | Literal[’location’] | Literal[‘robot’]) (required): The type of the resource to add the role to (either "organization", "location", or "robot"). Must match the type of the resource_id’s resource.
  • resource_id (str) (required): ID of the resource the role applies to (the ID of either an organization, location, or machine.).

Returns:

  • None.

Raises:

  • (GRPCError): If either an invalid identity ID, role ID, resource type, or resource ID is passed.

Example:

await cloud.add_role(
    org_id="<YOUR-ORG-ID>",
    identity_id="abc01234-0123-4567-ab12-a11a00a2aa22",
    role="owner",
    resource_type="location",
    resource_id="111ab12345"
)

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

RemoveRole

Remove a role under the organization you are currently authenticated to.

Parameters:

  • org_id (str) (required): The ID of the organization the role exists in. You can obtain your organization ID from the Viam app’s organization settings page.
  • identity_id (str) (required): ID of the entity the role belongs to (for example, a user ID).
  • role (Literal[‘owner’] | Literal[‘operator’]) (required): The role to remove.
  • resource_type (Literal[‘organization’] | Literal[’location’] | Literal[‘robot’]) (required): Type of the resource the role is being removed from. Must match resource_id.
  • resource_id (str) (required): ID of the resource the role applies to (that is, either an organization, location, or robot ID).

Returns:

  • None.

Raises:

  • (GRPCError): If either an invalid identity ID, role ID, resource type, or resource ID or is passed.

Example:

await cloud.remove_role(
    org_id="<YOUR-ORG-ID>",
    identity_id="abc01234-0123-4567-ab12-a11a00a2aa22",
    role="owner",
    resource_type="location",
    resource_id="111ab12345"
)

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

ChangeRole

Changes an existing role to a new role.

Parameters:

  • organization_id (str) (required): ID of the organization.
  • old_identity_id (str) (required): ID of the entity the role belongs to (for example, a user ID).
  • old_role (Literal[‘owner’] | Literal[‘operator’]) (required): The role to be changed.
  • old_resource_type (Literal[‘organization’] | Literal[’location’] | Literal[‘robot’]) (required): Type of the resource the role is added to. Must match old_resource_id.
  • old_resource_id (str) (required): ID of the resource the role applies to (that is, either an organization, location, or robot ID).
  • new_identity_id (str) (required): New ID of the entity the role belongs to (for example, a user ID).
  • new_role (Literal[‘owner’] | Literal[‘operator’]) (required): The new role.
  • new_resource_type (Literal[‘organization’] | Literal[’location’] | Literal[‘robot’]) (required): Type of the resource to add role to. Must match new_resource_id.
  • new_resource_id (str) (required): New ID of the resource the role applies to (that is, either an organization, location, or robot ID).

Returns:

  • None.

Example:

await cloud.change_role(
    organization_id="<YOUR-ORG-ID>",
    old_identity_id="abc01234-0123-4567-ab12-a11a00a2aa22",
    old_role="operator",
    old_resource_type="location",
    old_resource_id="111ab12345",
    new_identity_id="abc01234-0123-4567-ab12-a11a00a2aa22",
    new_role="owner",
    new_resource_type="organization",
    new_resource_id="abc12345"
)

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

ListAuthorizations

List all authorizations (owners and operators) of a specific resource (or resources) within the organization you are currently authenticated to. If no resource IDs are provided, all resource authorizations within the organizations are returned.

Parameters:

  • org_id (str) (required): The ID of the organization to list authorizations for.
  • resource_ids (List[str]) (optional): IDs of the resources to retrieve authorizations from. If None, defaults to all resources.

Returns:

Raises:

  • (GRPCError): If an invalid resource ID is passed.

Example:

list_of_auths = await cloud.list_authorizations(
    org_id="<YOUR-ORG-ID>",
    resource_ids=["1a123456-x1yz-0ab0-a12xyzabc"])

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

CheckPermissions

Check if the organization, location, or robot your ViamClient is authenticated to is permitted to perform some action or set of actions on the resource you pass to the method.

Parameters:

Returns:

Raises:

  • (GRPCError): If the list of permissions to validate is empty.

Example:

from viam.proto.app import AuthorizedPermissions

# Check whether the entity you're currently authenticated to has permission to control and/or
# read logs from robots in the "organization-identifier123" org
permissions = [AuthorizedPermissions(resource_type="organization",
                                     resource_id="<YOUR-ORG-ID>",
                                     permissions=["control_robot",
                                                  "read_robot_logs"])]

filtered_permissions = await cloud.check_permissions(permissions)

Valid arguments for permissions are as follows:

Click to see permissions strings available
"read_organization"
"write_organization"

"read_fragment" "write_fragment"

"read_location" "write_location"

"read_location_secret" "read_robot_secret"

"read_robot" "read_robot_config" "read_robot_logs" "write_robot" "control_robot"

"read_organization_data_management" "read_location_data_management" "read_robot_data_management" "write_organization_data_management" "write_location_data_management" "write_robot_data_management"

"read_robot_history"

"read_mapping_sessions" "create_maps"

"write_private_registry_item" "write_public_registry_item" "read_private_registry_item"

"train_models"

"read_packages" "write_packages" "delete_packages"

"configure_database_user" "get_database_connection"

"create_dataset" "list_dataset" "rename_dataset" "delete_dataset"

For more information about managing permissions, see Role-Based Access Control.

