Overview

The pySunSpec package provides objects and applications that support interaction with SunSpec compliant devices and documents. It can be run in most environments that support Python and is tested on Wndows 7, MAC OS X, and Ubuntu.

Features

Provides access to SunSpec Modbus RTU and TCP devices
High level object model allowing easy device scripting
Minimal dependencies for core package allowing it to run in more constrained Python environments
Runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Requirements

Python 2.4 - 2.7 (2.7 recommended for most uses)
pySerial

Installation

The installation instructions are written to utilize a command line. If using Windows you will want to open a command prompt window for the installation process. If on a Unix system use terminal and you may need to add sudo in front of the commands if encountering authorization errors.

Note: The installation guide will be showing the commands as if they were run in a Unix environment. On Windows the left most part of the command will look different (C:\> instead of $). Do not type $ as part of the command.

Python

If using Unix Python should already be installed whereas Python is not included in the standard Windows installation. To check to see if Python is installed type python into the command line. If it is installed you should enter a Python editor. To exit the editor type quit(). If successful you should see the following

$ python
Python 2.7.1 (r271:86832, Jul 31 2011, 19:30:53) 
[GCC 4.2.1 (Based on Apple Inc. build 5658) (LLVM build 2335.15.00)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>quit()

If Python did not show up you can acquire it from the Python Software Foundation's download page. Keep in mind this repository currently uses Python 2.7 and not any Python 3.X. Accept all the default settings during the installation.

If using Windows and just downloaded Python you need to set environment variables

Set the PATH environment variable to include directories that contain Python packages and scripts. The environment variable settings are at: Computer > System properties > Advanced system settings > Environment Variables.

In the System variables section add the following to the 'Path' variable (if using a version different than 2.7.x, adjust the string)
C:\Python27;C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\;C:\Python27\Scripts\;
If you would like to be able to execute Python scripts without specifying the '.py' in the script name, you can also add the '.PY' extension to the end of the 'PATHEXT' variable.

pySerial

To install the pySerial package, try using easy_install

$ easy_install -U pyserial

If easy install is not present on the system download the archive (.tar.gz) from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyserial (Note if on Windows, use the Windows installer option (pyserial-x.y-win32.exe) instead and move on to the next section). Unpack the archive, enter the pyserial-x.y directory and run the following

$ python setup.py install

pySunSpec

Note: If getting errors your sunspec/models folder may not have loaded during installation due to being a separate repository. Please use the following steps to ensure that the library is installed correctly.

If wanting the git repository you have to add the --recursive flag to get the submodule to clone as well
$ git clone --recursive https://github.com/sunspec/pysunspec.git

Download the pysunspec archive (.zip) from the pySunSpec Releases Page.

Unpack the archive, enter the pysunspec-x.y directory and run

$ python setup.py install

You can test the installation by opening a Command Prompt window and running the unittest discover command. You should see the results of the test execution with no test failures

$ python -m unittest discover -v sunspec

test_client_device (core.test.test_client.TestClientDevice) ... ok
test_sunspec_client_device_1 (core.test.test_client.TestClientDevice) ... ok
test_sunspec_client_device_3 (core.test.test_client.TestClientDevice) ... ok
test_data (core.test.test_data.TestData) ... ok
test_device_blocktype_not_equal (core.test.test_device.TestDevice) ... ok
test_device_common_len_65 (core.test.test_device.TestDevice) ... ok
test_device_constant_sf (core.test.test_device.TestDevice) ... ok
test_device_from_pics (core.test.test_device.TestDevice) ... ok
test_device_models_smdx (core.test.test_device.TestDevice) ... ok
test_device_modeltype (core.test.test_device.TestDevice) ... ok
test_device_modeltype_not_equal (core.test.test_device.TestDevice) ... ok
test_device_pointtype (core.test.test_device.TestDevice) ... ok
test_device_pointtype_not_equal (core.test.test_device.TestDevice) ... ok
test_device_to_pics (core.test.test_device.TestDevice) ... ok
test_device_value_get (core.test.test_device.TestDevice) ... ok
test_device_value_set (core.test.test_device.TestDevice) ... ok
test_modbus_client_device_rtu_read (core.test.test_modbus_client.TestModbusClient) ... ok
test_modbus_client_device_rtu_write (core.test.test_modbus_client.TestModbusClient) ... ok
test_modbus_client_device_tcp_read (core.test.test_modbus_client.TestModbusClient) ... ok
test_modbus_client_device_tcp_write (core.test.test_modbus_client.TestModbusClient) ... ok
test_modbus_mbmap_from_xml_element (core.test.test_modbus_mbmap.TestModbusMap) ... ok
test_modbus_mbmap_from_xml_file (core.test.test_modbus_mbmap.TestModbusMap) ... ok

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 22 tests in 0.634s

OK

$

You should now be ready to use the pySunSpec package.

Documentation

The documentation can be found on the Read the Docs site.

Questions, Bugs, Feature Requests

If you have a question, think you've found a bug or have a feature request please open an issue on the Github Project Page

vivekhpandya/pysunspec