Bauer BSM-WS36A-H01-1311-0000 Python Interface and Modbus Tool

Overview

This package contains a Python 3 library and a command line tool for interacting with a BSM-WS36A-H01-1311-0000. Both allow you to explore the communication and common tasks like:

Reading data from registers
Setting parameters
Creating snapshots
Verifying a snapshot signature

So this package might come in handy for testing communication and integrating the meter in your environment.

The command line tool gets installed as bsmtool.

Prerequisites

Python 3
- We have tested it with 3.7 and 3.9
- See Prerequisites for details
pySunSpec
- As there is currently no package available at pypi.org, we integrated it as bauer_bsm.sunspec

Installation

You can install the latest release from GitHub:

$ pip3 install https://github.com/chargeITmobility/bsm-python/releases/download/release-0.11.1/bauer_bsm-0.11.1-py3-none-any.whl

For hands-on work of the code, clone this repository and perform a editable installation as follows:
```
$ pip3 install --user --editable .
```

Getting Help

Built-In Tool Help

To display the built-in help for the tool and general arguments use:

$ bsmtool --help

To get help for an individual subcommand, give --help after the subcommand. For example for help on creating and fetching snapshots use:

$ bsmtool get-snapshot --help

Online Examples and Documentation

This repository contains a comprehensive set of examples on using the BSM-WS36A and the BSM Tool in doc/examples.

The directory doc/modbus contains a Modbus model instance and register overview.

Finally, you could have a look in the product manuals of the BSM-WS36A:

FrankHitman/bsm-python