I have tried many times since I first bought the device over a year ago to try to get the Python API to work. I keep tinkering, but have made no progress. They wrote the Python API in Python 2.7, which was a pain in itself. I was going to buy quite a few of these just because of the Python API, but fortunately changed my mind when I couldn't get it to work. They still show the Python API on Crowd Supply, but it was orphaned very early. It appears from their GIthub page that they abandoned Python and moved to Lua.
If you do ever find a way to use Python with this device, I'd be very interested to know.