Python: FireServiceRota / BrandweerRooster

Python 3 API wrapper for FireServiceRota and BrandweerRooster.

About

This package provides access to emergency incident data from FireServiceRota and BrandweerRooster — services used by firefighters.

Features:

• Real-time incident notifications via WebSocket
• User availability (duty schedule)
• Incident response status (acknowledge / reject)
• Pager management: list pagers, send messages, poll delivery status

A subscription and login account are required. See fireservicerota.co.uk or brandweerrooster.nl for details.

Installation

pip install pyfireservicerota

Authentication

Authentication uses OAuth2 tokens. On first use, exchange your credentials for a token_info dict and store it. After that you only need the tokens — use refresh_tokens() to keep them valid without re-entering your password.

First-time login

from pyfireservicerota import FireServiceRota, InvalidAuthError

api = FireServiceRota(
    base_url="www.brandweerrooster.nl",
    username="your@email.address",
    password="yourpassword",
)

try:
    token_info = api.request_tokens()
except InvalidAuthError:
    print("Invalid credentials")
    token_info = None

Subsequent use (stored tokens)

from pyfireservicerota import FireServiceRota

api = FireServiceRota(
    base_url="www.brandweerrooster.nl",
    token_info=token_info,  # dict loaded from storage
)

Refreshing tokens

Any API call can raise ExpiredTokenError or InvalidTokenError when the access token needs refreshing:

from pyfireservicerota import ExpiredTokenError, InvalidTokenError, InvalidAuthError

try:
    result = api.get_availability("Europe/Amsterdam")
except (ExpiredTokenError, InvalidTokenError):
    try:
        token_info = api.refresh_tokens()
    except InvalidAuthError:
        print("Refresh token invalid, re-login required")

Usage

Availability

availability = api.get_availability("Europe/Amsterdam")
print(availability)
# {"available": True, "type": "recurring", ...} or {"available": False}

Incidents

incident_id = 123456

# Get your response status for an incident
response = api.get_incident_response(incident_id)

# Acknowledge (True) or reject (False)
api.set_incident_response(incident_id, True)

Real-time incident notifications (WebSocket)

import time
from pyfireservicerota import FireServiceRotaIncidents

def on_incident(data):
    print(f"Incident received: {data}")

wsurl = f"wss://www.brandweerrooster.nl/cable?access_token={token_info['access_token']}"

listener = FireServiceRotaIncidents(on_incident=on_incident)
listener.start(url=wsurl)

while True:
    time.sleep(1)

Pagers

# List pagers linked to your account
pagers = api.get_pagers()
# [{"id": 7719, "user_id": 12345, "serial_number": "C202351.01045", "type": "Swissphone s.QUAD C35",
#   "battery_level": 79, "state": "powered_on", "signal_strength": -91, ...}]

# Send using the pager's own registered address (confirmation=True)
result = api.send_pager_message(6789, "Test alarm message", confirmation=True)
if result:
    print(f"Sent: id={result['id']} state={result['acknowledgment_state']} address={result['address']}")

# Send to a specific capcode address
result = api.send_pager_message(6789, "Test alarm message", address="1234567")

# Send to multiple capcodes
result = api.send_pager_message(6789, "Test alarm message", addresses=["1234567", "7654321"])

# With a delivery-status webhook
result = api.send_pager_message(
    6789,
    "Test alarm message",
    confirmation=True,
    webhook_url="https://your.server/pager-callback",
)

# Poll delivery status
if result:
    status = api.get_pager_message_status(6789, result["id"])
    if status:
        print(status["acknowledgment_state"])  # e.g. "automatic", "manual", "none"

Example script

example.py connects to www.brandweerrooster.nl and runs through the full API surface:

1. Request OAuth2 tokens
2. Fetch the most recent incident
3. Get user availability
4. Get and set incident response status (uses the most recent incident)
5. List pagers, send a test message, poll delivery status
6. Connect to the WebSocket and listen for live incident notifications

Run with environment variables (non-interactive):

FSR_USERNAME=your@email.nl FSR_PASSWORD=secret python example.py

Or interactively (prompts for credentials):

python example.py

Exceptions

Exception	When raised
InvalidAuthError	Wrong credentials or expired refresh token
ExpiredTokenError	Access token expired or revoked — call refresh_tokens()
InvalidTokenError	Access token invalid — call refresh_tokens()