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Microcycler Python SDK

Python SDK for the Microcycler battery testing platform.

Status: Pre-alpha — API subject to change.

Installation

pip install microcycler

The package is a thin Python layer over a Rust core (core/ in the repository: the same code the Microcycler dashboard and the headless agent run), shipped as one prebuilt wheel per platform (Windows, macOS, Linux; Python 3.9+). pip install microcycler needs no compiler. Installing from a source checkout (pip install -e sdk) builds the core and needs a Rust toolchain (rustup.rs); without the compiled core the package falls back to a pure-Python implementation, which MICROCYCLER_BACKEND=python forces.

microcycler-agent import <credential> then microcycler-agent run uploads this network's licensed cyclers to your organization (see the remote-link documentation). It needs only the installed package.

Quickstart

Connect and read telemetry

import asyncio
from microcycler import Cycler

async def main():
    async with Cycler("192.168.1.100") as cycler:
        print(await cycler.identify())
        t = await cycler.get_telemetry()
        print(f"State:    {t.state}")
        print(f"Voltage:  {t.voltage:.3f} V")
        print(f"Current:  {t.current:.3f} A")
        print(f"Temp:     {t.temperature:.1f} °C")
        print(f"Capacity: {t.capacity_mah:.1f} mAh")

asyncio.run(main())

Discover cyclers on the network

import asyncio
from microcycler import Cycler, discover

async def main():
    # Listens for the discovery beacon on UDP 5002. The beacon is periodic
    # and unsolicited, so this is a collection window, not a deadline —
    # allow at least one beacon period (10 s by default).
    for dev in await discover():
        print(dev)                      # HADES-042 @ 169.254.10.5:5000 (standby)
        async with Cycler(dev.host, port=dev.port) as cycler:
            print(await cycler.get_life())

asyncio.run(main())

Stream live telemetry via UDP

from microcycler.streaming import CyclerStream

async def monitor():
    async with CyclerStream() as stream:
        async for telemetry in stream:
            print(telemetry.voltage, telemetry.current)

Build and run a recipe

from microcycler import Cycler
from microcycler.recipes import Recipe, CC, CV, Rest, Loop

recipe = (
    Recipe(name="Standard Formation")
    .add(CC(current=0.1, cutoff_voltage_high=4.2))
    .add(CV(voltage=4.2, limit_current_high=0.1, cutoff_current_low=0.02))
    .add(Rest(duration=1800))
    .add(CC(current=-0.2, cutoff_voltage_low=2.8))
    .add(Rest(duration=1800))
    .add(Loop(cycles=3))
)

async def run():
    async with Cycler("192.168.1.100") as cycler:
        await cycler.load_recipe(recipe)
        await cycler.start()

Recipe steps

Step Description
CC(current, cutoff_voltage_high, cutoff_voltage_low, cutoff_time, cutoff_capacity) Constant current. current is signed: positive = charge, negative = discharge.
CV(voltage, limit_current_high, cutoff_current_low, cutoff_time) Constant voltage
CP(power, cutoff_voltage, cutoff_time) Constant power
CR(resistance, cutoff_voltage, cutoff_time) Constant resistance
Rest(duration) Open-circuit rest
EIS(freq_start, freq_end, amplitude, points_per_decade) Impedance sweep
Loop(cycles) Repeat preceding steps N times
ACRipple(duration, dc_current, ac_amplitude, ac_freq, cutoff_temp) AC ripple excitation for calorimetry / thermal characterisation

License

MIT


Lifetime wear counters

Every board keeps an odometer in its EEPROM. Three independent axes, because a unit can be worn out along any one of them while the others look fine: mechanical (relay actuations), calendar (powered time) and electrical (charge through the output).

from microcycler import Cycler

async with Cycler("192.168.1.200") as cycler:
    life = await cycler.get_life()

    print(f"boots            {life.boot_count}")
    print(f"powered          {life.powered_hours:,.0f} h")
    print(f"throughput       {life.throughput_ah:,.1f} Ah")
    print(f"MAIN relay       {life.relay_main:,} closings")
    print(f"FAN relay        {life.relay_fan:,} closings")

    if not life.durable:
        print("WARNING: counters are not reaching the EEPROM")

These belong to the physical board, not to your database, so they survive a reinstall, an MCU swap, or the unit moving to another lab. There is deliberately no way to reset them — an odometer that can be wound back is not evidence of anything.

life.durable (i.e. write_errors == 0) is the field worth alerting on. A unit with a dead EEPROM still counts perfectly well in RAM and reports entirely plausible numbers; nothing else distinguishes a kept odometer from one that is lost at every power cut.

Counters are flushed at most once every few minutes to spare the part, so up to that much accrued wear is in RAM only. Before deliberately powering a unit down:

await cycler.flush_life()

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