abibas/README.md

Purpose

This is a testing tool for one proprietary enterprise app which in turn handles aviation lights on top of the wind turbines for aviation safety. While working on that app it is not always possible to use real devices (so called light controllers).

Thus the purpose of this tool to help with development via simulating those devices. Communication with controllers is built upon MODBUS protocol via TCP/IP.

The name abibas is more like a joke implying that it is not real devices but the simulated ones. The tool consists of two parts - simulator (implemented using pyModbusTCP) and UI interface to it for configuration and monitoring (implemented using Flask)

Type abibas in terminal to run the tool after installation Type Ctrl+C to cancel (or stop) the tool After stopping it a table will be printed out with some stats info

Requires python3.10 and above

Licensed under GPLv3 license

Setup & debug

• clone the repo and cd to the cloned dir
• python3.11 -m venv .venv
• source .venv/bin/activate
• pip install build
• python -m build
• pip install -e .
• pip list (pip show abibas, pip uninstall abibas, etc)

At this stage the package is installed in editable mode, to run it in debug mode: ,

• abibas-debug

or in normal mode:

• abibas

If in debug mode changes made to the Flask app will be applied automatically at runtime, for the changes in simulator though the tool has to be restarted.

main module can be manipulated for debugging purposes as well

Before releasing

• pip install twine
• twine check dist/*
• twine upload --repository-url https://test.pypi.org/legacy/ dist/*