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

GetRegistryItem

Get registry item by ID.

Parameters:

  • item_id (str) (required): The ID of the registry item. This is the namespace and name of the item in the form namespace:name. For example, Viam’s csi-cam-pi module’s item ID would be viam:csi-cam-pi. You can also use org-id:name. For example, abc01234-0123-4567-ab12-a11a00a2aa22:training-script.

Returns:

Example:

item = await cloud.get_registry_item("item-id")

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

CreateRegistryItem

Create a registry item.

Parameters:

  • organization_id (str) (required): The organization to create the registry item under.
  • name (str) (required): The name of the registry item, which must be unique within your org.
  • type (viam.proto.app.packages.PackageType.ValueType) (required): The type of the item in the registry.

Returns:

  • None.

Example:

from viam.proto.app.packages import PackageType

await cloud.create_registry_item("<YOUR-ORG-ID>", "name", PackageType.PACKAGE_TYPE_ML_MODEL)

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

UpdateRegistryItem

Update a registry item.

Parameters:

  • item_id (str) (required): The ID of the registry item, containing either the namespace and module name (for example, my-org:my-module) or organization ID and module name (org-id:my-module).
  • type (viam.proto.app.packages.PackageType.ValueType) (required): The type of the item in the registry.
  • description (str) (required): The description of the registry item.
  • visibility (viam.proto.app.Visibility.ValueType) (required): The visibility of the registry item.

Returns:

  • None.

Example:

from viam.proto.app.packages import PackageType
from viam.proto.app import Visibility

await cloud.update_registry_item(
    "your-namespace:your-name",
    PackageType.PACKAGE_TYPE_ML_TRAINING,
    "description",
    Visibility.VISIBILITY_PUBLIC
)

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

ListRegistryItems

List the registry items in an organization.

Parameters:

  • organization_id (str) (required): The ID of the organization to return registry items for.
  • types (List[viam.proto.app.packages.PackageType.ValueType]) (required): The types of registry items.
  • visibilities (List[viam.proto.app.Visibility.ValueType]) (required): The visibilities of registry items.
  • platforms (List[str]) (required): The platforms of registry items.
  • statuses (List[viam.proto.app.RegistryItemStatus.ValueType]) (required): The types of the items in the registry.
  • search_term (str) (optional): The search term of the registry items.
  • page_token (str) (optional): The page token of the registry items.

Returns:

Example:

from viam.proto.app.packages import PackageType
from viam.proto.app import Visibility, RegistryItemStatus

# List private, published ml training scripts in your organization
registry_items = await cloud.list_registry_items(
    organization_id="<YOUR-ORG-ID>",
    types=[PackageType.PACKAGE_TYPE_ML_TRAINING],
    visibilities=[Visibility.VISIBILITY_PRIVATE],
    platforms=[""],
    statuses=[RegistryItemStatus.REGISTRY_ITEM_STATUS_PUBLISHED]
)

# List public, published linux modules in all organizations
registry_items = await cloud.list_registry_items(
    organization_id="",
    types=[PackageType.PACKAGE_TYPE_MODULE],
    visibilities=[Visibility.VISIBILITY_PUBLIC],
    platforms=["linux/any"],
    statuses=[RegistryItemStatus.REGISTRY_ITEM_STATUS_PUBLISHED]
)

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

DeleteRegistryItem

Delete a registry item.

Parameters:

  • item_id (str) (required): The ID of the deleted registry item, containing either the namespace and module name (for example, my-org:my-module) or organization ID and module name (org-id:my-module).

Returns:

  • None.

Example:

await cloud.delete_registry_item("your-namespace:your-name")

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

CreateModule

Create a module under the organization you are currently authenticated to.

Parameters:

  • org_id (str) (required): The ID of the organization to create the module under. You can obtain your organization ID from the Viam app’s organization settings page.
  • name (str) (required): The name of the module. Must be unique within your organization.

Returns:

  • (Tuple[str, str]): A tuple containing the ID [0] of the new module and its URL [1].

Raises:

  • (GRPCError): If an invalid name (for example, “”) is passed.

