labnet

LabNet lets experiment programs anywhere on a lab network use instruments attached to other computers safely: one user at a time, through typed operations, with the instrument's own computer staying in charge of the hardware.

This package holds Central (users, the device directory, leases), the Lab PC runtime (serves instruments over gRPC), the client library, the driver tooling, and the labnet command. Instruments come from driver packages, such as labnet-sim; the web interface is labnet-control-center.

Install

A whole simulated lab on one computer:

pip install "labnet[central,lab-pc]" labnet-sim labnet-control-center
labnet dev up

Use an instrument

from labnet import LabClient
from labnet_sim import SimulatedWavemeter

central = LabClient.from_env()               # reads LABNET_ENV_FILE
meter = SimulatedWavemeter(client=central)   # leases the first available wavemeter
try:
    print(meter.read_wavelength(), "nm")
finally:
    meter.close()                              # releases the lease
    central.close()

Documentation

https://mill0851.github.io/labnet/: the Quickstart, writing a driver, deploying a lab, and the API reference.

LabNet is MIT licensed. Source: https://github.com/mill0851/labnet.