digitalmultimeter 0.5.3
Digital Multimeter
Digital Multimeter provides both a CLI and Python API interface to receive data
from a variety of digital multimeters.
See the list of supported multimeters here.
Features
Command line and Python module interface to digital multimeters
Continuous live data readings (using --count 0)
Output in json or csv formats
Output to console or file, allowing other tools to pickup and use the data
Configuration via config-file or environment-variables
Easy to expand for new digital-multimeter protocols
Easy installation using PyPI pip
Documentation and examples at digital-multimeter.readthedocs.io
Installation
user@computer:~$ pip install [--upgrade] digital-multimeter
CLI Usage Example
Continuously read the digital-multimeter and pipe the JSON output through jq to
make the JSON output look prettier.
user@computer:~$ dmm read --connect /dev/ttyUSB0 --count 0 | jq .
{
"reading": {
"value": 156.70000000000002,
"unit_name": "volts",
"unit_symbol": "V",
"scale": 0.001,
"scale_name": "milli",
"scale_symbol": "m",
"scaled_value": 0.15670000000000003,
"is_relative": false
},
"instrument": {
"module": "MultimeterDigitechQM1538",
"operation_mode": "voltage_dc",
"low_battery": false,
"is_hold": false
},
"time": {
"elapsed": 0.349347334,
"interval": 0.349347334,
"timestamp": 1605936374.7694516,
"unit_name": "second",
"unit_symbol": "s"
}
}
Python API Usage
Python-module documentation is available here.
Project
Github - github.com/ndejong/digital-multimeter
PyPI - pypi.python.org/pypi/digital-multimeter
ReadTheDocs - digital-multimeter.readthedocs.io
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