All fun stuff. I expect some of the code could be made more 'Pythonic'. There are ways to process lists and dictionaries without resorting to a loop, but if it ain't broke...
We can do so much with the beem library. I am looking into other possibilities. I would like to get it running on a Raspberry Pi. I installed it, but got an error as soon as I imported it into a script. I need to look into that some more.
I tried many ways to search the list (that looks like a dictionary). The 'in' command is the easiest and works, but does not find the value. It was a case of what does work in the end. I'm a VB coder, so expect my style to be of that vein.
The Pi does seem a good option to run a script on 24 hours.