Example:

new_module = await cloud.create_module(org_id="org-id", name="cool_new_hoverboard_module")
print("Module ID:", new_module[0])

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

UpdateModule

Update the documentation URL, description, models, entrypoint, and/or the visibility of a module.

Parameters:

  • module_id (str) (required): ID of the module being updated, containing either the namespace and module name (for example, my-org:my-module) or organization ID and module name (org-id:my-module).
  • url (str) (required): The url to reference for documentation and code (NOT the url of the module itself).
  • description (str) (required): A short description of the module that explains its purpose.
  • models (List[viam.proto.app.Model]) (optional): list of models that are available in the module.
  • entrypoint (str) (required): The executable to run to start the module program.
  • public (bool) (required): The visibility that should be set for the module. Defaults to False (private).

Returns:

  • (str): The URL of the newly updated module.

Raises:

  • (GRPCError): If either an invalid module ID, URL, list of models, or organization ID is passed.

Example:

from viam.proto.app import Model

model = Model(
    api="rdk:component:base",
    model="my-group:cool_new_hoverboard_module:wheeled"
)

url_of_my_module = await cloud.update_module(
    module_id="my-group:cool_new_hoverboard_module",
    url="https://docsformymodule.viam.com",
    models=[model],
    description="A base to support hoverboards.",
    entrypoint="exec"
)

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

UploadModuleFile

Upload a module file.

Parameters:

Returns:

  • (str): URL of uploaded file.

Example:

from viam.proto.app import ModuleFileInfo

module_file_info = ModuleFileInfo(
    module_id = "sierra:cool_new_hoverboard_module",
    version = "1.0.0",
    platform = "darwin/arm64"
)

file_id = await cloud.upload_module_file(
    module_file_info=module_file_info,
    file=b"<file>"
)

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

GetModule

Get a module by its ID.

Parameters:

  • module_id (str) (required): ID of the module being retrieved, containing either the namespace and module name (for example, my-org:my-module) or organization ID and module name (org-id:my-module).

Returns:

Raises:

  • (GRPCError): If an invalid module ID is passed.

Example:

the_module = await cloud.get_module(module_id="my-group:my-cool-modular-base")

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

ListModules

List the modules under the organization you are currently authenticated to.

Parameters:

  • org_id (str) (required): The ID of the organization to list modules for. You can obtain your organization ID from the Viam app’s organization settings page.

Returns:

Example:

modules_list = await cloud.list_modules("<YOUR-ORG-ID>")

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

CreateKey

Create a new API key.

Parameters:

  • org_id (str) (required): The ID of the organization to create the key for. You can obtain your organization ID from the Viam app’s organization settings page.
  • authorizations (List[APIKeyAuthorization]) (required): A list of authorizations to associate with the key.
  • name (str) (optional): A name for the key. If None, defaults to the current timestamp.

Returns:

  • (Tuple[str, str]): The api key and api key ID.

Raises:

  • (GRPCError): If the authorizations list is empty.

Example:

from viam.app.app_client import APIKeyAuthorization

auth = APIKeyAuthorization(
    role="owner",
    resource_type="robot",
    resource_id="your-machine-id123"
)

api_key, api_key_id = cloud.create_key(
    org_id="<YOUR-ORG-ID>",
    authorizations=[auth],
    name="my_key"
)

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

DeleteKey

Delete an API key.

Parameters:

  • id (str) (required): The ID of the API key.

Returns:

  • None.

Example:

await cloud.delete_key("key-id")

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

RotateKey

Rotate an API key.

Parameters:

  • id (str) (required): The ID of the key to be rotated.

Returns:

  • (Tuple[str, str]): The API key and API key id.

Example:

id, key = await cloud.rotate_key("key-id")

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

ListKeys

List all keys for the organization that you are currently authenticated to.

Parameters:

  • org_id (str) (required): The ID of the organization to list API keys for. You can obtain your organization ID from the Viam app’s organization settings page.

Returns:

Example:

keys = await cloud.list_keys(org_id="<YOUR-ORG-ID>")

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

CreateKeyFromExistingKeyAuthorizations

Create a new API key with an existing key’s authorizations.

Parameters:

  • id (str) (required): the ID of the API key to duplication authorizations from.

Returns:

  • (Tuple[str, str]): The API key and API key id.

Example:

api_key, api_key_id = await cloud.create_key_from_existing_key_authorizations(
    id="INSERT YOUR API KEY ID")

For more information, see the Python SDK Docs.

Find part ID

To copy the ID of your machine part, select the part status dropdown to the right of your machine’s location and name on the top of its page and click the copy icon next to Part ID:

Part ID displayed in the Viam app.

Find machine ID

To copy the ID of your machine, click the (Actions) button in the upper-right corner of your machine’s page, then click Copy machine ID:

Machine ID in the actions dropdown in the Viam app.

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